Characters Welcome 6: An International Sticker Art Show

We’re really excited to announce the call for submissions for Characters Welcome 6: An International Sticker Art Show. We love the community of sticker artists that meet, exchange ideas and leave behind tokens of their amazing art here. Characters Welcome celebrates that community and reaches out to artists all over the world to show their best hand drawn and printed sticker art. Some photos from past Characters Welcome shows can be seen on our Instagram.

All are welcome to contribute to Characters Welcome 6. First time artists will be shown side by side with the seasoned titans. Stickers need not be character based. We prefer hand drawn stickers but printed, silk screened & collaged stickers are also very much welcome.

The stickers will be displayed in a show here on Friday September 15, 2017 from 7pm – 2am (21+) and Saturday September 16 from noon – 4pm (all ages). The boards with the compiled stickers as well as surplus sticker packs will be available for sale. We’ll have some very special raffle items and rad day of show surprises. 100% of ALL sales will go to benefit inspiring youth local arts programs.

We hope you will share your sticker art with us and the world through Characters Welcome and spread the word about the show to your fellow artists, friends and family. The creative exchange and collaboration of this show is at the very heart of what we love to do here at Mom’s.

The deadline for submissions is September 1, 2017. Please include your artist name, any Instagram or social media handles and as many stickers as you’d like! Submissions will not be returned.

Please mail all submissions to:

Tattooed Mom

P.O. Box 63951

Philadelphia, PA 19147 U.S.A.

Local artists may also drop off their stickers at Tattooed Mom,  530 South Street, Philadelphia.

For more information feel free to contact us at [email protected]

Hope to see you all at Characters Welcome 6!

Monument Lab: Mural Arts fundraiser

Help Mural Arts Philadelphia beautify our community while you party!  They’re in the final days of the Monument Lab Kickstarter fundraiser, a public art and civic research project that explores the modern concept of a monument for Philadelphia. This fundraiser will help raise money for a series of temporary installations by local and international artists to be put up in public spaces across the city, accompanied by interactive pop-up “laboratories” for creative conversations.

20% of our sales during this event will go towards the Monument Lab.  But, you can send in an additional donation if you’d like!

FREE ARTS & CRAFTS!
Don’t miss our delicious Brunch menu, with speciality cocktails only available Sat & Sun until 4:30pm!

+VIBES+ art exhibition

Come check out this pop-up group show which celebrates queer artists, artists of color & female artists!

Featuring new works by:
Dina Volpe
Lexi Bella
Reginald Pean
N’ketiah Brakohiapa
Hannah Gaudite
Tifani Truelove
Holly Farrell
Josh Graupera
Larissa Karan
Quinn McNichol
Caitlin Herrschaft
Matthew Guiliano
Madeleine Dietrich
Mia Buonaiuto

All proceeds benefit The Black and Brown Workers Collective & The Attic Youth Center.

ONE NIGHT ONLY!
Half off drafts 5-7pm & 10-11pm

Pizza Performance Art Showcase

THIS is the Pizza Performance Art Showcase that you never knew you needed!

Join in on the merriment as artists and performers pay homage to this perfect food of the gods, all the while supporting a great cause, the PMA Bike Ride, a band of bikers who give pizza to the homeless in Philadelphia.

Performers:
Pizza Wolf
Cheesus Crust (ruthless)
Lulu Blue
Lyla Rose
Giselle Over
Fenris
Iguana B. Lyzard

Pizza themed shirts available by Mae Rose.

Pizza art by Brittany Pezzilo

Featuring a SURPRISE host!

FREE arts & crafts downstairs all night.
$2 Pabst Blue Ribbon 16oz. pounders and 1/2 price tater tots after 7pm.
Half off all drafts from 5-7pm and 10-11pm!

The Future Show: fundraiser

This fundraiser, for the upcoming art exhibition THE FUTURE SHOW, features the work of up and coming artists from Philadelphia and Brazil.  Money raised at this event will go towards funding this singular exhibition as well as supplementing the artist’s materials.

