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Spice up your Sunday brunch at home with an out of this world DJ set by Saucy Lady. Cook special weekly recipes while getting down to live music from local DJs. 

Saucy chickpeas on toast

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Spice up your Sunday brunch at home with our new Instagram live series featuring DJ Slick Vick. Cook special weekly recipes while getting down to live music from local DJs. 

Mushroom, Leek, and Fontina Frittata

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Spice up your Mothers Day Sunday brunch with a live DJ set with Claude Money of Soulelujah on Instagram Live. You bring the eggs, we’ll bring the beats. 

Red Lentils Topped with an Egg

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Vibe out on Instagram Livestream with the toast of the town, DJ Tyler Kpakpo, who’ll be providing smooth tunes as well as a classic French Toast recipe for Sunday Brunch!

Brioche French Toast

Streaming on YouTube Live, Instagram Live, Facebook Live, and here.

Join us for a virtual evening honoring Virgil Abloh and Sterling Ruby, two of the most influential artists of our time, each breaking boundaries and redefining the worlds of art, fashion, and design.

Enjoy special performances from 2020 Grammy nominee Tank and the Bangas and experimental pop and performance artist serpentwithfeet. Hear tributes from renowned artist, director, and cinematographer Arthur Jafa and former New York Times chief fashion critic and editor-at-large for New York Magazine’s The Cut Cathy Horyn as well as appearances from our very own ICA teens. And as a special treat, join us for inspiration and conversation with the honorees themselves!

Clothing pattern on green background with repeating grim reaper imagery and the text

“WALLPAPER” pattern piece property of Virgil Abloh™️ & Sterling Ruby ©️2020. Designed exclusively for the ICA Gala.

Download now 

Program

Performance / serpentwithfeet
Welcome / Jill Medvedow, Ellen Matilda Poss Director
Testimonial / Rafael Andrade, ICA Teen Arts Council
Introduction / Nathan DeJesus, ICA Teen Arts Council
Tribute / Cathy Horyn
Intro / Beatrice Jackson, ICA Teen Arts Council
Tribute / Arthur Jafa
Conversation / Virgil Abloh + Sterling Ruby
Thanks / Jill Medvedow, Ellen Matilda Poss Director
Performance / Tank and the Bangas

HONORING

VIRGIL ABLOH
Artist and designer Virgil Abloh has pioneered a practice that cuts across media and connects visual artists, musicians, graphic designers, fashion designers, and architects. Abloh cultivated an interest in design and music at an early age, finding inspiration in the urban culture of Chicago. While pursuing a master’s degree in architecture from the Illinois Institute of Technology, he worked on album covers, concert designs, and merchan- dising. In 2013, he launched his fashion house Off-White, and in 2018 he was named artistic director of Louis Vuitton’s menswear. Next July, the ICA opens Abloh’s first museum exhibition, Virgil Abloh: “Figures of Speech,” organized by the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago and set in an immersive space designed by Rem Koolhaas’s renowned architecture firm OMA* AMO. Offering an in-depth look at defining highlights of Abloh’s career, the exhibition includes signature clothing collections, video documentation of iconic fashion shows, and distinctive furniture, graphic design work, and collaborative projects with other artists.

STERLING RUBY
Sterling Ruby is a leading contemporary artist whose work has been presented in solo exhibitions throughout the globe. Since his earliest works, Ruby has investigated the role of the artist as an outsider. Critiquing the struc- tures of modernism and traditional institutions, Ruby ad- dresses the repressed underpinnings of American culture and the coding of power and violence, employing a range of imagery from the American flag to prison architecture and graffiti. Based in Los Angeles, Ruby also privileges craft in his work, informed by his interest in California’s radical ceramics tradition and the quilt-making and other handicrafts of Pennsylvania Dutch country, where he grew up. The artist’s first comprehensive museum survey, co-organized with ICA Miami and on view at the ICA, features more than 70 works that demonstrate the relationship between material transformation in Ruby’s practice and the rapid evolution of contemporary culture, institutions, and labor. Spanning more than two decades, the exhibition features works ranging from his renowned ceramics and paintings to lesser-known drawings and sculptures.

SPECIAL GUEST SPEAKERS

ARTHUR JAFA
Renowned artist, director, and cinematographer Arthur Jafa has captured the history and experience of black Americans from groundbreaking collaborations with Beyoncé and Spike Lee to major museum presentations across the globe. The ICA presented his powerful video installation Love is the Message, The Message is Death in 2018.

CATHY HORYN
Former New York Times chief fashion critic and current editor-at-large for New York Magazine’s The Cut, Cathy Horyn is celebrated for her fearless and provocative reviews and was recognized by the Council of Fashion Designers of America with the prestigious Eugenia Sheppard Award for fashion writing.

