Spring is usually imagined as gentle — quiet buds, soft blossom, gradual renewal. But growth is rarely polite. It pushes. It splits. It overtakes. It arrives all at once.
When beauty and chaos
decide they're on
the same side.
MAYhem 14C is a three-day festival of art and spring: performances, open studios, immersive installations, and a group exhibition that asks what happens when emergence becomes feral. Come for one night or the whole weekend.
Friday, May 8
6:30 – 9:00 pm
4th, 5th & 6th Floors
Only night all floors openThe fullest picture of who we are. The Special Projects cohort and A Riot of Spring on the 4th floor — plus a rare open evening with ARTS 14C's long-term resident artists on 5 and 6.
Free tickets →Saturday, May 9
1:00 – 6:00 pm
4th Floor
Performances and open studios all afternoon. Wander in and out, catch a set, linger in front of a mural, let something unexpected happen.
Get tickets →Sunday, May 10
Mother's Day
1:00 – 6:00 pm
4th Floor
Performances and open studios all afternoon, with a DJ in the lounge and champagne and mimosas. We're throwing a party. Bring your mother.
Get tickets → Moms free all day — obviously.The Magic Flute
Mozart reimagined — a full performance from the Special Projects cohort.
Monsters Inc. the Musical
Live, original, and entirely unexpected. Yes, really.
Flamenco & Leonard Cohen
Choreography that holds two seemingly impossible things together — and makes it feel inevitable.
Immersive installations
Spaces that ask you to feel before you understand.
Large-scale murals
Expansive work that transforms the walls of the 4th floor into something you walk through, not past.
Surreal photography
Images that sit at the edge of what's real — and stay there.
Dioramas & sculpture
Intricate worlds built at unusual scales — including soccer ball sculptures.
Portraiture & a graphic novel
Character studies and a sequential narrative work in progress.
A Riot of Spring
Work that embraces the unruly — emotional overflow, material excess, transformation, contradiction. From subtle shifts to explosive gestures. Opening Friday night, open all weekend.
A graphic novel, page by page
The pages of a graphic novel cover the studio walls — an entire narrative world made physical, readable, and room-sized.
Two artists, one subject
A painter and a writer examine the same person from wildly different perspectives — in concert, and in contrast. What does portraiture look like when the tools are completely different?
Poets, writers & observers of life
An open mic for poets, writers, and anyone who notices things. Come to read, come to listen, come to be surprised by what people carry around in their heads.
The whole building
opens its doors
On Friday night — and only Friday night — ARTS 14C's long-term resident artists open their studios to the public.
Work from all disciplines: visual arts, literary arts, performing arts. Working artists in working studios. Come ready to be surprised by what people are actually making.
The 5th and 6th floors will not be open Saturday or Sunday. Friday is the only chance to see this work.
5th & 6th Floor Studios · Friday May 8 · 6:30 – 9 pm · Free admission
Reproduced with the generous permission of the artist.
Invoking Medusa
Fabricio SuarezInvoking Medusa is the muse for MAYhem — and its logo. The lush, unsettling beauty of this painting — growth erupting from dark earth, flowers that feel carnivorous, a world teeming beyond its own edges — is the visual spirit of MAYhem 14C.
Spring as force. Beauty as something with teeth.
fabriciosuarez.com →Flamenco and Leonard Cohen. Mozart in a studio. Soccer ball sculptures. Carnivorous florals. A DJ and mimosas on Mother's Day. Three floors of working artists throwing open their doors.
You should probably just come.