Posted on Tuesday, June 06, 2023
As a celebration of Pride Month, the Kansas City Kansas Community College Art Gallery’s newest exhibition is “This Skin I’m In,” a collection of images and narratives by artists in and engaged with the LGBTQIA+ community. With this series of visual autobiographies, photographers were invited to submit work that expressed their own personal experiences of queerness using photography and narrative as a vehicle for self-expression.
The purpose of the exhibition is to invite the viewer to rethink societal labels of difference and otherness and present the opportunity to play with preconceived definitions of gender and the language we use around the subject. How do we use pronouns? What do we think about people if their presentation is not what we are comfortable or familiar with? What can we learn from seeing and hearing their stories?
An opening reception for the exhibit will be from 4:30 to 7:30 p.m. June 6 in the KCKCC Art Gallery, which is on the lower level of the Jewell Student Center on the KCKCC Main Campus, 7250 State Ave. This event is free and open to the public. The exhibition runs until July 12.
The show is curated by Starr Sariego and Tema Stauffer. It incorporates work by 21 photographers at different points in their careers and reflects identities widely varied in terms of age, race, gender and sexuality. The participating artists include - Alice Aldrich, Michael Borowski, Frances Bukovsky, Micheal Bumgarner, Jesse Crosby, Olivia DelGandio, Taneisheo Ferguson, Jenna Jaffe, Maeve Lawson, Nefertiti Luakabuanga, Erik Mace, Joshua Masters, Ashlyn McKibben, Summer Minerva, Nonnulla, Julie Rae Powers, Benjy Russell, Starr Sariego, Rony Sejaan, Elijah Sells, Lex Turnbull, Katt Naz Vitoria, and Thomas Waters.
For more information on the exhibition or events, contact Shai Perry, coordinator of the KCKCC Art Gallery, at sperry@kckcc.edu.
Category: Arts and Culture
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