Upcoming events.
On The Rox: LIGHT
Join the ILLUMINUS Roxbury cohort as we explore LIGHT. See artists’ interpretations and experimentations, and participate in an activity to discover what light means to you.
On The Rox sessions are monthly events when we invite you into our yearlong creative process of developing experiential multimedia artworks inspired and created by Roxbury. The sessions will culminate in a public art festival in Roxbury in October 2025.
The ILLUMINUS Roxbury cohort includes LandMine, Mel Sanon, Najee Janey, and Phree.
On The Rox: Collaboration & Process
Join the ILLUMINUS Roxbury cohort as we explore COLLABORATION & PROCESS. See artists’ interpretations and experimentations, and participate in an activity to discover what these concepts mean to you.
On The Rox sessions are monthly events when we invite you into our yearlong creative process of developing experiential multimedia artworks inspired and created by Roxbury. The sessions will culminate in a public art festival in Roxbury in October 2025.
The ILLUMINUS Roxbury cohort includes LandMine, Mel Sanon, Najee Janey, and Phree.
On The Rox: History
Join the ILLUMINUS Roxbury cohort as we explore HISTORY. See artists’ interpretations and experimentations, and participate in an activity to discover what history means to you.
On The Rox sessions are monthly events when we invite you into our yearlong creative process of developing experiential multimedia artworks inspired and created by Roxbury. The sessions will culminate in a public art festival in Roxbury in October 2025.
The ILLUMINUS Roxbury cohort includes LandMine, Mel Sanon, Najee Janey, and Phree.
On The Rox: Color
Join the ILUMINUS Roxbury cohort as we explore the many meanings and expressions of color. See how each artist is interpreting colors into dance, spoken word, music, and abstract painting. Finally, discover what color you are and contribute to determining the color of Roxbury.
On The Rox sessions are monthly events when we invite you into our yearlong creative process of developing experiential multimedia artworks inspired and created by Roxbury. The sessions will culminate in a public art festival in Roxbury in October 2025.
The ILLUMINUS Roxbury cohort includes LandMine, Mel Sanon, Najee Janey, and Phree.
Cancel Violence: Artists Speak Projecting Peace
The Museum of the National Center of Afro-American Artists (NCAAA) announces ARTISTS SPEAK PROJECTING PEACE, a bold extension of the current exhibition CANCEL VIOLENCE: ARTISTS SPEAK.
Free and open to the public, CANCEL VIOLENCE: ARTISTS SPEAK PROJECTING PEACE is in collaboration with ILLUMINUS and FPoint Productions. It is comprised of projected images from the exhibition intermixed with video clips of artists talking about causes of violence and solutions. It intends to guide communities toward social healing. The projections will be on the exterior facade of the museum at dusk thus providing one of the earliest grand scale, artistic screening events on a Roxbury building. It will be a must see!
Preceding the outdoor screening, CANCEL VIOLENCE: ARTISTS SPEAK PROJECTING PEACE will present Love, Queens Who Suffer From Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, an original choreo-poem written and compiled by Jamila Batts Capitman and Heather Thomas. Directed by Capitman, Love, Queens was inspired by Ntozake Shange’s For Colored Girls Who Have Consider Suicide When the Rainbow Is Enuf. It explores the impact of violence on communities through dramatic, poetic monologues. A discussion with the playwright, artists and commentary by Chaplain Clementina Chéry of the Louis D. Brown Peace Institute follows.
The exhibition and related programs are funded through the Mayor’s Office of Arts and Culture’s Un-Monument INITIATIVE with a grant from the Mellon Foundation.
Dorchester Neighborhood night
Join ILLUMINUS Dorchester artists as they put the finishing touches on their immersive new works