Come get some amazing ART OF THE FUTURE in their raffle and art auction.  Unique stickers, prints, pins, and sculpture will also be available for sale.  Be sure to check out the polaroid booth to create your own work of art!

Art is constantly in motion so….LET’S MOVE FORWARD!  Experience the future RIGHT NOW!

Featuring artwork by:
Jeremy Sims
Luiza Cardenuto
Patrick Dias
Marina Pedrosa
Cara Lucia
Matty Geez

50¢ pierogi until 10pm.
Half off all drafts 5-7 & 10-11pm
Try our specialty cocktail, “The Time Machine”, only available tonight!  Faber Gin, Canton Ginger Liquor, Raspberry liquor, and club soda.

MAD HOUSE 4: Johnson-Valenzuela, Schwartz, Myers, Colavita, Sutherland

Mad House Magazine presents a melodious showcase of poetic artistry in anticipation of Mad House Vol 4: REVOLT!

Gathered beautifully as it pupates from frantic emailing to layout stages, they will be selling preorders of the issue in order to have enough capitalist labor coupons to print copies in gorgeous full-color for everyone who wants one (& hopefully a few extra for people of the future who don’t know it exists yet).

Enjoy the perceptive, ungovernable work of these [5] poets:

+Sara Schwartz

+Gina Myers

+Angelo Colavita

+Marissa Johnson-Valenzuela

+Kirwyn Sutherland

Help us out by dropping in $10 for your copy and you’ll have our love and we’ll have a magazine waiting for you on reading night ♥

+Plus+ get a free copy of A SLENDER VOLUME little anthology zine! 🙂

Doors at 7:30, Reading to start by 8
50¢ pierogi from noon – 10pm
Half off all drafts 10-11pm

If/When/How: Happy Hour fundraiser

Join Temple Law If/When/How for a Happy Hour fundraiser to benefit Women’s Medical Fund!

WMF is an amazing organization based in our home city of Philadelphia. They provide emergency financial support, counseling, and casework to low-income women and teens in Southeastern PA who have made the decision to terminate a pregnancy but do not have the resources to pay for a safe and effective abortion.

Help us provide funding for women in need.  All proceeds from the raffle ($5 to enter!) go to WMF, plus you get the chance to take home some amazing prizes!

$4 Hamburgers & Vegan Burgers until midnight (Try our Burger of the Month!)
$2 Narragansett Lager Tall Boys all day
Half off all drafts 5-7 & 10-11pm

Arts & Drafts: Crafting Happy Hour

Beer and crafting, together at last!  Come eat, drink, and craft the night away with Arts & Drafts!  This time they’ll have the supplies to create your own kaleidoscope or make a variety of projects using colorful duct tape.

25% of bar proceeds during the event will benefit Philadelphia’s Magic Gardens.

Free crafts!
Half off our full Veggie Menu. Noon – 10pm (no take out)
Half off all drafts from 5-7 & 10-11pm

Tire Fire presents: Diamond, Steinberg, Sanders, Windhauser

Tire Fire is back with another round of amazing authors. This month, you’ll be able to listen as Jason Diamond, Nicole Steinberg, Justin Sanders, and Brad Windhauser read selections of their published work.

They’ll also be collecting donations for the Nationalities Service Center, NSC, who are the largest non-sectarian organization in the Greater Philadelphia area which provides comprehensive services in the areas of language access and proficiency, legal protections and remedies, community transition and integration, access to health and wellness, and job readiness training to immigrants and refugees.

50¢ pierogi from noon – 10pm
Half off all drafts 5-7 & 10-11pm

UArts Photography: Senior Thesis Fundraiser

Come out to support the senior class Photography students at UArts as they raise money for their Senior Show.  Student art will be on display as well as a selection of prints that will be available for purchase.  Help the senior class put on a spectacular senior show while you enjoy the very best photography that UArts has to offer!

A portion of all food and drink sales during the event will be donated to the Senior Show fund, so bring your friends and have fun for a great cause!