Opening Reception: We’re All Healing

Join us for a free opening reception for We’re All Healing: Tending to the Wounds We Were Taught to Hide in our Lindner Gallery on Saturday, January 31 from 6 to 8 pm. The exhibition features commissioned works by ten diverse regional artists, curated by Zuri Ali.

Exhibiting artists: Jamaal Durr, Tobi Ewing, Trudy Gaba, Erin Smith Glenn, Ciara LeRoy, Gift Mayambi, Romain Mayambi, James Pate, Dave Scott, Kimberly Wilfong Sigman.

In a world that often demands our resilience before our rest, We’re All Healing invites vulnerability as an act of resistance. Where there is transparency, there is healing; where there is healing, we can continue to blossom.

This exhibition is an authentic conversation through visual storytelling, examining the harmful ideologies surrounding mental health in Black and marginalized communities. It holds space for what is often considered taboo, softened, hidden, or dismissed. We recognize that within our communities, the language for pain has not always been taught, yet the expectation to pack it away persists as our collection of unspoken pain continues to grow.

We’re All Healing is not simply about what hurts — it is about what happens after the silence breaks. The journey is not meant to be linear, but it must begin. Allow this to be a place that reminds us it’s okay to feel, to name, and to start again.

We’re All Healing is part of the 6th Annual Voices of Freedom in partnership with Juneteenth Cincinnati, with support from a Circle grant from ArtsWave.

Image: Curator Zuri Ali