Meet Your Off the Wall Hosts

Our family-friendly interactive gallery, Off the Wall, opens soon! In our last blog post, we met our five artists and learned how connection and joy made their pieces possible.

This week, we’ll get to know our Queens of Ceremonies, iconic drag performers Icon Ebony Fierce and Lili St. Queer. As hosts, Icon and Lili will be there during gallery hours to connect you with both the art projects and other participants (we know it’s nice to have some support getting back out into the world).

P.S. Don’t miss their special opening and closing performances at 6:30PM on Saturday, May 14 and Sunday, May 22!

Icon Ebony Fierce

Icon Ebony Fierce is a Philly based performance artist with one mission: to change people’s perception of artistic expression one subculture at a time.

Icon has a background in theatre, dance, and spoken word performance. Icon has been community organizing, curating events all throughout Philadelphia since 2012. Icon also specializes in burlesque, performance art, and drag. Their content includes body positivity, political/social issues, and gender equality. They are also a curator for festivals like Phreak N Queer, Hot Bits Film Festival, and more, always centering QTPOC people with an alternative point of view. Icon is currently a board member of the William Way Community Center.

Check out Icon here: https://www.instagram.com/iconebonyfierce/

Lili St. Queer

Lili performing their one-woman show “Cabaret Sauvignon” (from Lili’s Facebook page)

Lili St. Queer is a musician, cabaret & theatre artist, drag queen, comedian, educator, and DJ. They are a co-founder of Jaffe St. Queer Productions, whose recent partnership with the Penn Museum produced the original musical “Eric & Lili’s Night at the Museum,” and their cabaret duo Glitter & Garbage was named Philly Magazine’s Best Cabaret Act 2019. Lili is also the prettiest cast member in their recurring one-woman show “Cabaret Sauvignon.”

Check out Lili here: https://www.instagram.com/lilistqueer/

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Meet the Queens and make new friends this month! Off the Wall opens Saturday, May 14 from

2–7 PM.

For more information and tickets: http://localhost/paintedbride/events/off-the-wall/