Queen Boat is entering into a winter hibernation, during which organizers and their advisory circle will conduct research and further develop the space’s sustainability and world-building plan. We’ll keep you updated as Spring happenings unfurl!

Queen Boat’s inaugural exhibit, Death Planted a Garden, completed its cycle in October. We’re still reverberating from the happening! Curated by Pop Box Gallery, The Art Chose Me, and Queen Street Magic Boat, 22 artists traversed seascapes, dreamscapes, space-scapes, and soundscapes that span—out, up, inward, and underground—from the moment of a death. Visual, sound, literary, and multidisciplinary creators explored their lived experiences of loss: loss of a loved one, a culture, an identity, a pet, a neighborhood, a potted fern, a coral reef. How do these deaths connect us to rage, to echo, to revival, to breath, to hauntology, to the yellow Dollar General Sign on a hill once-wooded?

Pop Box Gallery brings zero-commission visual art exhibits and multidisciplinary arts programming to unexpected places. They work to connect local artists to resources, cultivate a culture of arts patronage, and raise the visibility of the Triangle arts community.

The Art Chose Me Increases Access to and Appreciation of the Visual Arts, working with value aligned institutions to engage historically marginalized artists and communities.

Exhibiting Artists: 

adé Oh, Alia El-Bermani, Cassandra Rowe, Catherine Edgerton, Destiny Hemphill, echo hower, Elsa Hoffman, Gadisse Lee, Hiva Kadivar, Hong-An Truong, Ivy Nicole-Jonet, Jim Lee, Jodi Hart, Kaleidoscopic Dream Projexns, Kwaku Osei, Lamar Whidbee, Mavis Gragg, Patrizia Ferreira, R Stein Wexler, Saba Taj, sumi dutta, Teddy Devereux

Images: Catherine Edgerton, Alia El Bermani, Jim Lee, Ivy Nicole-Jonet