Join us for a performance by our new Artist in Residence, Mikel Patrick Avery

Tuesday, October 7

Library Learning Commons Exhibit Hall

Doors open at 5 p.m., concert starts at 5:30 p.m.

1700 Spring Garden Street, Philadelphia PA 19130

Artist Mikel Patrick Avery considers his multiplicity as one practice: creative problem solving. His rigorous work of performance, improvisation, composition, and experimentation spans jazz, experimental, and electronic music. Avery has collaborated and performed

We are thrilled to announce that Mikel Patrick Avery has been selected as our 2025-2026 Artist in Residence!  

A percussionist, composer/improvisor, filmmaker, photographer, and designer of modern pedal and electronic instruments, artist Mikel Patrick Avery considers this multiplicity as one practice: creative problem solving. Viewing neither "talent" nor "ability" as the driving principles that propel musical and artistic ideas, he is enlarging and democratizing creative space for a wider

Culture Cypher Radio host, ...and Spring Garden Records artist, John Morrison, selected RVLVR's remix of Ben O'Neill's Oh, the Hours as a featured track  for his Philly Top Five on WXPN.  Check it out here.

Share Your Creative Influence with Aspiring Musicians

Use your talent to enrich the lives of students pursuing a degree in music while you pursue your own artistic endeavors. Community College of Philadelphia’s Music department and Spring Garden Records are offering a one-year Artist in Residence (AIR) program. This is an opportunity to create music in a state-of-the-art studio while enabling students to learn from your industry experience and process as they gain real-world credentials for

Our inaugural artist-in-residence, Ruth Naomi Floyd, is releasing her new album "Catto: The Mission of Octavius Valentine Catto" on Friday, October 4th.  Pre-orders are now available on our bandcamp page here.

Vocalist and composer Ruth Naomi Floyd has been at the forefront of creating music dedicated to vocal jazz settings that express theology, history, and justice. In her Spring Garden Record debut, Floyd contextually points to the past by drawing from the life, mission, and sacrifice of