Photographer Whitney Bradshaw has an exhibit, Outcry, opening this fall at Camp Washington's Wave Pool.
But before then, Bradshaw is hosting an open call for women to participate in what she calls "Scream Sessions."
Outcry is a show "in response to the long history of silencing women and girls" that features portraits of them screaming. The exhibit "provides space for women to practice speaking up and out for themselves, to be heard, supported, encouraged, and celebrated," says a release from Wave Pool.
The Scream Sessions will take place 4-6 p.m. Friday, July 17 and 2-4 p.m. Saturday, July 18 at Wave Pool. Anyone is welcome to participate, as part of the goal is to encourage women who don't know each other to expand their community while finding support. But you do have to register via eventbrite.
“During each session, I explain that our voices can save us and share self-defense strategies along with the ways in which my voice has saved me. In each scream session, as I call them, many participants share their experiences as well. The sessions are therapeutic, powerful, and fun," Bradshaw says.
The images, plus an additional 200 or so more, will make up a floor-to-ceiling grid in the gallery, on view Sept. 12-Nov. 14.
"When seen together these intimate representations of our individual power and expression become a monumental act of collective resistance," says Wave Pool.
Bradshaw, chair of the visual art conservatory at the Chicago High School for the Arts, as well as a curator, social worker and mother, began Outcry during the Women's March in 2018. She has taken more than 300 portraits of women.
Wave Pool is located at 2940 Colerain Ave., Camp Washington. More info wavepoolgallery.org.
