Exhibit Celebrates Trans Artists With Self Portraits And Poetry
0:53 The exhibit is curated by Saad Ghosn and grew out of a workshop created by artist Jay DeFazio. His project "Inside Out" is a community-based art initiative "celebrating the strength, beauty, and resiliency of transgender individuals." He helps workshop participants conceive and create mixed-media self portraits. "It can be abstract; it can be literal," DeFazio explains. "It can be metaphorical; it can be words. This doesn't have to be representative of your entire life, this could be one aspect of who your are. Any part of your identity." Untitled self portrait by Ashton Michael Lee. ...