Wild Goose Creative is proud to present June’s Wild Gallery, Gay Audacity, featuring Becca Fredin, Meara Ashton Reeder, Rachel Wallis, and Trevor Smith.

Becca Fredin is a trans and disabled white self-taught quilter, and who is just beginning to think about their sewing as art. Their pieces are created to process difficult shifts at their day job, and only recently did they consider that quilting may hold a larger place in their life. The subjects of their work are a mixture of queer identity, depression, and more recently, the world as perceived by their 3-year-old child.

Meara Ashton Reeder is a figurative oil painter, whose work suspends viewers in surrealist scenes that meld poignant beauty into atmospheres straddling the resonance of real life and trauma-induced nightmares. His art is a dialogue with themes of capitalism, the rural Midwest, transmasculinity, queerness, and neurodivergency, challenging conventional narratives and offering a nuanced exploration of the intersection of these identities. Through layered visual metaphors, often including animals, his paintings explore the self in relation to surroundings and systems one habituates, depicting how our identities shape and are shaped by our environment.

Rachel Wallis is a queer community taught artist, activist, and crafter whose work spans the divide between fine art and craft. Her practice draws on the traditions of community quilting circles to create art and engage in social change around issues of prisons, policing, and climate justice.

Trevor Smith is a sculptor, metalsmith, and jeweler who works with a variety of mediums. Their work touches on aspects of sexuality and queer experiences through the lens of religious trauma and the coping that comes from negative experiences with religion.