Hedreen Gallery

Exhibition Celebration and Quilting Bee!
This Wednesday May 21st, 4-7pm
Free and Welcome to ALL!
Free Snacks and Drinks

We will celebrate the often invisible labor of care takers - communally, as well as the artists currently exhibited in Taking Care: Embrace with Tenderness with , , and Under the Same Moon:

Join us in collectively binding a quilt made of fabric cyanotypes printed with artifacts of care taking. These cyanotypes were made by our community as workshop attendees on May 3d, led by exhibiting artist Adair Freeman Rutledge. Circle around the quilt as we craft, sewers may come in and out as they wish.

ALL are welcome to join the celebration, no labor required.

Join us this Thursday, February 13, 2025 at the Hedreen Gallery from 5 PM to 8 PM to witness The Boundaries of Denial.

The Boundaries of Denial is a performance work in which the dancer Lola Lewis hides, harbors, and sets boundaries around that which artist Molly Jae Vaughan desires and requires for protection, longevity, and survival as a tr*******al. Throughout the duration of the performance, Vaughan moves through the Hedreen Gallery seeking symbolic objects representing real life needs to exist in the USA as a visible tr*******al woman. Lewis, using her physical form, her expressions, and her voice, blocks, rejects, and emotionally neutralizes Vaughan. The objects representing family acceptance, social acceptance, employment, medical access, and government identification are gathered and placed within a protected space, a circle representing the artist trans essence and life force.

Alt Text: A decorative arrangement with dried leaves, beads, and a fabric patch featuring an eye and hand symbol.

You’re ALL Invited: To the Exhibition Opening Celebration of Molly Jae Vaughan: Transition as Performance, Life as Resistance

Join us Monday, January 20, 2025, 6-9pm, for our first exhibition program: Community Labor as Determent to Trans Eradication, a Printing Action Against Transphobic Fascism. On Inauguration Day, we will gather and screenprint a message of resistance alongside Vaughan and each other. Bring your own white or brightly colored t-shirt for printing. And posters will be provided with distribution guidance.