MAKE YOU FEEL THAT WAY at NoName Gallery

This November, NoName Gallery in Philadelphia’s Chestnut Hill neighborhood unveils an exhibition that aims not to impress, but to move. MAKE YOU FEEL THAT WAY opens on First Friday, November 7th, and runs through December 2025—offering you a deeply immersive and emotionally resonant experience curated around memory, identity, and the intimate power of the everyday. Inspired by the Blackalicious track of the same name, the exhibit echoes the cadence, honesty, and rhythm of that song in visual form.

Featuring the works of Cathey White and Don Bell, both Philadelphia-based artists, MAKE YOU FEEL THAT WAY confronts the traditional gallery gaze. These artists aren’t concerned with aloof aesthetics or highbrow detachment. They’re here to connect—through brushstrokes, textures, and captured truths—and to remind us that emotional resonance should be at the center of the art-viewing experience.

Located at 8127 Germantown Avenue, NoName Gallery will open its doors from 6 PM to 9 PM on November 7th for the official opening night.

MAKE YOU FEEL THAT WAY Through the Eyes of Cathey White

Painter Cathey White brings a sharp yet tender lens to the ordinary, turning cultural touchpoints into visual love letters for a shared past. Her work speaks a visual language born on the street and matured in the studio—where graffiti’s spontaneity meets pop art’s punch. Through brave mark-making and textured layering, White transforms familiar brands and objects into icons of memory and meaning.

From corner-store snacks to everyday consumer items, White’s pieces ask, unabashedly: What makes something worth remembering? What gives a symbol its staying power? Her work elevates these cultural artifacts—objects often overlooked or dismissed—into totems of identity and community. Whether presented at a miniature scale or blown up to mural-like proportions, her canvases evoke a kind of urban sacredness that reverberates with viewers who recognize themselves in every line.

For MAKE YOU FEEL THAT WAY, the nostalgia is thick. The brushstrokes are purposeful. And the emotional hit is undeniable.

MAKE YOU FEEL THAT WAY Through the Lens of Don Bell

In his dual lives as an Emmy-winning journalist and self-taught visual artist, Don Bell knows the power of narrative. His photography in MAKE YOU FEEL THAT WAY exposes the raw and often unspoken truths within communities of color—balancing the poetic and the political with precision and grace. Portraiture, photography, and drone imagery collide here in a rich tapestry of emotion, intention, and revelation.

Bell’s work leans into the vulnerability beneath the surface—the moments where resilience and reflection meet. Born to a Jamaican father and a mother from the Jim Crow South, Bell’s personal history informs a broader mission: to amplify beauty, nuance, and truth in stories that are too often marginalized or misunderstood.

^{“Summer Nights” 17×22, photography and mixed media
“The Man” 17×22, photography and mixed media}

There’s a journalistic integrity to his imagery, but also an artist’s sensitivity. His subjects are more than seen—they are witnessed. The people and places he captures exist in full humanity, and MAKE YOU FEEL THAT WAY offers a space where their stories breathe.