Friday, May 16 | 7-9pm
FREE
Join Sarasota artists for the opening of the Creative Nexus Summit. The evening will include a pop-up Artist Market with local artists and vendors showcasing their arts, crafts, and other goods.
This will be the opening night for Jevon Brown and Amaya Glover’s ‘Cuttin’ Up’ installation. “Cuttin Up Series” is an interactive, interdisciplinary art installation focused on themes of community resilience, and entrepreneurship. Cuttin ‘Up Series aims to amplify community and storytelling. Using the barbershop as a space to launch these conversations around community resilience, economic freedom, community education, and entrepreneurship. Centering the stories of barber shop owners, barbers, local communities of color. The installation will be composed of Brown’s originally designed textiles and barbershop ‘artifacts’. From hats, to clippers, to combs, all these ordinary objects found within the barbershop are symbolic to tell the story.
Music by DJ Bass God.