SanaS: A Reflection of Art as Radiance, Healing, Dream and Empathy at The Plan in Chicago. On February 22nd We Will Be Screening OUTCRY: Alchemists of Rage to Close Out The Show!

SanaS is on view at The Plan (610 North Albany Avenue, Chicago, Illinois) from January 17 - February 23, 2025. Exhibiting Artists: Whitney Bradshaw, Mel Cook, Nazafarin Lotfi, Judith Mullen, Melissa Oresky and Edra Soto.

On Saturday, February 22nd at 6 pm and again at 8 pm we will be screening OUTCRY: Alchemists of Rage. The 6:00 screening will be followed by a Q & A with SanaS curator Diana Gabriel and artist, documentary film subject, and producer Whitney Bradshaw. The 8 pm screening will be followed by a Q & A with Philip Spangler, founder and director of The Plan and Whitney. Both Screenings are Free! Watch The Trailer HERE!

Whitney Bradshaw, Jin, 2018 from the series OUTCRY, Archival Pigment Print, 45x30 inches

OUTCRY: Alchemists of Rage Short Documentary Film

OUTCRY: Alchemists of Rage was Directed by Clare Major and features Whitney Bradshaw. The film was produced by Frankly Speaking Films and Whitney Bradshaw. It premiered in June 2024. Since then, Clare and Whitney have been traveling across the country holding screenings followed by Q & A’s in swing states and states with reproductive rights on the ballot leading up to the critical 2024 election. Click on the film’s poster image below to see the trailer, learn more about the short documentary, see upcoming screenings and to support the impact campaign or go to outcryfilm.com

Feminine Gaze, Feminine Rage by Zara Yost for NewCityART August 8, 202

Feminine Gaze, Feminine Rage: In Conversation with Whitney Bradshaw on the Exhibition OUTCRY by Zara Yost. Click the image below to read the full article.

Whitney leads an OUTCRY scream session at 6018|North, Chicago, July 9, 2023. Film Still from “OUTCRY: Alchemists of Rage” (2024), documentary film directed by Clare Major/Photo: Clare Major

Cory screams for the camera during OUTCRY scream session at Yellow Cab Tavern, Dayton, Ohio, November 6, 2023. Film Still from “OUTCRY: Alchemists of Rage” (2024), documentary film directed by Clare Major/Photo: Clare Major

Women Work 2024 at Engage Projects, Chicago August 2 thru September 7, 2024

Thrilled to be showing a group of portraits from Slow Release 2016-2020 in conversation with extraordinary work by Melissa Pinney, Patty Carroll and Maggie Meiners. See the project page here on my website for more information about the series. Click on the image below to go to the Engage Projects site.

Ruby, 2016 from the series Slow Release. Archival Inkjet Print. 28x28 inches.

Ruby and Sidney, 2018 from the series Slow Release. Archival Inkjet Print. 28x28 inches.

OUTCRY Billboard Goes Up in Dayton Ohio Leading Up to Critical 2023 Election!

Leading up to the critical election with the hard fought Issue 1 Reproductive Rights ballot measure on it, Whitney worked with reproductive rights activists in Ohio to install this billboard in a landscape full of religious billboards in Dayton, Ohio. She led OUTCRY scream sessions for the activists and the community prior to the election while joining forces with the activists to share the truth about the measure and encourage people to vote YES on it, despite the Republicans massive and deceitful campaign meant to confuse the population by altering the language of the ballot measure. On November 7, 2023 Ohioans voices were heard and Issue 1 passed, enshrining reproductive rights including abortion into the state constitution!

OUTCRY Billboard. Dayton, Ohio November 7, 2023

Body Sovereignty Artist March. Chicago. April 15, 2023. Organized by Artists Michele Pred, Whitney Bradshaw, and Michelle Hartney

Body Sovereignty: A Fundamental Human Rights Issue 

In the United States, our fundamental rights are under attack, threatening our collective health and well-being. The US Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, revoking our right to control our bodies and have the right to choose something as significant as when to become parents. Fundamentalist conservatives across the country have followed suit, not only further criminalizing abortion, but also gender-affirming care, and most recently passing anti-drag legislation. 

The Body Sovereignty artist march is meant to inform the public of the extremely discriminatory legislation that has passed and to inspire people to take action to protect everyone's bodily autonomy and safeguard the health of our nation. We hope that through our collective activism and our individual artworks we can encourage people to stand up for their rights, those of others, and join us in the fight for a more just and equitable society.

We are not truly free without the fundamental right to control our own bodies and express our unique identities as we choose, without discrimination

Photograph by Mariah Karson

Photograph by Mariah Karson

OUTCRY Projected on Grand Avenue at State Street in Chicago as part of Filter at Night: Women's History Month Exhibition

Over 100 OUTCRY portraits will be projected across 5 windows on Grand Avenue at State Street as part of Filter Photo at Night for the entire month of March, 2023. Viewable hours are between 6 and 10 pm Monday-Thursday and 6 and midnight Friday-Sunday. Click the link icon below to learn more about the exhibition.

OUTCRY Projected on Grand Avenue at State Street in Chicago March 1-31, 2023

"OUTCRY VOTE/Your Silence Will Not Protect You" Risograph Prints Go Up Across the Country Leading Up To the Midterm Elections 2022

While at Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archives for her exhibition there, Bradshaw designed and printed hundreds of Risograph prints to encourage people to VOTE in the critical Midterm Elections. The prints went up in several states leading up to the election, including California, Illinois, Georgia, Indiana, Wisconsin, Washington, and Pennsylvania. Additionally, Bradshaw shared the poster designs widely over social media and sent them to all 420 OUTCRY participants, many of whom put them up in their communities and shared them over social media outlets.

VOTING posters were added to the OUTCRY exhibition at the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archives massive outdoor screen on November 1, 2022. They will remain up through the end of the show on December 1, 2022.

Installation at the Design Museum of Chicago October-November 2022