Exhibition opening

Second Floor Gallery Screened In: Deconstructed by Jasmine Best Opening Reception: Saturday May 11, 6:00 - 10:00 Screened In: Deconstructed celebrates the nostalgia of the porched childhood, it reconciles the sun and the mosquitoes of the homecoming, and remembers the matriarch of the porch with all of her complexities. Despite its rightful place as a true southern icon, the Southern front porch has found itself disappearing for years. The porch as a public forum for storytelling has changed, and can be found online but the call and response of the teller and the audience still remains. Exhibition on view until Sunday, June 23rd, 2024 Artist Bio Jasmine Best is a true Southern Artist, gathering narratives from her Carolinian family and childhood. The North Carolina based artist uses her personal memories and manipulations of her memories to create dialogues about the black femme identity in the south and in predominantly white spaces. She received a New Media Design BFA from University of North Carolina at Greensboro where she found her love of working with tangible and traditional mediums combined with digital means of art making. Her work often depicts maternal figures, each depicting the diversity and qualities that make up the black southern women in her life through several generations Website: jasminebest.com Instagram: @jasminebestart