Artery Turns Bushwick Backyards, Living Rooms, Laundromats and More Into Performance Spaces

Bushwick has no lack of artists looking to bring their work to a wider audience, but securing space for showcases, performances, and readings can sometimes be a challenge. Artery, a new online platform, seeks to connect artists who need performance spaces, the people willing to host them, and the audiences interested in directly supporting them.

Vladic Ravich, founder of Artery, says he and his co-founder, Salimah Yvette Ebrahim, started talking about their experiences as journalists and “about how hard writing about culture can be—how you have to capture not just the person, but the entire culture around them—how they joke with their friends, where they sit, how they are greeted…seeing the little stuff close up is the only way to understand the big stuff. Somehow, out of that came this idea about a website that actually connected people to the real culture of a place.”