Dress Up Speak Up Exhibition Opening

Join us on Saturday, February 15th for the opening of our newest exhibition Dress Up, Speak Up: Regalia and Resistance from 6-8pm. An introduction to the exhibition by 21c Chief Curator Alice Gray Stites at 6:30pm will be followed by a presentation from featured visiting artist April Bey. Hors d'oeuvres and cocktails crafted by The Hive will be available for guests to enjoy. The museum is free and open 24/7, 365 days a year.

More about the exhibition:

Bedecked and bejeweled, the figures populating Dress Up, Speak Up: Regalia and Resistance occupy fluid space and time, evoking past and present, fact and fiction, memory and desire, to illuminate the complexity of contemporary identity. Whether clad in the stylized garb of 18th- or 19th-century Europe, the traditional coverings of ancient religious tradition, or the gender-bending bling of popular culture, these representations of self and other role-play in real time, reaching back through history to address prevailing personal, social, and political challenges.

More about April Bey:

Angeles as a visual artist and art educator. She is currently a tenured professor at Glendale College. Bey’s interdisciplinary artwork is an introspective and social critique of American and Bahamian culture, feminism, generational theory, social media, post-colonialism Speculative futurism/surrealism and Blerd culture. Bey’s two-dimensional mixed media works and installations are from her ongoing Atlantica series. Bey incorporates fur, glitter, vinyl and woven textiles—materials rich in queerness—to craft icons around the images of real-life figures from her community.

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