Mixtape Vol. 5: Ms. Carrie Stacks + ms. z tye

Floor 1, Lobby

Join the Whitney Museum and Mixtape for a special Free Friday Night honoring BIPOC creative visionaries who are redefining culture. The evening is co-hosted by Ms. Carrie Stacks, a multidisciplinary artist and co-founder of the influential London nightlife platform PDA, and ms. z tye, a Brooklyn-based artist whose practice unfolds through topographical investigations in performance, sculpture, and scripture. The two will perform in the museum’s lobby featuring a DJ set by Mixtape creator April Hunt.

Pop-up performance: Ms. Carrie Stacks and ms. z tye
8–8:30 pm

DJ set by April Hunt
6–8 pm , 8:30–10 pm

Frenchette pop-up bar
5–9:30 pm

ms. z tye is a Brooklyn-based artist whose practice unfolds through topographical investigations in performance, sculpture, and scripture. Summoning her work through what she calls “Glossolalia,” tye’s practice transcends the present realm, engaging with the known, the unknown, and the longed-for. She has been included in exhibitions with Bronx Museum of Arts, OCDChinatown, Swivel Gallery, Untitled Art Fair, Cierra Britton Gallery, Long Gallery Harlem, Jenkins Johnson Gallery, Postmasters Gallery, Art in Buildings, and Participant INC. Choreographic work has been presented with The Museum of Modern Art, The Kitchen, BMW, The Shed, Danspace, La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club, BOFFO, Gibney, and Movement Research. ms. z tye is currently a 2025-28 Jerome Hill fellow.

Ms. Carrie Stacks is a multidisciplinary artist working across music, fashion, and nightlife. Emerging from London’s underground creative scene as a co-founder of the influential nightlife platform PDA, her practice explores identity and liberation through sound. Blending experimental electronics, voice, and club-informed textures, her performances move between intimacy and intensity, creating immersive environments shaped by sensory immersion and communion.