What’s Your Elephant Art Exhibit


What’s Your Elephant Art Exhibit

When

Saturday, August 18, 2018    
6:00 pm - 10:00 pm

Where

1310 Gallery
1310 SW Second Court, Fort Lauderdale, FL, 33312, Broward County

Event Type

Opening Night + Performance: Saturday, August 18th | 1310 Gallery | 6pm-10pm

Fort Lauderdale, FL –  Artist Niki Lopez will be curating her 10th Annual Art Show at Fort Lauderdale’s 1310 Gallery. She was recently featured on the People Magazine Investigates: Cults series on the Investigation Discovery channel. There, Lopez shared her story of being raised in an abusive cult that thrived on secrecy, until she and other survivors broke their silence, which ultimately brought down the cult and its leader.

This experience inspired her to create a space in her art to share her “elephant” (an obvious truth that is being ignored or otherwise unaddressed) and to passionately provide opportunities for others to do the same. What’s Your Elephant uses a combination of art exhibits, interactive installations, and workshops to provoke and facilitate discussions unveiling issues around gender, discrimination, and abuse.

The upcoming show will feature visual artwork from Lopez, Adewale Adenle, Natalya Kochak, Teepop, Mary Catello, Wilbert Simpson, Naomi Ross, Tabatha Mudra, Artists for Black Lives Matter Collective and Stonewall National Museum & Archives.

Attendees are invited to participate with an interactive installation to share their “elephant.” Lopez will also host a  “What’s Your Elephant” workshop at the location of this exhibition’s community partner – Stonewall National Museum & Archives on Thursday, August 2, 2018. Participants will use creative arts in a safe space to reveal individual or societal “elephants” impacting their lives. “It’s about acknowledging it [the elephant] owning it, so that it doesn’t define you,” says Lopez.

Admission is free and open to the public. This exhibition presents materials of a sensitive nature. Viewer discretion is advised.

Opening night will be hosted by poet Mori Taye and includes performances by Inez Barlatier, Venus Rising: Women’s Drum & Dance Ensemble, Dillon, Morgyn Danae, G. Winston James, Charnell Richards and Chelsea Ward.

Sponsors: Niki Lopez Creative, 1310 Bandits Collective, Very GTV, Panku Literary and Arts Magazine, The National Gardenia Society, and the 1310 Gallery.

Stonewall National Museum & Archives: Stonewall, our 2018 Community Partner, is a nonprofit, tax-exempt 501(3) that promotes understanding through preserving and sharing the proud culture of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people and their significant role in society.

Funding for this project is provided in part by the Broward County Board of County Commissioners as recommended by the Broward Cultural Council and from the Community Foundation of Broward: Fonda, and H. Wayne Huizenga, Jr. Family Trust Fund, Gary J. Scotto Fun and Mary and Alex Mackenzie Community Impact Fund.

Opening night RSVP: https://whatsyourelephant-artopening0818.eventbrite.com

To learn more about What’s your Elephant, visit our website: http://nikiartstudio.com/whats-your-elephant