Upstairs @ TMoms

20 Years of Street Art Culture

From the first tag to the latest wheat paste, upstairs at TMom’s has been home to a rich history of local & international street art. This is an ever changing gallery: an un-curated & spontaneous outpouring of creativity by local & traveling artists and the countless visitors who leave their unique mark here nightly.

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Two Brothers & 5000 Umbrellas

The birth of the upstairs as a vibrant art space is in part tied to a 1999 exhibition by brothers Noah & Nathan Rice. That year the Brothers Rice brought their umbrella wheat pastes we’d been admiring around South Street to Mom’s. All 5000 of them.

Tmoms Sticky Art Machine

Sticker art has been an important part of the upstairs at Mom’s since day one. So it’s a huge honor (and a lot of fun) to be the home of the Sticky Art Machine.

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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

Tire Fire Presents: McAllister, Scanlon, Grass, and Kochman

After what will certainly go down as one of the longest and most painful Januarys in American history, TIRE FIRE is back with some great readers, new books, and 50¢ pierogis!

Tom McAllister, Elizabeth Scanlon, Barry Grass, and Laura Kochman will be reading selections from their most recent work.

Donations will be collected for the Women’s Medical Fund, who provides 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.