Psych Soul Art Party
Sych Soul Art Party is a monthly Psychedelic Art Night where people of all kinds can come get weird, make art, get groovy with live performance artists, dance to all the sounds, dress up and play!
Taking place 7pm – 10pm every fourth Thursday of the month at Revelry with Performance Art + Music by tiny.blips featuring Lauraly Atria and an Interactive Art Project guided by Artist Instructor Kelcie McQuaid.
This month, July 25th, will be featuring Oil Pastel + Watercolor Abstracts.
Preorder Tickets are $25 ($30) at the door and include a Draft Beer, Wine, or Psych Soul cocktail, All Art Project Materials, and Entry into our Gift Bag Raffle Sponsored by Jerry’s Artarama + Revelry!
Presented by Revelry, ShangriLa Collective + tiny.blips ft. Laura Atria, this Psych Soul Art Party will be an experience that’ll excite all your senses + have you coming back for more every month!
Meet Tiny.Blips
An alchemist of bespoke beats, South Florida producer tiny.blips utilizes all-original instrumentation and vocals while serving up layered psychedelic grooves in styles ranging from lofi, hiphop, funk, jazz, and nu disco. A feast for the ears, eyes, heart and soul.
Meet Laura Atria:
Laura Atria is a seasoned public art professional, currently serving as the Public Art and Artist in Residence Program Manager for the City of Pompano Beach and as the President of the Florida Association of Public Art Professionals. With over thirteen years in public art administration, she has a successful track record in developing and implementing art programs and serving on various boards and panels, including the Broward Cultural Council. She holds dual degrees in Studio Art and Art History from FAU. Her expertise has been key in creating Public Art Master Plans, securing grants, and earning accolades, including a one million-dollar Bloomberg Philanthropies Grant.
In addition to her public art advocacy, Atria is a professional artist whose work often focuses on voyeurism, the female, self-healing, and self-definition. She often creates personified characters in her paintings as a way to document her desire to process past traumas and better understand the world. She received the Broward Cultural Division Artists Support Grant in 2023, 2022, and 2021 and was commissioned by President Joe Biden in 2020 to create banner murals for his South Florida Presidential Campaign. As a professional visual artist and Public Arts Program Manager, Atria brings academic and hands-on knowledge in addition to familiarity of artistic theory, principles, and materials to the projects she encounters.
Meet Kelcie McQuaid:
Kelcie McQuaid is a Multidisciplinary Professional Artist, Curator and Founder of ShangriLa Collective. Her influence can be seen and felt throughout the Tri-County area, where she was born and raised. McQuaid’s curatorial practice focuses on connecting emerging and mid-career artists with clear creative vision who seek to explore human experience through multimedia exhibits. Her artwork challenges emotional and creative boundaries by layering bold illustrative portraits with vibrant abstractions. Early in her career, McQuaid produced dozens of iconic murals and participated in over 80 group exhibitions. After her solo debut “Universe Expanding” in 2014 where she showcased over 100 paintings, Kelcie McQuaid was awarded ‘Best Emerging Artist 2015’ in Broward Palm Beach New Times.
McQuaid was an early champion of local developing art districts such as Mass District and Fat Village and has worked with many cultural entities including Broward County’s Cultural Division, Fort Lauderdale’s Museum of Art, Pompano Beach’s Cultural Center, Coral Springs Museum of Art, Subculture Group, and ArtServe amongst others. McQuaid has facilitated hundreds of art events, educational workshops and exhibitions in South Florida, helping to launch and sustain the careers of many emerging artists in the area.
She curated and project managed “Open Canvas Project” a massive public art project boasting participation from over 500 artists and community members for the City of Fort Lauderdale and ArtServe, winning Best Non-Profit Collaboration of the Year in 2018. McQuaid spent several years revitalizing the local impact of national art supplier Jerry’s Artarama where she programmed educational workshops, and launched development initiatives to support local art institutions as their Marketing + Outreach Coordinator. She has taught a multitude of art techniques as a Museum Educator for Coral Springs Museum of Art over the last 6 years, and even helped facilitate their annual ‘Empty Walls’ fundraiser this past summer. Kelcie has been consulting for Pompano Beach Arts, Bailey Contemporary Arts: Artist in Residence program for the last two years, helping artists forge new relationships and further their professional development.
Kelcie’s paintings are inspired by a balance of feminine energy, vulnerability, strength, and struggle. She is largely influenced by relationships from past to present and how people and our relationships can evolve, dissolve or transcend. Her art strives to capture how perspectives change over time. As we grow and age, we see things in different contexts. With this in mind, she uses the layering of paint, ink and other media to express her personal growth and power. Each time she picks up a brush, McQuaid revisits the paintings as a stronger person and she passes her development on to her works.
McQuaid was recently awarded an Artist Support Grant from Broward County Cultural Division for 2024 to help facilitate her next solo exhibition “People Pleaser”, where she showcased 107 portraits of community members and multiple installations in a variety of media earlier this year.