Social Glue07.03 2026
The Demented Still Life at Space!
Next Wednesday, July 8th, The Demented Still Life returns! Join us Space1026 at 6:30 pm to enjoy a fun filled night of art making. All you can draw for only $10!
The Demented Still life is a unique drawing experience that invites artists of all skill levels to create original works from a still life curated by artist Liz Krick. Each session will offer a new still life arrangement filled with curiosities and beautiful objects. Participants are required to bring their own art supplies but are welcome to work in any medium.
06.25 2026
Dream Here Now! Saturday, Jun 27th 7:00pm – 11:00pm
DREAM HERE NOW! art salon
Drop in & dream out this SATURDAY, June 27th at 7pm, at Space 1026 in the art yard.
Through a night of mystical transfiguration and immersive experience we will find
a consensus vision to focus our collective manifestation.
To open the portal and guide us through, free form music and poetry by:
Joybender
Alongmirewriter
Hudson River
Looter featuring Kara Khan
emceed by Ma Ja Ka and The Dream Poets
“Enter the Dream” with Apolinaria
“Mystical Mimeograph” led by The Ethereal Society
Doors 7pm, show 7:30pm
$10-20 suggested for performers. All ages!
Space 1026 is located at 844 N. Broad Street
We want YOU! to believe in your dreams!
Dream Here Now! is an attempt to navigate the collective subconscious through a prompt of interactive art installation and immersive experience. Taking inspiration from Acid Tests held by the Merry Pranksters, visionary salons curated by Amiri Baraka, and studies on consciousness led by Richard Alpert, Dream Here Now! will offer a conduit for our generation to have a breakthrough. With America about to celebrate its 250th birthday, the time is ripe to gather together, empower the Dreamers, and envision another way forward. This fresh invocation in the series will feature guided meditations in the form of live music and performance conducive to encourage the audience to activate their imagination. Together we will identify common dreams among our generation and how to proceed to mutually achieve them.
If you’re unable to attend in person, please still feel invited to join us in the dreamtime. All it takes is closing your eyes and counting 1, 2, 3 to find us in the night and focus your light.
Excited to connect with you all!
06.01 2026
Social Glue
June 5-27
This Friday, June 5th from 6-10pm, come celebrate the opening of Social Glue, a collaborative show with the Education, Philosophy, and Religion branch of the Free Library of Philadelphia! Did you know you can do papier maché for free at the library?? And that’s not all! They also do comics clubs, photo meet-ups, poetry and more! This show will be highlighting creatives within the community that joined in on the workshops, along with the artists that host them! Flier image artist: Henry T Crane.
Space1026
844 N. Broad Street
Philadelphia PA
04.29 2026
Dan Angel, Kate Ferencz, Lauren Poor
May 1st – 29th 2026
Opening Reception: Friday May 1st 2026 6-10pm
Space1026 is proud to present Angels to Some, a group exhibition of ceramics and drawings by Dan Angel, Kate Ferencz and Lauren Poor. Each of these artists alludes to other worldly creatures in their work that seem to occupy a space between realities, with ambiguous intentions toward us.
Starting from photographs of ephemeral and delicate foam sculptures, Dan Angel’s detailed conte crayon drawings document the equally monstrous and humorous visages revealed as these structures shift between states of matter and inevitably collapse. His process is slow and methodological, the drawings built up of countless added and subtracted layers of crayon dust in a herculean effort to make solid and permanent the airy and amorphous.
Kate Ferencz has chosen to depict the divine in an urgent and visionary manner. Using ink and shimmering graphite pencil, spontaneous expressionist marks are scrawled across a prolific number and variety of notebook paper types. Beings are depicted with inhuman flexibility, morphing between animal and angelic bodies. Twisting fingers create alien sign gestures. Sometimes the drawings are even roughly torn out directly from spiral books, conveying the impression that these fleeting visions and messages must be transcribed with utmost haste with whatever materials are nearby before they are lost forever.
Lauren Poor communicates presence through absence. Her ceramics of whimsical architectural marvels could be seen as buildings for miniature invisible beings, or models for enormous landmarks yet to be realized. Conceptualized as the buildings of the fictional city of Asobibapolis, a place where play and imagination are prioritized in how things are made, these denizens are given character through the many winding stairways, secret gardens, and hidden alcoves where they can sit and dream that are seen throughout the metropolis.
Just like the elusive creatures alluded to in their artworks, each of these artists have maintained secretive long running studio practices that are rarely shared with the general public. Space1026 is proud to bring these works to the light.
Space1026
844 N. Broad Street
Philadelphia PA
image :
Lauren Poor, Moon Lovers Mansion, 2025
electric fired ceramic, 21 x 12 x 6.5 in.
