Meet Your Neighbors: Feminist and LGBTQ+ Perspectives

Meet Your Neighbors: Feminist and LGBTQ+ Perspectives
1619 Flux Art and Activism in Louisville, KY

August 5th – December 22nd 2017
Curated By Jesse Levesque, Kara Nichols, and Jessica Oberdick

The Meet Your Neighbors: Feminine & LGBTQ+ Perspectives Exhibition gives a platform to women and LGBTQ+ people at a time when inequality and prejudice are on the rise in the United States. This exhibition offers artists and audiences an opportunity to express themselves through artworks and connected conversations that challenge current gender and social norms. Meet Your Neighbors: Feminine & LGBTQ+ Perspectives Exhibition is an invitation to create social change through visual artworks, spoken word, dance, connecting conversations, and inclusive dialogue.
Artists –

Carrie Marie Burr / Tom Cannady / Anne Dawkins / Hannah Drake / Tessa Gartin / Dionne Griffiths / Judy Hanekamp / Ashley Renee Hoffman / Joshua Jenkins / Vivian Knox-Thompson / Michael Kopp / R.K. Lemmons-Weber / SK Lockhart / Leo Lopez / Iandras Moontree / Moriah Mudd-Kelly / Isabella Calliope Pearson / LaNia Roberts

About

Jessica Oberdick is a visual artist, curator, and writer. In December 2017, Oberdick graduated from the University of Louisville with her dual Master of Arts and Art History in Critical and Curatorial Studies and Master of Public Administration in Nonprofit Management. She also holds a BFA from Shepherd University, Shepherdstown, WV.

She has contributed to various online platforms including Burnaway and Ruckus Louisville, and was recently published in the international magazine Boshemia. She has curated + co-curated exhibitions at 1619 Flux and KMAC Museum, both in Louisville.

Currently Oberdick is pursuing various writing and curatorial projects, and works as the Exhibitions Assistant at the University of Louisville.

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