2024 Exhibition: Not Yet/Always Been

Not Yet/Always Been: An Archive of Queer Louisville | Schneider Hall Galleries 

September 12- October 31, 2024

Not Yet / Always Been emerges from the classroom and the archives. The exhibition is a product of collaborative discussions and debates that a mixed graduate and undergraduate seminar provides. It showcases the material stuff of the Williams-Nichols Collection, yet it also puts on display the affective and imaginative—our creative processes of discovering hope and belonging in the archive. This project is a collective enterprise to envision from Louisville's queer past a future that complicates the normative scripts that dictate how a life should be lived. Mining the past, we reimagine how desire, intimacy, family and community take shape and appear in both the public and domestic sphere.

Image: Photo of "blessing party" from Lesbian Wedding series, 1986, William-Nichols Collection