Continuing my ongoing collaboration with artist/performer Marvin Tate, we’ll explore shades of gut-bucket swamp blues and related textures. For this performance we’ll be joined by pianist/vocalist Sharon Udoh.

Retreat at Currency Exchange, one of Theaster Gates’s several projects on the 300 block of E. Garfield Blvd., also known as the Arts Block, has many façades besides the wall revealing the building’s past as an actual place to cash checks and pay utility bills.  A café and artist working space by day, Retreat at Currency Exchange moonlights as a bar on Thursdays and Fridays for happy hour, from 5pm to its 9pm close.

If Starbucks exists for some as the “third place” between home and work, Retreat exists for artists and members of the community as a homegrown third place between home and gallery.