Type Arts organization | Headquarters New York, United States | |
A Gathering of the Tribes is a multi cultural interdisciplinary arts organization originally founded by Dr. Steve Cannon at his home at 285 East third street in New York City's East Village. The Organization publishes a literary magazine and has now presented its fourteenth issue. The collective also hosted a gallery and performance space where numerous exhibitions and concerts took place with notable artists and musicians such as the Sun Ra Arkestra, Chavisa Woods, Katherine Arnoldi, John Farris, Susan Scutti, Bob Holman, Ishmael Reed, Billy Bang and David Hammons.
The organization also runs a small publishing imprint called "Fly by Nigh"t Press, which has issued or reprinted books by among others; Carl Hancock Rux, Eve Packer, Barbara Purcell. Lester Afflcik, Michael Carter, Amy Ouzoonian, John Farris and John Rainard.
In April 2014 both the organization and Cannon were forced to relocate and the gallery permanently shut when the occupancy agreement they had with the woman to whom the building had previously been sold, Lorraine Zhang, ended. Simultaneously a wall which retained some of an art-piece by David Hammons (which had previously been sold to an art collector after having been reproduced and the originality of the object transferred) was removed and relocated by the organization and replaced by another minus the pedigree adornment.