How we care: Visualizing our loving community

featuring artists Kellie Blackburn, Anna Buckner, Lea Calloway, C. Choice, Maggie Flanigan, Joel Franquiz, Makenzie Goodman, Gracen Hiatt Aidan Kiser, Gabrielle Knight, Lou Murrey, Theresa Redmond, Becca Stickler, Joshua White, and Edward Kastiel Williams

May 2024

Watauga County Arts Council - Boone, NC

 
 

“let me be

a witness to love

stand on the outside

and see tenderness

unbidden

kind words

and a lover’s sweet touch

let me be

a witness to love

see each sacrifice surrendered

how patient and joined

such open heart

let me see and then believe”

- bell hooks, When Angels Speak of Love

As we embrace the warmth and reflection in winter’s deepest breath, before the soil exhales

daffodil blooms alongside their floral kin, imagine a celebration of loving community.. How might

our photographs hold the tenderness and complexities of our connections, both human and

beyond? What does it look like to nurture and care for those relationships? How can we create

images that allow us to dream into a future where these interconnections are our most cherished

commitment?