2023 Exhibition: Magnifying Voices

For our third annual exhibition titled Magnifying Voices, members were invited to submit works on the theme of freedom, whether personal, artistic, political, or social.

The exhibition highlights a variety of techniques, including bookbinding, folding, quilting, calligraphy, natural dyes, cyanotype, collage, letterpress, printmaking, painting, drawing, and stamping.

The artists’ voices are expressed through myriad forms, but all the works share one thing in common: an expression of the desire for freedom.

The guild would like to thank this year’s exhibition curators, Alex Moonsang and Liliana Gerardi, as well as the participating artists whose extraordinary work features in the exhibition.

You can view the exhibition here on our website and expect the following:

  • Bullets and prayers

  • A box of matches to burn bad ideas

  • Quilted books about racial and gender identities

  • An allegory about an empress who saves her people from disaster

  • Images of women seeking freedom through movement

  • A painted portrait on a book cover

  • A game of self-discovery and love played on a tennis court

  • An homage to artists who inspire others by taking risks

  • A tornado of words tossed by a violent wind

  • A kaleidoscope of images with the freedom to shine with light or burn in celebration

  • An imagined but undiscovered universe

  • Experiments with natural materials

  • Academic research in zine form

  • Prints that ask for respect and acceptance for everyone regardless of sexual or gender identity

2023 Exhibition Opening: Magnifying Voices

2023 Exhibition Gallery: Magnifying Voices

The following artists’ work features in the exhibition:

Karen Esteves ◆ Nikki Fragala-Barnes ◆ Liliana Gerardi ◆ S. Piper Head ◆ Holly Jefferies ◆ Bronwyn Merritt ◆ Alex Moonsang ◆ David Nees ◆ Marie Patrick ◆ Jenifer Patrick ◆ Jacky Prada ◆ Chris Saclolo ◆ Rachel Simmons