Southern Kentucky Performing Arts Center (SKyPAC), 2019
Women Who Advocate, Create, and Dominate was a group exhibition featuring first- and second-generation immigrant and refugee women artists living in Kentucky. The show centered creative practice as a form of advocacy, resistance, and cultural continuity, highlighting how personal narrative and traditional knowledge can challenge gender norms while fostering cross-cultural understanding within a rapidly diversifying Southern community.
Presented in conjunction with the Bowling Green International Festival, the exhibition positioned feminist art not as an abstract theory, but as lived experience—rooted in migration, memory, and survival. The artists’ works invited viewers to engage with stories of resilience, intergenerational knowledge, and the complexity of womanhood across cultural contexts.
The project was supported by an Advocacy Grant from the Kentucky Foundation for Women, which enabled all participating artists to be paid for their labor—an intentional curatorial decision addressing the economic precarity often faced by migrant and refugee artists in regional art ecosystems.
Public programming and educational activities accompanied the exhibition, emphasizing dialogue, hands-on learning, and community exchange as integral parts of the curatorial framework. The exhibition functioned as both a visual experience and a social space, foregrounding art as a tool for empathy, cultural visibility, and collective transformation.
Branding and promotional materials for the exhibition were also designed by me.
