530 South Street • Philadelphia, PA
More Fun Upstairs
From the first tag to the latest wheat paste, upstairs at TMom’s has been home to a rich history of local & international street art. This is an ever changing gallery: an un-curated & spontaneous outpouring of creativity by local & traveling artists and the countless visitors who leave their unique mark here nightly.
The birth of the upstairs as a vibrant art space is in part tied to a 1999 exhibition by brothers Noah & Nathan Rice. That year the Brothers Rice brought their umbrella wheat pastes we’d been admiring around South Street to Mom’s. All 5000 of them.
Sticker art has been an important part of the upstairs at Mom’s since day one. So it’s a huge honor (and a lot of fun) to be the home of the Sticky Art Machine.
Love & Good Times Always
Presented by Low Level and Come On Strong, Shock Exchange: Matinee Market is bringing local punk vendors to the 2nd floor of Tattooed Mom!
Vendors:
Amberella
Bad Penny
Bort’s Pin Emporium
Come On Strong
Eternal War
Here and Now Zines
JP Flexner
Low Level
TCB Distro
THRILLHAUS
Trash Tomb
& more
Shy Watson is stopping by for a reading of her new book, Cheap Yellow! She will be joined by other local poets & will have copies of the book available for sale!
Shy’s poems are abruptly smart, a little violent, devious and ongoing, legendary, mythic, not prosey though a little like the voice of god if god decided to speak more collectively for a while. Shy’s poems to me are so so worth it.
And they are crafty – also like god.
—Eileen Myles, author of Afterglow
Roster:
Amy Saul-Zerby
Prairie M. Faul
Zach Blackwood
Ash Strange
Ted Tarnovski
Shy Watson
Enjoy this event with our Burger Wednesday specials:
$4 Burgers
$2 Narragansett Lager Tall Boys
Half off all drafts 5-7 and 10-11pm
& check out May’s Burger of the Month, DUDES: friend green tomato, crisp red cabbage & apple slaw, and smokey red pepper mayo
Join the Facebook Event and invite all your pals!
We’re honored to be featured in the latest installment of Opaque Philly’s series of videos highlighting our city’s creators. Opaque’s passionate talent & vision for this project captured the heart and soul Tattooed Mom. Their support of the local creative community and focus on celebrating self expression in it’s many forms comes through in every frame. We’re excited to share “A Canvas for a Community” with you and hope you’ll take a few minutes to see and hear what TMoms founder Robert & featured artist Bear 215 have to share about their love for Tattooed Mom & the worldwide family we’re so lucky to be with on this journey.
The Last Emperor of Mexico | Written & performed by Chris Davis | Directed by Mary Tuomanen
Buy tickets online or at the door for $10.00.
Enjoy this event with our Taco Tuesday specials:
$1 Tacos
$2.50 Tecate
Half off all drafts 5-7 & 10-11pm
& check out May’s Taco of the Month, The Festro: braised black pepper beef, roast garlic & avocado cream, topped with house pickled radish slaw
Join the Facebook Event and invite your friends.
Celebrating 70’s glam rock, retro sci-fi, and the three day theatrical re-release of Labyrinth!
Riot Nerd returns to Tattooed Mom with the spirit of the Star Man in tow. Put your space face close to ours with over a dozen local vendors selling inspired handmade items. Don’t miss this one-time-only Space Oddity.
FREE ADMISSION!
Vendors:
Meldar16
Qori Moorehaul
Itzy Bitzy
Big Trouble
Necronomicharm
Crahman Noodles Shop
Grinning Feline
PeachCola Co
The Bread Shack
Join the Facebook Event and invite all your pals!
Spring is FINALLY here, and that means it’s time for the 6th annual South Street Spring Festival! Enjoy a beautiful spring afternoon as South Street transforms into 8 blocks of delicious food, local artists and crafts, 3 stages worth of music and entertainment & fun all day long both inside & out of Tattooed Mom!
Check out our Big Top Tent of Art right outside of Mom’s featuring one of a kind art & special Spring Fest exclusive drops from some of our favorite Philly artists. This year we’ll be featuring the very talented crew of creators & makers who work at Mom’s. Meet & pick up hand crafted art from these fine folks:
Bear
AntiDye
Raw Eyes
Nathan Hurst
Don’t Be A Prick
NAME
Kayla Connors
& more!
And be sure to pop into TMoms for our house made Spring Fest Big Top Punch cocktail!
Made with Peruvian Pisco, coconut water, mango & lime juices for a celebration of tropical spring flavors.
Join the Facebook Event and invite all your spring-loving pals! We can’t wait to see you for an afternoon of art, cocktails, food & free fun for the whole crew!
About The Project – Mural Photo Booth is a collaborative project between beloved South Street bar Tattooed Mom and new Fabric Row home and life shop YOWIE. They chose two artists that speak to the fun, quirky, and creative vibe of South Street and wanted to create a fun, Spring Fest inspired installation that begs to be interacted with.
About The Artists:
Emilia Brintnall is a visual artist based in Philadelphia. Emilia primary works in paper mache sculpture, video and installation. Emilia creates work based on animals, plants, landscapes and everyday objects that are lumpy playful versions of their real forms. Often her sculptures and drawings transform into fantasy hybrid creatures or piles of characters.
James Dream is a multidisciplinary visionary artist. His current work involves creating spaces conducive to moving emotions, sparking imagination, and most importantly, play.
Be sure to stop by the mural photo booth installations on the 200 block of South Street during the Spring Festival on Saturday May 5 from 11am – 8pm. Feel free to take selfies, pics of your kids, family & besties & tag the artists (@emiliabrintnall & @flesh_prince) and #SouthStFest. Enjoy this fun life sized sidewalk photo booth.
This project was created with the generous support of Paradigm Gallery + Studio and the South Street Headhouse District.
Girl Crime Organization is coming back to Mom’s for an “Original and Interesting” art show!
Branching out from their Crime on South Street Pop-Up, this show will feature new & old artists. Past shows have included: AllyCat, JVLiET, Tia Uuggh, ShittyStyle, Autumn Veggiemon, Jaz Malone, Yasmin, MechanicalPencilGirl, &
Kelly Campanile.
Stop by to get your fill of crime (& our Burger Wednesdays specials):
$4 Mom’s Burgers and Mom’s Vegan Burgers
Half off all drafts 10-11pm
+ LAST CHANCE for the April Burger of the Month, “Get Crazy“
The final east coast art show in honor of Justin Betts will be held at Tattooed Mom. Come join us one last time to celebrate his art and more importantly, his life.
Multiple vendors will be there.
In addition there will be raffles.
20% of all food and drink sales will be donated to the benefit.
Artwork from Justin Betts, showcased at Tattooed Mom in January 2018.
Riot Nerd triumphantly returns with a 90’s Craft Bazaar for Fresh Princes, Spice Girls & all the Power Rangers in between. It’s all 90’s all the time as a dozen local vendors offer handmade goods inspired by the decade of Teletubbies, Seinfeld and doing it all for the Nookie. Hasta la vista, baby!
Vendors:
Batty Boutique
Necro Fx
Offal By-Products
Ammg Designs
Taped Off TV
Night Owl Designs
Jessitrak Creates
Draculad
Snipglass
Fabric Dragon
FREE Admission!
Bunch menu available until 4:30pm!