04.12 2026
Amethyst Gate Literary Art Series 4/17/2026
Amethyst Gate Literary Arts Series presents featured Artists:
JASON MITCHELL is a poet living in Philadelphia. He is the author of Solar Flâneur (Asterion Projects, 2022) and recently completed editing The Collected Poems of George Stanley, forthcoming in Fall 2026 from The Center for Poetry & Poetics. Since 2013, he has organized and hosted the poetry reading series Frank O’Hara’s Last Lover. With Ryan Dobran, he co-founded and runs the small press Eternal Sections.
DEEPAK KUMAR PAREEK is a light classical singer and composer from the state of Rajasthan, India. His music covers a wide spectrum of styles: ghazals (romantic poetry), bhajans (devotional songs), kirtan, and classic film songs. Deepak first studied with his father, Shri P.N. Vyas, and later with Ustad R.F. Dagar, Ustad Moinuddin Khan and Shri Mohinderjit Singh. He has also been studying with Khayal classical singer Mrs. Kankana Banerjee, a disciple of the legendary vocalist Ustad Amir Khan. Deepak is accomplished on several musical instruments, including harmonium, tamboura, guitar, and keyboard. He is co-director of the East-West School of Music at Ananda Ashram and is currently studying and performing with world-renowned vocalist Kankana Banerjee,a student of Amir Khan. Ghazals are primarily romantic poetry, celebrating the beauty of love and lovers.
THE ELUSIVE MUSIC mixes unorthodox guitar and violin composition, moody inging/growling/screaming, and audience participation with custom-built instruments and visuals. The elusive music’s songs reflect on personal, emotional, and relationship issues, social/philosophical/political topics, and incorporate themes and language from nature, science, and technology. The Elusive Music has performed at The Fire, The Nail, Milkboy South Street, The Pouch, West Philly, and Roxyunk Porchfests, and at over 200 open mics in over a dozen Philadelphia venues since 2021.
04.02 2026
Zotz!
Coming to SPACE 1026, Zotz!
A little 14 person show featuring art by:
Tony Coleman
Lena Kolb
Bill Thelen
Annson Conaway
Mark Rice
Woodley White
Eva Killinger
Jess Parke
Lance Simmons
Isaac Lin
Bill Nace
Mel Kadel
Dwayne Boone
Andrew Jeffrey Wright
Zotz!
April 3rd – 25th, 2026
Opening Reception, Friday April 3rd, 6PM – 10PM
Matinee Event, Saturday April 18th, 1PM – 5PM featuring
Stiff Curls
Tony Coleman
Woodley White
New Thingz Comedy Show, Friday April 24th, 8PM – 9:30PM
Image by Tony Coleman
See you there!
02.24 2026
Parallel Paths: The Long Ride Home
On March 6, Parallel Paths: The Long Ride Home opens at Space 1026 from 5–9 PM. The exhibition features Vinetta Miller, an artist at the progressive art studio Center for Creative Works, alongside Pulitzer Prize–winning photographer Ron Tarver.
Miller reimagines and interprets photographs from Tarver’s book, The Long Ride Home: Black Cowboys in America. The works by Tarver and Miller are displayed side by side, inviting viewers to reflect on history, representation, and the enduring legacy of Black cowboys in America.
02.09 2026
100 Years of Black Women’s Basketball
On View February 13-March 1, 2026
This exhibition highlights the Black, queer, triumphant legacy of Black Women ballers whose shoulders the activism, athleticism, and passion of today’s players stand on.
More programming by:
@mouthofrain @businessofbasketballpod @phillyqueerhoopers and @chefduncan_ @wholisticart and friends!
Opening
Friday, February 13
7-9pm
Space 1026
844 North Broad Street
Philadelphia, PA
gallery@space1026.com
01.22 2026
Dream Here Now 1/23/2026
The Time is always NOW!
to manifest the future!
Mark your calendar & come through!
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01.15 2026
Amethyst Gate Jan 15th!
https://amethystgate.com/
Amethyst Gate returns with an evening of live performance featuring Will O Washuu, Nicholas DeBoer, Brenda Iijima, Alex Smith, and Elizabeth Kirwin. Plus — an open mic for anyone who wants to join in. Performances can be spoken, sounded, read, improvised, or hard to define. If you’ve been looking for a low-pressure place to try something out, this is it. 🔮 Next Amethyst Gate — Thursday, January 15, 2025 Doors 6:30 · Performances 7–10 PM 📍 Space 1026 · Philadelphia 🕯 Free + open to all 🔗 More info & details: amethystgate.com