Collective Drip
2025
New Orleans, Louisiana
Artworks shown are selected from works submitted by the artist in their grant or residency application. All works are copyright of the artist or artist’s estate.
Vee Adams is an artist from New Orleans working at the intersection of print, zine, and installation to envision queer/trans futures. They are currently a co-curator of the Queer Ecology Hanky Project, an ongoing traveling print exhibition with interdisciplinary programming, featuring over 120 artists. Adams has shown their work at galleries across the US, including the Carrack Modern Art Gallery (NC), the Brewhouse Gallery (PA), and the Contemporary Art Center of New Orleans (LA). They have attended residencies at institutions such as Women’s Studio Workshop (NY), Penland School of Crafts (NC), and La Ceiba Gráfica (Veracruz, MX). They received their Masters in Fine Arts at the University of New Orleans (UNO).
Joan Mitchell Center Residency, 2026
In my practice, I explore the eccentric livelihoods of the more-than-human world—the everyday alchemy of the life cycles of fungi, the radical transformations of microorganisms, and the resilience of lichens. As a trans and queer person, I’ve been thinking about what happens when the body is reframed as a landscape—a site of inevitable growth and change—and communities are re-envisioned as ecosystems—vital and multi-species networks.”