We Will Not Be Silent: Art Transforming Rape Culture

We Will Not Be Silent: Art Transforming Rape Culture features four artists who form a network of survivors and supporters addressing sexual violence. Their sensorial works, made from makeup, salt, clay, wood, fabric, and their own bodies, invite viewers to feel the realities of surviving and confront the inextricable links between sexual violence and the institutions that create it. These artists exemplify the ingenuity of resistance. Their work generates possibilities for a future rooted in the experiences and identities of the artists, as queer, trans, multi-racial, disabled, Indigenous, Mexican, and Black.

Each body of art will be displayed alongside the artists’ contributions to the Monument Quilt, a collective project comprised of 3,000 stories from survivors of sexual violence, emblazoned on fabric and displayed in public places. In the spirit of the now concluded Monument Quilt, a series of banners made by UMD students will be on view.