Kate Kretz, Sauvage, 2013
Curated by Megan Shaughnessy
Featured Artists
Kevin Van Aelst
D. Douglas
Kaitlin Fung
Shorty Greene
Paul Holmes
Kate Kretz
Rosemary Meza-DesPlas
Jody MacDonald
Caitlin Miller
Liz Miller
Jean Scott
Yvonne Shortt
Amarilis Singh
Jay Sullivan
Sam Sundius
Jody Wood
Curator’s Statement
STRAND is a celebration of the power and significance of all hair including facial, crown, and body hair. The artists showcased in this exhibition highlight the connection hair has to personal, gender, culture, social, and racial identities. Through painting, photographs, sewn images, sculpture, mixed media, video, and spoken word you will see how hair not only has the ability to inspire, empowering self-expression, but it can also create heartache and pain, force unnecessary gender stereotypes, and symbolize the passing of time, illness, and even death.