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Reception for Strong Ones: An Exhibition by Shaunda Sekai Holloway

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A celebratory reception on for the exhibition "Strong Ones" by Shaunda Sekai Holloway on display at PGR through October 31.

About this event

People Get Ready is honored to display artworks by the amazing Shaunda Sekai Holloway, a local artist of exceptional skill, spirit, depth, and grace. Shaunda's works have been a part of PGR since its inception. Some of them kept us company throughout the pandemic. What a gift! We are so grateful that we are now are able to invite you into our new expanded space to see these painting and collage works alongside others of Shaunda's creation.

This show, Strong Ones, will be up through October 31, 2021. You can visit it anytime during our open hours: Tuesday-Saturday 11-6pm, with slightly extended hours on Fridays (10-8pm).

This reception on Friday, September 24, 6-8pm, will be a simple celebration of Shaunda's complex artworks. Come see these lovely works and and meet the artist herself.

While this is a casual social event, we ask that you please register so we can gauge numbers and plan accordingly.

Thank you in advance for coming to the even vaccinated and wearing a mask while indoors.

MORE ABOUT SHAUNDA SEKAI HOLLOWAY

Shaunda Sekai Holloway is a painter, printmaker, curator, and writer working in New Haven and Hamden. Recently she curated the “Remember My Struggle: Kae Me Br3” exhibition at Southern Connecticut State University, as a part of SCSU’s “1619: A Week of Commemoration” series. 

Holloway’s writing has been published in ESSENCE magazine, CT Post, the Inner City News, New Haven Review, Stand Our Ground: Poems for Trayvon Martin and Marissa Alexander and other publications. Her paintings and prints have been exhibited throughout the East Coast, and across the globe, including New Delhi, India. Most recently, Holloway was named a 2020 New Haven Arts Award recipient.