https://www.onlyus.studio/home daily 1.0 2025-12-17 https://www.onlyus.studio/about daily 0.75 2025-12-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60becc84f556d315ab18ce4d/2cd5a230-1fae-4b64-bfd9-be94ff83bb11/2024_1031-CAC-AIS_Blackspace-Bonlee_951Web-1536x1024.jpg About - OnlyUS is… POWER TO THE INDEPENDENT From the heart of Downtown Durham at Google’s Entrepreneurship Hub, OnlyUs seeks to bring power to the artist in a way that is revolutionary to the music industry and education. Deriving from the Afro-futurist teen center Blackspace, OnlyUS seeks to provide music, events, and workshops on a level that shakes the way artist traditionally pave their legacy in music and through their community. Founded by the late Joshua “Rowdy” Rowsey and Reem “honours” Morin, the mission to power independence lives on. https://www.onlyus.studio/contact-1 daily 0.75 2025-12-17 https://www.onlyus.studio/ourartists daily 0.75 2025-12-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60becc84f556d315ab18ce4d/1624334295012-5RX711V9DD2X3XMXT5TG/rowdy.jpg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60becc84f556d315ab18ce4d/1624334984074-COOVCDIZ2JX4CKZ5S9B8/piercedance.jpg https://www.onlyus.studio/pierce daily 0.75 2021-06-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60becc84f556d315ab18ce4d/1624335123177-NCNWGCHFY73FVMHJ9T90/piercedance.jpg Pierce Freelon - PIERCE FREELON Durham City Council Member Pierce Freelon is an accomplished Hip Hop/soul/electronic musician and Emmy-award winning producer, director and professor from Durham, NC whose work has been featured on the TODAY Show, and at NPR, Now This, Rolling Stone, Parents Magazine and more. For over 16 years Pierce has traveled the world teaching Hip Hop and music production to youth in community centers. He is the co-founder of Beat Making Lab an Emmy Award-winning PBS web-series, has taught in the departments of music and African American Studies at the University of NC at Chapel Hill and is the writer, composer and co-director of an animated series called History of White People in America, an official selection of the Tribeca Film Festival. Pierce is also the founder of Blackspace, a digital maker space where he has mentored dozens of youth, teaching digital storytelling through music and film. For over a decade, he has been the frontman of critically acclaimed Jazz/Hip Hop quartet The Beast and has toured internationally and released a series of albums, EPs, and mixtapes. In 2022 Little, Brown will release his debut children’s book Daddy Daughter Day (based on his song of the same title). He is the son of famed Grammy-nominated jazz vocalist Nnenna Freelon, and the late preeminent architect of the National Museum of African American History and Culture, Phil Freelon. Pierce lives in Durham with his wife and their two young children. https://www.onlyus.studio/services daily 0.75 2025-12-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60becc84f556d315ab18ce4d/fcbf3039-954f-4a4f-a716-40a10e07435d/ISIMG-985831.JPG https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60becc84f556d315ab18ce4d/42c26108-bd53-4972-89c6-d4db94e4f364/sclassic+2023-02-19+221150.940.jpg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60becc84f556d315ab18ce4d/e3acf28f-3a33-481c-91af-b91ca30e848c/2024_1031-CAC-AIS_Blackspace-Bonlee_049Web-1536x1024.jpg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60becc84f556d315ab18ce4d/d61da843-8cbb-401e-9853-82be1ebe4ef9/2023_1006+CAC+AIS_BlackspaceCMS047.jpg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60becc84f556d315ab18ce4d/3e3cd264-e588-448a-a1a4-a261b6875a6f/ISIMG-996789.JPG https://www.onlyus.studio/press daily 0.75 2023-10-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60becc84f556d315ab18ce4d/9ebe8f5a-971a-41fc-b51d-b3e620820b54/602d3e61c93fa.cover+copy.jpg Press "Introducing, Mr. R, your neighborhood hip-hop educator" https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60becc84f556d315ab18ce4d/be0d5caf-226a-4267-8bda-3bfbf07a5f2e/Red+Clay+Plays+gradient.jpg Press "New Podcast ‘Red Clay Plays’ Brings Together Black Playwrights from across the South" https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60becc84f556d315ab18ce4d/5c969de7-634d-4d7a-9b91-fc6aa03dad16/Black%2BTo%2BThe%2BFuture%2Balbumjpg.jpg Press "Pierce Freelon Shatters Time and Space" https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60becc84f556d315ab18ce4d/ad9d1c20-d244-4bbf-a016-22640aa6b05f/durhamfi.gif Press DURHAMFI a lofi album with 20 instrumental tracks inspired by the Bull City. A collaboration between Discover Durham and Blackspace. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60becc84f556d315ab18ce4d/b061aa6c-ff46-4dd7-8df2-2e7c84ff6934/Mariposas.+Foto+Fran+Afonso-37.jpg Press The Butterfly Extravaganza was a spectacular performance created by the Mariposa girls in partnership with Blackspace and Paperhand Puppet Intervention. With support from the US Embassy in the Dominican Republic, the guest artists worked intensely with the girls for five weeks to produce and amazing show inspired by one of author Julia Alvarez's latest works, Already a Butterfly. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60becc84f556d315ab18ce4d/fb7aee69-e016-482c-a3f6-190076678e2d/Pauli%2Bat%2BTypewriter.webp Press This episode is part of a two-episode miniseries for youth chronicling Rev. Dr. Pauli Murray’s contributions to the Civil Rights Movement named, Pauli Murray: The Animated Miniseries. This episode focuses on Pauli Murray’s early life during the early 1920s through the Great Depression as S/he developed their passion for social activism. https://www.onlyus.studio/rowdy daily 0.75 2021-06-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60becc84f556d315ab18ce4d/1624334295012-5RX711V9DD2X3XMXT5TG/rowdy.jpg Rowdy - ROWDY Kevin “Rowdy” Rowsey is a National Recording Artist, Writer, Actor, and Educator based in the North Carolina Triangle Area. Rowdy has been featured on BET, NPR, PBS Kids, and has given a TEDX talk on the importance of Hip Hop Culture. Rowsey is a U.S. Hip Hop Ambassador through the U.S. Department of State and the Next Level Hip Hop Program. On stage Rowsey is part of the national collective No9to5 Music, and plays with a live Jazz Band (J) Rowdy & The Night Shift which was nominated for a 2017 Carolina Music Award. Currently Rowdy is the founder of two triangle area Cyphers – The UNC Cypher (UNC-CH) and the Med City Cypher (Downtown Durham). He also holds the position of Program Director at the Downtown Durham – Afrofuturist Teen Center Blackspace. Through UNC Greensboro’s Masters of Arts in Teaching Program, Rowsey continues his mission to spread southern hip hop at a national and international level through performance, writing, and educational workshops inspiring the culture through the craft.