Paradise at Stove Works in Chattanooga
Amber Hickey reviews the joyful resistance in Paradise, a group exhibition highlighting queer Southern art at Stove Works, Chattanooga.
Amber Hickey
Amber Hickey (they/them) writes about visuality, activism, and ecology. Their writing has appeared in Aperture (2020), the Routledge Companion to Contemporary Art, Visual Culture, and Climate Change (2021), the Journal of Transnational American Studies Special Issue on Molecular Intimacies of Empire (2022), Power Shift: 101 Words for a New Politics of Energy (West Virginia University Press, 2025), and Seahorses: Trans and Nonbinary Pregnancy (PM Press, 2025), and is forthcoming in a special issue of TDR: A Journal of Performance Studies on “Queer Nightlife.” Their current book project, Visualities of Radical Care: Antidotes to the Necrocene is under contract with University of Minnesota Press. They are Assistant Professor of Art History at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga.
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The Body is a Drum, The Voice a Song, The Soul a Fire at the Knoxville Museum of Art, Knoxville
Amber Hickey reviews the line treaded between art and activism in The Body is a Drum, The Voice a Song, The Soul a Fire at the Knoxville Museum of Art, Knoxville.