July 29 8pm
The Art Room Studio
July 29 8pm
The Art Room Studio
July 29 8pm
The Art Room Studio
STUDIO WORKS
October 24th 2026 ⎯ 7pm ⎯ The Art Room Studio
Rayne and Tamar Guntherz
October 24th
doors at 6:30pm
show at 7pm
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 tor breen and our programming organizer Shannon Brooks.
Black-and-white portrait of a Black femme with a long, tapered afro, clear-framed glasses, and a septum ring, leaning against a concrete wall and gazing off-camera. They wear an oversized jacket with their hands loosely clasped. Photography by Enoch Purnell. Editing by Gregory Bissell
Black-and-white portrait of a Black femme with a long, tapered afro, clear-framed glasses, and a septum ring, leaning against a concrete wall and gazing off-camera. They wear an oversized jacket with their hands loosely clasped. Photography by Enoch Purnell. Editing by Gregory Bissell
Accessibility:
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All performances will take place in The Art Room Studio. 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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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 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.
Black-and-white portrait of a Black femme with a long, tapered afro, clear-framed glasses, and a septum ring, leaning against a concrete wall and gazing off-camera. They wear an oversized jacket with their hands loosely clasped. Photography by Enoch Purnell. Editing by Gregory Bissell
Black-and-white portrait of a Black femme with a long, tapered afro, clear-framed glasses, and a septum ring, leaning against a concrete wall and gazing off-camera. They wear an oversized jacket with their hands loosely clasped. Photography by Enoch Purnell. Editing by Gregory Bissell
Rayne
The Book, or A Narrative of the Most Remarkable Particulars in the Life of Andromeda, an African Princess, as Related by Herself.
Andromeda is an Ethiopian princess, chained to a rock for a crime she did not commit. In the Greek myth, rescue arrives in the form of a man who has just beheaded a woman. In The Book, Andromeda refuses to make rescue the condition of her freedom altogether. Andromeda saves herself. In conversation with historic slave narratives, The Book continues the radical act of self-authorship and testimony. Andromeda places her archive of objective victimhood in our hands—her Peers. But unlike slave narratives, written to persuade white audiences of Black humanity, Andromeda does not make a case for hers, and instead forges a path forward— how survivors of rape and other violent crime can reclaim agency, power, and authorship over their own lives. Broadly, The Book also asks how we can respond to harms, big and small, without reproducing domination, disposability, or punishment. Part-solo-performance, part-church, The Book doulas both individual and collective catharsis, locates abolition as communal practice, and asks what we must destroy, build, and become together since prisons are not the answer.
Artist Bio:
Named by PhillyVoice as “one of 18 young Philadelphians shaping the future of the city’s creative class,” Rayne is a multidisciplinary artist from Southwest Philadelphia and founder of the Barrymore Award-winning Upstream Performance Collaborative. Rayne is an Independence Foundation Fellowship in the Arts recipient, F. Otto Haas Award finalist, and two-time Leeway Foundation Art & Change Grant recipient. Their work has been supported by The Pew Center for Arts and Heritage, The National Theatre Project, The National Endowment for the Arts, and more. Rayne is a member of Ring of Keys, The Foundry at PlayPenn, New Pages at Azuka Theatre, and a proud graduate of W.E.B. Du Bois Movement School for Abolition and Reconstruction. Rayne uses all pronouns and is also known as Angela Bey. Learn more at angelabey.com Instagram: @tallblackcreative and @raynetheplaywright
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Tamar Guntherz
Artist Bio:
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