July 29 8pm
The Art Room Studio
July 29 8pm
The Art Room Studio
July 29 8pm
The Art Room Studio
STUDIO WORKS
October 10th 2025 ⎯ 8 pm ⎯ The Art Room Studio
Featuring: Lu Donovan, Julia Havard, Evelyn Langley
OCTOBER 10th
doors at 7:45
show at 8pm
The Art Room Studio: 2329 s 3rd st. - 2nd fl
$15 - $35 • pay at door
no one turned away for lack of funds
Studio Works is an informal performance series for local artists to share work in any stage of their process. Artists are given studio space and complete full agency over how and what they share.
Artists are given a fixed rate and all proceeds go into a Studio Works pool that support future Studio Works programs.
Special thanks to our production manager Christina Gesualdi and our programming organizer Shannon Brooks.
Accessibility:
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We ask audience members to wear a mask and to not come to show if they are sick. Performers may or may not be wearing masks while performing. LIMITED N95 masks will be provided at the door.
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There will be extra time between each performance to give people a chance to move, to meet their access needs, and give space for new parents to take care of their loved ones.
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The first performance will take place in the parking lot of The Art Room Studio, the second performance will take place in the downstairs hallway with seating outside in the parking lot, the third performance will take place upstairs in The Art Room Studio with a baby monitor set outside.
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The Art Room Studio is located in a building with a 4-step stoop and is on the 2nd floor of the building. There is no elevator.
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There is a single stall gender neutral bathroom in the basement of the building.
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There is no onsite parking! Please give yourself extra time to find street parking. The studio is close to the 57 bus route, and about a 20 minute walk from the BSL Snyder stop.
A white trans dancer is photoshopped into a painting of two cherubs holding a strange mask, all three beings are looking toward an old man who stretches his hand out toward the cluster. The painting is in the sky, maybe heaven. photo from clay practice, Shannon Brooks. Photographer: Christipher Postlewaite; painting from
Angels cascade from above through dusk. Intersperesed are two figures, falling and posing through the sky amongst the angel. Small photos from clay practice, Shannon Brooks. Photographer: Christipher Postlewaite; Sculpture from Museo e Certosa di San Martino Small photos from clay practice, Shannon Brooks. Photographer: Christipher Postlewaite; Sculpture from Museo e Certosa di San Martino
A white trans dancer is photoshopped into a painting of two cherubs holding a strange mask, all three beings are looking toward an old man who stretches his hand out toward the cluster. The painting is in the sky, maybe heaven. photo from clay practice, Shannon Brooks. Photographer: Christipher Postlewaite; painting from
Lu Donovan
O Dio, O Dio, O Dio… O Dio, O Dio. calling sounds of the past forward, we get caught in the loop of ancestralized beings - saints, students, selves. genesised as a joke about writing an album, this piece is now an iteration of lu’s sound performance project. what’s here could emerge as a music video, a pop persona, or an invitation to the Vatican. with efforts to find sustenance in repetition, we loop backward to change direction.
Artist Bio:
Lu Donovan is a dance artist whose work threads between anatomy, performance, music, ancestral reclamation, catholic magic and resource redistribution. His creative practice prioritizes pleasure and researches strategies of queer-ing all subjects he straddles. He plays with other trans artists to build widening worlds in which bodies can pump up, relax down, or find the sweetest way their hips might move. Lu collaborates closely with designer Micah Lockman-Fine and has shown work at the Icebox Project Space, Fringe Arts, Headlong and Vox Populi and taught through the Arts League, Mascher Space Cooperative, and Philly Dance Share. For this iteration Lu Donovan will be joined by collaborator Shannon Brooks.
Lu will be joined by collaborator Shannon Brooks
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White nonbinary femme sits nude except for thigh high black boots on the edge of a full bathtub, looking surprised and perturbed and coverthing themself with a laptop. They wear sunglasses and have large glitter tears painted on their cheeks. photo credit: Elya Piazza
White nonbinary femme sits nude except for thigh high black boots on the edge of a full bathtub, looking surprised and perturbed and coverthing themself with a laptop. They wear sunglasses and have large glitter tears painted on their cheeks. photo credit: Elya Piazza
Julia Havard
they/them
“In(fertility) pieces” puts “us” in “uterus.” Part repro gossip, disability history and mournful line-dance, “In(fertility)” is a hormonal movement rant about the gendered mandates of fertility medicine, cult-leader clinic directors, and the revival of eugenic ideas about reproduction. You’re invited to dance with me about the impossibility of grieving hope and celebrate the queer crip art of building all kinds of family.
CONTENT WARNING: Fertility journey including loss, eugenics, discussion and images of uterus and ovaries
Artist Bio:
Julia Havard (they/them) is a nonbinary white queer disabled access worker, writer, artist, and educator. They work with language, dance, and ceramics to create gentle movement monsters and are a proud member of the disability art and mutual aid collective Hook&Loop. They hold a PhD from UC Berkeley in Performance Studies, focusing on queer disability arts, and are a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of California Davis in American Studies.
Julia will be joined by collaborators/ backup dancers: Elya Piazza (they/them) and Carmel Gordon (they/them)
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Evelyn is crouched in darkness, clutching and illuminated by a tangled bundle of lightbulbs and thick black electrical cord. photo credit: joseph ahmed
Evelyn is crouched in darkness, clutching and illuminated by a tangled bundle of lightbulbs and thick black electrical cord. photo credit: joseph ahmed
Evelyn Langley
(she/her)
a movement collage of my body's knowings: earth and birth. marking and mush. dirt and light. crumbling and holding and smudging.
Artist Bio:
Evelyn Langley is a farmer and multi-disciplinary artist in Philadelphia, exploring the deeply relational practices of art-making and land-tending with intention, steadfastness, improvisation, and playfulness. She is a co-owner of Dirtbaby Farm, an urban farm cooperative in Philadelphia growing fresh food for local artists, parents, and children.
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