The Queer Ecology Hanky Project

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.

Plains Art Museum thanks our generous PlainsArt4All members and donors, and our Organizational Partners for their support. Additional support provided by The McKnight Foundation, FM Area Foundation, The Arts Partnership, The FUNd at Plains Art Museum, and the North Dakota Council on the Arts, which receives funds from the North Dakota Legislature and the National Endowment for the Arts.

Queer Ecology Hanky Project exhibition at Irma Freeman Center for Imagination, Pittsburgh, PA, February-March 2020. Image courtesy of Vanessa Adams, with permission from the artists.