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Installation view of UNABASHED RELICS: Queer Intimacies from the art of Alex Blom + Jack Manion at Revelry Boutique + Gallery. June, 2026. Throughout the beginning half of this year, I began work curating an exhibition at Revelry Boutique + Gallery specifically intended to highlight artists from the LGBTQ+ community. As a retail gallery, Revelry presents local and regional artists through a market-driven platform, balancing exhibitions that resonate with Louisville audiences

Queerness exists- and flourishes- far beyond the nation's major metropolises. In the hills and small towns of Kentucky, where it is often at tension, queerness long finds itself in artistic expression, poetic escapism, and memory. Cierra Evans, In Spite of Ourselves, Oil on Canvas (2025). On Loan from the Collection of Jonathan Coleman. Presented at the University of Louisville’s Cressman Center for Visual Arts and curated by graduate student Gray Koesters as the culmination

The artist-curator is not simply someone who occupies two professions simultaneously. Rather, they practice a mode of cultural production in which making, researching, exhibiting, and interpreting become reciprocal acts of knowledge-making. Artists are founding exhibition spaces, turning their living rooms into open-house galleries, organizing independent projects and pop-ups, writing criticism, and constructing archives along their studio work.