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Shop Black-owned fragrance by feeling, not by brand. Cocktails, light bites, and a DJ at The Moxy Charlotte Downtown. 🌸 Shop fragrance by feeling, not by brand. The Garden: In Bloom is an afternoon of luxury Black owned fragrance, cocktails, and live music in Uptown Charlotte, hosted by frances marie. Here's what makes it different. Every scent in the room is organized by how you want to feel, not by brand name or by notes you'd need a dictionary to decode. Walk the Sexy table. Or Confident, Luxe, Fresh, Cozy. Smell your way through the feeling you're after and find the one that's yours. No sales pressure. No pretension. No fluorescent department store lighting. WHAT YOUR TICKET INCLUDES 🛍 A curated gift bag from frances marie and our beauty partners, full size to travel size 🌟 VIP: the frances marie Discovery Set, 2ml vials of Honest, True, and Allure 🌿 25+ scents from independent Black owned perfumers, sorted by feeling, bottles to take home same day 🥂 A signature welcome cocktail, plus a full bar all afternoon 🍴 Gourmet light bites for the first two hours 🎵 A live DJ set 🏨 A discounted room rate at The Moxy if you're making a weekend of it WHO'S COMING 💙 If you love fragrance: you'll leave with something you cannot find at SouthPark, from perfumers who are in the room to tell you how they made it.. 💙 If you're the one who plans everything: this is the group chat activity that finally isn't brunch. Bring four friends and take the photos.l. 💙 If you're new to fragrance: this is the easiest way in. You don't need to know anything. You just need to know how you want to feel. ABOUT frances marie frances marie is an experiential fragrance brand built for Black women who have always loved fragrance but have been ignored by it. We make scents and the spaces to discover them in. The Garden is our flagship experience, born in Atlanta, in bloom in Charlotte. THE TICKET DETAILS 75 guests. That's the whole room, on purpose, so nothing feels rushed and you're not shouting over anyone. GA $45 | VIP $69 Prices go up Aug. 17 So: how do you want to feel? Reserve your spot 🪻💙🪩✨

Celebrate the release of Dr. Powell's new book, "Colorstruck! Painting, Pigment, Affect" at the Gantt. Join us with Dr. Richard Powell, the author of Colorstruck! Painting, Pigment, Affect, for an engaging book talk about his latest release. Dr. Powell's presentation will include live readings of excerpts from his book and powerful images & videos to expand upon its cultural context. After the presentation, guests will have the opportunity to meet Dr. Powell and purchase signed copies of his book. About the Book: In this stunning book, Richard Powell draws on the concept of “colorstruck,” a twentieth-century slang term describing prejudice toward people with darker skin complexions, to provide a new history of Black American art. Powell charts the dynamics of paint and pigment in the works of artists such as Jacob Lawrence, Alma Thomas, Raymond Saunders, Sam Gilliam, Hervé Télémaque, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Lynette Yiadom-Boakye, Nina Chanel Abney, and Henry Taylor. Using blue, green, yellow, orange, black, red, brown, and their combinations, he considers the historical and cultural contexts in which these colors unleash their visual magic and shows how the artists’ vibrant palettes collide with undercurrents of race in unanticipated and thought-provoking ways. Powell shares compelling insights into the powerful chromatic forces manifested through artists’ actions and viewers’ reactions. About the Author: Richard J. Powell is the John Spencer Bassett Distinguished Professor of Art & Art History at Duke University, where he has taught since 1989. After receiving his B.A. at Morehouse College, he earned the M.F.A. from Howard University, and the M.A. in African American Studies and M.Phil. and Ph.D. in the History of Art from Yale University. Powell, a recognized authority on African American art, has organized numerous art exhibitions, most notably: The Blues Aesthetic: Black Culture and Modernism (1989); Rhapsodies in Black: Art of the Harlem Renaissance (1997); To Conserve A Legacy: American Art at Historically Black Colleges and Universities (1999); Back to Black: Art, Cinema, and the Racial Imaginary (2005); and Archibald Motley: Jazz Age Modernist (2014). Powell has published books on a range of topics, including such titles as Homecoming: The Art and Life of William H. Johnson (1991), Black Art: A Cultural History (1997, 2002 & 2021), Cutting a Figure: Fashioning Black Portraiture(2008), Going There: Black Visual Satire (2020), and Colorstruck! Painting, Pigment, Affect (2026). From 2007 until 2010, Powell was Editor-in-Chief of The Art Bulletin, the world’s leading English language journal in art history. In 2013 Powell received the Lawrence A. Fleischman Award for Scholarly Excellence in the field of American Art History from the Smithsonian’s Archives of American Art, and in 2016 he was the College Art Association's most Distinguished Scholar. In 2018 Powell was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and in 2025 he was inducted into the American Philosophical Society. In 2023, Powell was the Leonard A. Lauder Research Center’s Distinguished Senior Scholar at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and in 2024, Powell was the Henry Luce Fellow at the National Humanities Center.