Juneteenth Cookout with Calvin Pressley

This celebration honors comiunity, freedom, and shared history with food, music, and good company. Our current exhibition, Only People Know Me, feautring artwork by Calvin Pressley, will be open for viewing.

This event is free and open to the public. If you'd like to contribute to this event, please select the Donation option at checkout. All of the proceeds will directly support the cookout.

Street parking is available along Stieren St and in the surrounding neighborhood.

About Juneteenth

"Juneteenth – also known as Freedom Day, Jubilee Day, Liberation Day, and Emancipation Day – is a holiday celebrating the emancipation of African Americans who had been enslaved in the United States. Although the emancipation proclamation was signed almost two and a half years earlier, the news of this important decision didn’t reach Texas until June 19th, 1865. Now, Juneteenth is celebrated annually on June 19th and has become a time for celebration. People honor Juneteenth in many ways from parties and parades to memorials and lessons. However it’s celebrated, it’s a time to share stories of resilience, resistance, and liberation, and to uplift Black joy."

– National Museum of African American History and Culture

About Only People Know Me

Spanning 15 years of relentless creation, this exhibition unfolds as both a retrospective and a transition point. Pressley, once defined by prolific output and unrelenting artistic momentum, now stands at a crossroads, grappling with the weight of past work and the challenge of what comes next. The show brings together a selection of paintings and drawings that chart the evolution of an artist who, despite the feeling of diminished productivity, remains fiercely committed to reinvention.

“In recent years I’ve been haunted by my own past work,” says Pressley. “This exhibition isn’t about nostalgia—it’s about facing the echoes of what I’ve made and a step into something new.”

Through layered brushwork, fragmented compositions, and a dialogue between past and present styles, Only People Know Me reveals the tension between artistic identity and transformation. The works on view, some never exhibited before, offer a raw, unfiltered look at an artist who refuses to settle into repetition.