PERFORMANCES BY

SERPENTWITHFEET
Experimental pop and performance artist acclaimed for his voluminous, operatic flourish and electroacoustic milieu.

TANK AND THE BANGAS
Unpredictable 2020 Grammy nominees for Best New Artist full of funk, soul, hip-hop, jazz, and spoken-word freshness.

Thank You

PRESENTING SPONSORS

PREMIER SPONSORS

LEAD SPONSORS

OFFICIAL HOTEL PARTNER

MEDIA SPONSOR

VIRTUAL PROGRAMS SPONSOR

STERLING RUBY

VIRGIL ABLOH: “FIGURES OF SPEECH”

ICA BOARD OF TRUSTEES

ICA BOARD OF HONORARY TRUSTEES

ICA ADVISORY BOARD

 

 

 

 

Strike a pose! Virtual First Fridays continue to make a splash on screen—featuring fashion, dance, tutorials, DJ set, and more. Teaming up again this year, ICA First Fridays: Caribbean Couture is presented in partnership with Boston Caribbean Fashion Week. Join us (from your home) for an evening celebrating local artists, designers, and performers. 

Preview the hottest looks from Final Touch Boutique and Mas n Motion, creations by Mas Camp costume designer K-Sean Burrell-Nanton, enjoy music by Tempo International Rhythm Section, move along to a dance performance by Smallie Michelle, get the look courtesy of Alexia Jay’s Carnival makeup tutorial, and stir it up with a cocktail lesson by bartender Ebony Jones, Ms. Bougie Bar of Bougie Bartenders. Special appearance by Althea Blackford, BCFW Founder. Plus, don’t miss a live dance afterparty on Zoom with DJ Warlock!
 

Specialty cocktail

Jack Honey Melon Berry Fizz
By Ms. Bougie Bar of Boston’s Bougie Bartenders

Ingredients

Let’s toast to the ICA

Use Drizly code JACKHONEY and get $5 off your Jack Daniel’s Tennessee Honey order. It gets sweeter! $1 of your Drizly order supports the museum. Redeem offer

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First Fridays: Caribbean Couture is sponsored by Jack Daniel’s Tennessee Honey
 

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SUNRAE is an artist, DJ, and producer who is known for his high-energy sets that make others not only want to dance, but also feel empowered to let their light shine and be their true self. 

Dance along and blend your SUNRAE-Sunday Juice with these DJ-approved ingredients:

  • Kale
  • Frozen Mango
  • Frozen Pineapple
  • Ice
  • Coconut Water
  • Ginger
  • Lime
  • Hemp Seeds

Your support helps keeps programs like this – both virtual and in-person – free and accessible in this time of uncertainty. If you are able, please consider becoming a member or making a one-time gift to support the ICA.

Mix up  your Sunday Brunch at home with a live set featuring two local legends. Shamara AKA DJ WhySham, is a visionary, activist, traveler, sister, god-parent, and “Your Community DJ.” Hip-hop artist  Brandie Blaze is know for spreading her message of “trap feminism” through her hard hitting bars and dynamic stage presence. Dance along to these 2019 Boston Music Award nominees while blending their signature juice: 

The Blaze Special w/ Side of Sham

  • 2 cups apple juice
  • 2 cups water
  • 1 cup spinach
  • 1 cup strawberries
  • ½ cup honey
  • ½ cup ice
     

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Your support helps keeps programs like this – both virtual and in-person – free and accessible in this time of uncertainty. If you are able, please consider becoming a member or making a one-time gift to support the ICA.

Tune in here and on Vimeo for an unforgettable music experience, brought to your living rooms by the ICA in collaboration with local creative collective allyoucaneat. Six of both coasts’ most innovative DJs will be spinning back-to-back sets, with handcrafted visuals to fully feed your senses.

Set times

*Set times are EST (Eastern Standard Time)

8 – 9 PM
SILK | Real P + Baby Indiglo (BOS)

9 – 10 PM
allyoucaneatMozes +Yung Towfu (BOS)

10 – 11 PM
Don’t Sweat It | Azure & Agana featuring ESTA (LA)

Visuals by Malakhai Pearson (BOS)

Gather ‘round the campfire (or your coffee table) for First Fridays: Contemporary Campout hosted by hilarious Boston-based comedian and resident “camp counselor” Tooky Kavanagh. Mix campy cocktails with State Park’s Evan Harrison,  upgrade your mask look with Melissa Thyden of Cosmic Unicornz, listen to campfire poems by Sara Mae, and revel in summer soundtracks by folk musician Anjimile and DJ KNSZWRTH.

Specialty cockatil: Benito Buck

Art class: Upcycled tie-dye masks

Watch at icaboston.org, FacebookTwitch, and Vimeo.

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