First Gallery Show In The Books, Second Is In The Works!

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The Signs of Resistance Show was a great success, if your definition of success is that we got it all done and it was seen by other eyes than mine!

The next show will be in late June, and it will be an LGBTQIA+ Pride Month show! It is in the early planning stages. It will most likely be on the last weekend of June, and we are looking for submissions! Who can submit: anyone of any age who identifies in any way as LGBTQIA+, or considers themselves an active queer ally, and lives nearby enough to get their art here! Priority will obviously be given first to LGBT+ folks, then to allies. Please contact me at comingupviolets@gmail.com if you are interested in exhibiting!

WE STRONGLY encourage youth and artists who have never been in an exhibition to submit art.

These events are completely free and open to the public, we put them on at our own expense, and we want to keep doing them to increase exposure and opportunities for artists and other people in our area who are left-leaning, anti-fascist, LGBTQIA+, disabled, and otherwise placed at risk by the agenda of this regime.

If you would like to help us continue to do this, you can do so by visiting the SHOP tab on this website, or at ko-fi.com/comingupviolets! In the meantime, enjoy the photos of last night's exhibit of protest art in the era of MAGA.

Not all of the photos have alt text, but those that don't have alt text are just different angles of the same signs that have already been described in the photos with alt text, so that visually impaired people can hear a description of each sign featured in the show.

Birmingham, Alabama fabric artist and yoga instructor Meg Coleman exhibited her anti-ICE quilt and appliqué banner.

Two photos of Birmingham, Alabama fabric artist Meg Coleman standing in front of her work. Meg is a white woman who appears to be in her forties, with long, slightly silvery dark blonde hair, a light lime green cotton jacket and a long black dress. In the photo on the left, she points at her fabric appliqué banner which reads, "united we stand, abolish I.C.E." and features five small gingerbread-man-shapes in different skin tone colors. To the left of her banner is a sign I painted myself. It's tall and skinny with just one or two words per line, and it reads, "When will you realize what you put in office?" The words 'put in' are alone together on one line, and are painted dark red instead of black so that it appears to spell out the name "Putin." Beneath these signs are tables covered in food and drink. In the photo at right, she stands smiling in front of her 39 by 39-inch pieced quilt, titled "Interdependence." It depicts a neighborhood, with corners and border depicting blue skies with little white puffy clouds, four houses on each side of the quilt, with little pathways leading to a black rectangle representing a street, and within the center of the black rectangle are spelled out the words, "I.C.E. out," with another little house inside the letter C.

Many signs, including several made by local teens and children, were loaned to us by the local Dekalb County Democratic Club. We absolutely forgot to take photos once the event started, but here are the photos we took of the space right before everyone arrived, so you can see the exhibit yourself!