The Queer Ecology Hanky Project

June 17, 2024 - December 15, 2024

The Ruth and Seymour Landfield Atrium

The Queer Ecology Hanky Project (QEHP) is an ongoing traveling exhibition organized by Vee Adams and Mary Tremonte that features over one hundred and twenty artists from across North America.

Emerging from a culture of coded communication in the early 1970s, as well as possessing the ability to communicate different expressions of gender and sexuality, QEHP arrives in Fargo-Moorhead to galvanize creatives in celebrating the “wide spectrum of print mediums and methods” and to grant a window “into divergent possibilities for gender and sexuality, and models of resilience and resistance in a world that feels increasingly bleak.” QEHP highlights a diverse assemblage of several areas of study that express a unity of desires: creating wearable artwork, printing methods/techniques, and finding affinity with animals, plants, mycelia, and each other. Adams and Tremonte plan to visit in early August to collaborate with local  artists, scholars, and the community in several events that will coincide with FM pride celebrations.

QUEER ECOLOGY HANKY PROJECT is: V Adams, Eana Agoplan, Dana Aleshire, Fiona Avocado, Finley Baker, Luca Bartlow, Douglas Baulos, Jacques Beas,  Karen D. Beckwith, Chris Bernstein, Andrea Perez Bessin, Boyce Bivens, Amanda Blix, Milica Bogetic, Bohemian Press, Aja Bond, Natasha Brennan, Ginger Brooks Takahashi, Jim Bullard, Eli Campanaro, MC Carey, Ruben Castillo, Devon Cohen, Jen Cooney, Molly Costello, Amy Cousins, Lorraine Cruz, J. Avery Theodore Daisey, TK Dinh, Alek de Dochas, Heather Douglas, Jessika Fancy, Avram Finkelstein, Zeph Fishlyn, Kerri Flannigan, Pidge Fletching, Keith Foster, Carlee Freeman, Lindsey French, Matta Ghaly, Clement Hil Goldberg, Stephen Grebinski, Mia Greenwald, Jacq Groves, L Hammel, Ian Hanesworth, Mel Hardy, Luce Hartsock, Erika Hattori, E Henderson, Juana Estrada Hernandez, Tristan Higginbotham, Eli Howey, Meg Houston, Eileen Jimenez, Hana Jimenez, atiya jones, Katie Kaplan, Devon Kelley-Yurdin, Karey Kenst, Caroline Kern, Joy Tabernacle KMT, Yang Zhen Lee, Rowan Leek, Levi LaBruzzy / 2headedcoralsnake, Malachi Lily, Sam Loewen, Selena Loomis, Ayden Love, Alyx Rene Lunada, Soren Lundi, Drea Marcos, Andy Mauleon, Georgia McCandlish, Sarah McDermott, Kate McNeely, Bekezela Mguni, A-B Moore, Kate Morales, Emilie Mulcahey, Steven Munoz, Mary Murph, Pilar Nadal, Andrea Narno, Celeste Neuhaus, Lex Non Scripta, Jayla Patton, Jason Patten, Zackary Petot, Chris Pilewski, Em Pike, Nevena Pilipovic-Wengler, Cee Please, Kelly Pantoni, Breydon Prioleau, Feliks Pyron, Claire Ragland, Saiyare Refaei, A. Reid, Jenna Reid, Syr Reifsteck, Heidi Andrea Restrepo Rhodes, Almah LaVon Rice, Rigel Richardson, Nora Rickey, Quinn Rivenburgh, Grae Rosa, Avery Rose, Erin Roussel, E.T. Russian, Lucy Satzewich, August Schultz, Nick Shick, H Simon, Willa Smart, Marta Syrup, Lou Tandon,Corinne Teed, Trash Tmblweed, Frankie Toan, Amalia Kalisz Tonsor, Mary Tremonte, Monica Trinidad, Meg Turner, Anna Wagner, Blue Wallick, Gina Washington, Vivien Wise, Summer Wood, Natalie Woodlock, Jon Woolley and Erin Zona

Queer Ecology Hanky Project is organized by V Adams and Mary Tremonte with guest curation by Erika Hattori, Bekezela Mguni, and Andrea Narno. This activity is supported by an Imagine Fund Special Events Grant, an initiative of the University of Minnesota Executive Vice President and Provost, established through a generous gift from the McKnight Foundation, and facilitated by the Institute for Advanced Study. Additional support is provided by the PFund Foundation.

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