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Join Gallery X and DATMA on Friday, June 13 from 6-8pm as we celebrate Pride in the SouthCoast with the opening receptions for 2 amazing new exhibitions, Being Seen and Answering Our Ancestors. Come and enjoy drinks & accoutrements, while we celebrate and honor all involved.

Being Seen is a community-driven public art statement expressing unity throughout the region featuring a tapestry created by over 100 artists from Fall River to Wareham. This tapestry will be installed on the front of New Bedford City Hall and the walls of Gallery X. To provide deeper significance to the public art component and connecting our region with this important movement the exhibition will also feature a focus on the legacy of local figures such as David B. Boyce (1949-2014), who was portrayed in the important, renowned sculpture by artist George Segal, "The Gay Liberation Monument."

Welcoming remarks wil take place at 6:45 including a reading by New Bedford's Poet Laureate, Sarah Jane Mulvey. Mulvey has invited a fellow Queer poet as her guest on the stage to also perform a piece in honor of the festivities. Following introductions, the Being Seen visiting creative director, Liz Collins will provide an artist talk offering insights about her experiences using arts as an activist platform to elevate the Queer community.

At 7:30 guests may partake in a director's tour of the public art component of Being Seen. The tour will start at Gallery X and lead to City Hall. The group is invited to continue down to DATMA's second public artwork, "Moodvironment," a color changing light sculpture by Mona Ghandi.

In the Douglass Gallery Answering Our Ancestors, curated by Kate Frazer Rego, features artwork and ephemera that honors the joy, hopes, struggles, lives, and stories of the LGBTQIA+ community.

Gallery X would like to thank New Bedford Creative for sponsoring Answering Our Ancestors!

This event is free and open to the public.

The exhibitions will be on view through July 12.