Pangea Restaurant and Bar
Director of Art Installations
Wendell Walker Design provides ongoing management of an art exhibition program at Pangea Restaurant and Bar at 178 Second Avenue in Manhattan's East Village. Originally opened in 1986 as La Spaghetteria, Pangea owners Arnoldo Caballero and Stephen Shanaghan reinvented the space in the mid ’90s as Pangea—described by The New York Times as “a bohemian oasis not unlike Max’s Kansas City in the New York gone by.”
In 2015, Pangea began presenting live performances in a dining room space. That evolved into its now-legendary Cabaret Room, now hosting over 200 performances annually—from traditional cabaret to experimental multimedia, jazz, drag, poetry reading, personal storytelling, and more.
Starting in July 2025, Wendell Walker Design began managing a newly structured exhibition program in the Cabaret Room, and opened Sandra Bloodworth: Out of the Blue in September 2025. The plan going forward is to do three art installations each year, and to feature events with exhibiting artists discussing their work.