PERMISSION TO BREATHE

Positive Space Opens 2026 Programming February 7 with Group Exhibition Permission to Breathe: A Black Woman’s Perspective on Living Life Unapologetically

Permission to Breathe: A Black Woman’s Perspective on Living Life Unapologetically is a vibrant, multidisciplinary art exhibition celebrating the brilliance and boundlessness of Black Women. Curated by Artists Ebony Iman Dallas, Elizabeth Feahther Henley, and Jaiden Jiji McClellan, this show centers the voices, visions, and lived experiences of Black Women Artists who dare to exhale fully, take up space, and create without constraint.

Through diverse artistic practices, the works engage themes of rest, resistance, joy, ancestral memory, embodiment, and radical self-acceptance. Together, they speak to the necessity and the defiance of breathing freely in a world that too often restricts Black Women’s lived experience. Some pieces affirm breath as a revolutionary right. Others bear witness to the labor, struggle, and endurance required simply to exist. In all forms, the art insists on presence, truth, and agency.

Permission to Breathe invites artists to reflect on intimate, personal journeys by honoring Black Womanhood in all its nuance and complexity. Here, softness and strength coexist, vulnerability is power, and creativity becomes a pathway to healing, reclamation, and unapologetic being. This exhibition is more than an art show, it is a collective exhale. A celebration of survival and joy, and an invitation to witness, participate, and breathe deeply together.

Exhibit Artists: Goldielxcs, Kimberly Thompson, Suzanne Thomas, Tysheona Singleton, Caitlin Varner, Betty Refour, Lyric Manns, Amber N. Wiley, Marie Casimir, Gay Pasley, Cristle Moorer, Elizabeth Feahther Henley, Ebony Iman Dallas and Jiji Rachelle.

Permission to Breathe: A Black Woman’s Perspective on Living Life Unapologetically Curated by Artists Ebony Iman Dallas + Elizabeth Feahther Henley + Jaiden Jiji McClellan

OPENING: 5-9pm, Saturday, February 7, 2025

THRU Saturday, February 28, with additional events during the exhibit to be announced.

Gallery hours during the exhibit: TH 6-8pm + FR 5-8pm + SA 12-5pm + BY APPT

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Contact: Nicole Finley, Founder/Director/Curator - Positive Space Tulsa
[email protected]

Positive Space Tulsa is located at 1324 East 3rd Street in the Pearl District. Positive Space Tulsa was founded by local artist Nicole Finley (she/her). An art space dedicated to Womxn artists, Positive Space Tulsa believes: The letter “x” in Womxn recognizes all women, including gender expansive identities. Positive Space Tulsa is for women, nonbinary, genderfluid, genderqueer, and agender artists (excluding those who identify as male/men). Womxn is pronounced the same as woman or women.

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