OFF SITE!
Oakland Museum and Garden
4116 S Lake Park Ave Chicago, IL, United States
Aliyah Jones w/ Visual Installation by Dark Matter Resident Avin Hannah Smith | Saturday, July 12th 2025 - 6:00pm - 8:00pm
Indigo at The Garden will be our second Outreach event of 2025! Featuring live music by the amazing Aliyah Jones, and an Interactive art installation and work by Dark Matter Resident Avin Hannah Smith This event is FREE to all attending, highlighting the amazing space and work of artists within the Oakland neighborhood.
Bring a blanket, a chair and your family to enjoy some sounds and beautiful visuals!
$FREE$
Artist Bios
Aliyah Jones - Aliyah Jones is a vocalist, composer, and curator from the southside of Chicago. Rooted in the traditions of Black Music and the deep study of Black Aesthetics, her art moves with purpose—telling stories that seek truth and connection.
Aliyah is the founder and host of Indigo Sessions, a show series meant to highlight the creations of Black Women and Black Queer creatives. Indigo Sessions was born from Aliyah’s personal longing—for safety, for kinship, for a place where We could show up fully, without apology. It has found home in beloved spaces like Dorothy and The.BlkRoom, continuing to grow as a living archive of community, artistry, and liberation.
Aliyah is currently a resident artist at Epiphany Center for the Arts, where she continues to expand her work across performance and curation.
Instagram: @indigoesblues
Avin Hannah Smith - Avin HannahSmith makes work that deals with color theory and the examination of spatial relativity. An analytical and organic approach brings about compositions of plateaus, edges, and forms.
He is a multidisciplinary artist searching for truth within this world. My current work is about how BIPOC creates grids of societal understanding to sort through systems of oppression that have been forced upon them. The grids symbolize language, histories, and lineage of people that aim to create a space for themselves within the capital impositions. Everyday routines, happenstance and ripples of societal and historical events are categorized deep within pockets of autonomous spiritual locations. Spiritual geo-locational mapping is what interests me about locations and Afro-Identity.
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