Art Factory Member RoByn Thompson is participating in 'Voices'. VOICES: A Celebration of Our people and Our stories in Art

 

An Exhibition of LGBTQQIA Artists and Artists of Color with a Focus on Harlem Artists to be held June 9^th to July 3^rd, 2013at the Casa Frela Gallery, 47 West 119^thStreet (between Lenox and Fifth Avenues) in Harlem. 

 

The Casa Frela Gallery and Artist  Curator, Ricardo Muñiz, are proud to present,VOICES: A Celebration of Our People and Our Stories in Art.  Curated by photographer Ricardo Muñiz, this exhibit will examine the varied voices of our LGBTQQIA community and our communities of color and those who support and love us.

 

The exhibit will run daily from June 9 to July 3 with a special Harlem Pride opening set for Thursday, June 20, from 5 pm to 9 pm.

 

The Exhibiting Artists represent a variety of media (photography, drawing, sketching, painting, mixed media, cartoons, sculpture and graphics).  The message, though, is loud and clear: "We are here, coño, and we shall be heard."

 

Harlem artists are heavily featured with secondary preference given to LGBTQQIA artists living in other communities of color throughout New York and beyond.  FORTY percent of the proceeds from the sale of work on display will be donated to LGBTQQIA organizations providing support services for LGBTQQIA youth in Harlem and Spanish Harlem.

 

VOICES is an exhibition about our voices, our people, our struggle , our communities and our unity.  VOICES includes voices of pride, anger, despair, love, rage, lust, pain, and happiness.  Whatever the message in the art, it is strong and it is clear.