QUEERTOPIA Poetry and Open Mic Night

Exhibition Dates: June 28 - July 14, 2024

Poetry and Open Mic Night: Friday, July 5, 2024 6-8 PM

Curated by

Cj Daly & Gray Winburne

Gallery Hours: Fridays 6-8 PM, Saturdays 12-5 PM, & Sundays 12-5 PM

Queertopia is an exhibition about how queer artists foster joy and find community. It is the creation of our ideal queer world - inviting the viewer into our “queertopia”, submerging them in uninhibited queer love, allowing the beauty of queerness to be reflected upon them. Each artist has created work that showcases their unique queer experiences both as individuals and as members of a community. These personal displays of queerness blend together, forming a queer unity that is far beyond just ourselves. Joy is an act of resistance, and helps to build solidarity between queer people necessary to continue to carry on as we are and thrive in this world. This show documents every artist’s journey of radical acceptance and finding a chosen family; with this show, we invite the viewer to be a part of that family.

About the curators:

Cj Daly

Cj Daly is a lesbian curator and artist based in Boston, MA. They are currently a student at the SMFA at Tufts pursuing a BFA. Cj has been running their own start up gallery in Boston for the past three years with the goal to create spaces for rising artists to showcase their work in immersive and intimate exhibition that allow the viewer to connect with the art and artists in a deeper way. To stay connected with Cj’s curatorial endeavors follow @plungegallery on instagram

Gray Winburne

Gray Winburne is a fat queer artist, educator, and curator based in Boston, MA. They recently graduated with an MFA from SMFA at Tufts and have a BA in from Brown University. Their creative work centers around collectivity and collaboration as a method for forming community, specifically in the intersections of craft, queerness, and hopeful futures. They have shown work across Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Texas, including at Abigail Ogilvy Gallery, Kathryn Schultz Gallery, and a solo show in the Launchpad of Boston Sculptors Gallery. They also have had other curatorial projects, with a special highlight being a "Students Curate Students" show awarded by Tufts University Art Galleries. You can find them at @_grayse_ on Instagram