OUTCRY
Chase Gallery
August 10, 2024 to September 28, 2024
Whitney Bradshaw
OUTCRY
January 20, 2018 to Present
Since 2018, Whitney Bradshaw has been traveling across the United States with OUTCRY, a social practice project for which she leads womxn in empowering, therapeutic and community building scream sessions photographing participants mid-scream to create a collective portrait of resistance, motivate political action, and build feminist solidarity through radical empathy.
OUTCRY scream sessions give women, non-binary, and genderqueer people permission and a brave place to take up space and be loud. Many participants share stories they’ve never told anyone; some scream for the first time ever. And the resulting photographs — exhibited in floor-to-ceiling grids, carried as larger-than-life portraits at protests, or mounted on billboards and projected in public spaces — present women’s unbridled self-expression without regard to society’s expectations.
As restrictions on reproductive choice and LGBTQ+ rights spread around the nation, OUTCRY brings transformation, amplifying women’s voices with an unflinching belief in their power to make both personal and political change. To date more than 500 women have participated in OUTCRY. Together their portraits create a monumental act of resistance.
Photo Credits:
On left: Joy, 2023 from the series OUTCRY
Click HERE for more information on gallery hours and private appointments.
OUTCRY
Chase Gallery
August 10, 2024 to September 28, 2024
Whitney Bradshaw
OUTCRY
January 20, 2018 to Present
Since 2018, Whitney Bradshaw has been traveling across the United States with OUTCRY, a social practice project for which she leads womxn in empowering, therapeutic and community building scream sessions photographing participants mid-scream to create a collective portrait of resistance, motivate political action, and build feminist solidarity through radical empathy.
OUTCRY scream sessions give women, non-binary, and genderqueer people permission and a brave place to take up space and be loud. Many participants share stories they’ve never told anyone; some scream for the first time ever. And the resulting photographs — exhibited in floor-to-ceiling grids, carried as larger-than-life portraits at protests, or mounted on billboards and projected in public spaces — present women’s unbridled self-expression without regard to society’s expectations.
As restrictions on reproductive choice and LGBTQ+ rights spread around the nation, OUTCRY brings transformation, amplifying women’s voices with an unflinching belief in their power to make both personal and political change. To date more than 500 women have participated in OUTCRY. Together their portraits create a monumental act of resistance.
Photo Credits:
On left: Joy, 2023 from the series OUTCRY
Click HERE for more information on gallery hours and private appointments.
Whitney Bradshaw is an artist, activist, educator, curator, and former social worker whose practice seeks to empower her subjects while challenging the social systems that marginalize and oppress them. Her work has been shown widely across the United States including solo shows at Atlanta Contemporary, the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, the DePaul Art Museum, and Wave Pool Contemporary Art Fulfillment Center. The Museum of Contemporary Photography, the DePaul Art Museum, Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law and Sara M. and Michelle Vance Waddell collect her work which has been published in Ms. Magazine, the New York Times, the Chicago Tribune, and Vogue. This fall Bradshaw was named one of NewCity Magazine’s top 50 Chicago Artists’ Artists. Both she and OUTCRY are the subject of a documentary film titled OUTCRY: Alchemists of Rage directed by Clare Major which is currently in post-production.
Whitney Bradshaw is an artist, activist, educator, curator, and former social worker whose practice seeks to empower her subjects while challenging the social systems that marginalize and oppress them. Her work has been shown widely across the United States including solo shows at Atlanta Contemporary, the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, the DePaul Art Museum, and Wave Pool Contemporary Art Fulfillment Center. The Museum of Contemporary Photography, the DePaul Art Museum, Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law and Sara M. and Michelle Vance Waddell collect her work which has been published in Ms. Magazine, the New York Times, the Chicago Tribune, and Vogue. This fall Bradshaw was named one of NewCity Magazine’s top 50 Chicago Artists’ Artists. Both she and OUTCRY are the subject of a documentary film titled OUTCRY: Alchemists of Rage directed by Clare Major which is currently in post-production.
