Join us for at the gallery for a curatorial talk and exhibition tour with Rae Richards, the guest curator behind the 2025 Rough Gems exhibition, Transnavigation: Coming into the Body as Home. Led by Union Hall’s Chief Curator, Esther Hernandez, we will be discussing the concept, inspiration, and selected works in the exhibition.
About Transnavigation
Transnavigation captures a broad landscape of tools being used by trans folks to move through inside and outside worlds. This exhibition investigates how trans jewelers are navigating their bodies and the world their bodies exist in—whether through reinterpreting tools, inventing alternate ways of being, revisiting ancestral practices. It is an invitation to sit in the skin of our bodies, to practice being unsingular, fractured and whole, never allowing urgency or burning injury to deny intricate, fleshy, tumultuous, stories. Artists include Leslie Dylan Boyd, Camille Garcia, Maxwell Davis, Paisley Rose, Sulo Bee, and Omar Monroy.
Transnaviagation will be on view through Saturday, February 8.
rae richards
rae (they/them) is an artist and designer growing mutant objects that play with gender and sexuality. They will hold a BS in Industrial Design with minors in Sexualities and Jewelry from Metropolitan State University of Denver by December 2024. Their interests range from queer theory and object-oriented ontology to industrial manufacturing processes and spirituality. rae has exhibited across the US and the EU, shown works at Munich Jewelry Week, Baltimore Jewelry Center, and on the runway at the McNichols building in Denver. They have been featured in the Society of North American Goldsmiths Metalsmith publication and awarded travel grants to attend jewelry weeks nationally and internationally. rae lives and work in Denver and works to build a stronger local jewelry community that embraces a diverse range of approaches to contemporary adornment.