Clay Art Center is pleased to present Thicc-ening the Narrative: Intersectional Reflections on Race, Queerness, and Body Size in Contemporary Ceramics
An online invitational exhibition reflecting on intersecting identities during Pride Month. Guest curated by Deshun Peoples. Participating artists include Carletta Williams, Shaun Mallonga, V Walton, Gerald Brown, Grace (Gray) Gittelman, and Haylie Jimenez.
June 1 - June 30, 2024
Please join us for a virtual artist panel taking place on Zoom on June 20, 2024 at 7 PM EST. Register here
Clay Art Center is pleased to present Thicc-ening the Narrative: Intersectional Reflections on Race, Queerness, and Body Size in Contemporary Ceramics, an online invitational exhibition being held during Pride month.
Guest Curator Deshun Peoples states, “For this exhibition, I wanted to use the platform Clay Art Center provided to highlight intersectionality within the Queer (lgbtqia+) community. Navigating multiple marginalized identities and finding nourishing communities can be an arduous, trauma-latent process. I hope this exhibition serves as a place of refuge and rejuvenation for all of the Full[er]-Figured, Queer, and BIPOC communities as well as many others. I want this exhibition to not just celebrate fat, queer, BIPOC bodies, but also to reinvigorate a conversation on body size, politics of desirability, and fat justice as well as more fully imagine fatness as a social identity subject to structural oppression (particularly in medical, cosmetic/beauty, and dieting/fitness industries).
In trying to hold space in authentic and robust ways, I wanted to highlight the experiences of those most marginalized in queer communities. As I reflect on what queerness means to me, it has always been intricately linked to my Blackness, and I am increasingly sensitive to the ways in which my body size colors my experiences. Gone are the days when we have to choose the parts of us that get a seat at the table. I want the fullness of who we are as individuals and as an embodied community to enter this virtual exhibition and take up all the space necessary. Let us ponder these 3 centered identities and so many more whilst we expand the face of queer ceramics and humanize the folks who have made themselves so open and vulnerable in answering the call to participate in this exhibition.”
Learn more about Deshun Peoples
Please join us for a virtual artist panel taking place on Zoom on June 20, 2024 at 7 PM EST. Register here
