CHICAGO—Woman Made Gallery (WMG) is pleased to announce the opening of Seeds of Resilience, a multidisciplinary art exhibition featuring work by 41 artists. The exhibition opens Saturday, April 11, 2026, with a public artist reception from 4 to 7 p.m. and remains on view through May 9, 2026.

Curated by Monica J. Brown and Nora Moore Lloyd, Seeds of Resilience brings together women and non-binary artists whose works explore how personal, cultural, and ecological survival are deeply intertwined. Centered on themes of environmental justice, ancestral memory, and the intimate relationship between care and resistance, the exhibition takes the seed as its guiding metaphor.

Exhibition Events
The exhibition opens with an artist reception at Woman Made Gallery, 1332 S. Halsted St. in Chicago, on Saturday, April 11, from 4 to 7 p.m.

The Closing Reception includes an Artist Walkthrough on Saturday, May 9 from 2 to 4 p.m., offering a final opportunity to meet the participating artists in person. Events at WMG are free and open to the public.

Exhibiting Artists

Brooke Bartholomew, Sharon L Bjyrd, Sharon Bladholm, Gabriella Boros, Julia Bustos-Vasquez, Julie Carpenter, Emily C-D, Lynn Cox-Winston, Sharmon Davidson, Victoria Fuller, DiDi Grimm, Senyah Haynes, Lisa Marie Phoenix Jackson, Natalie Jackson, Adia Jamille, Linye Jiang 江麟冶, Joi, Lilly Kim, Yuliya Klochan, Sarita Kvam, Tulika Ladsariya, Beatriz Ledesma, Andi Linden, Marian Lyndgaard, Lauren Macklin, Erica Moriarty, Stephanie Mulvihill, Andryea Natkin, Courtney Nzeribe, Pamela Penney, Laurie Peters, Leah Schenbaum, Erin K. Schmidt, Piper Snowber, Dorothy C. Straughter, Harriette Tsosie, Chanya Vitayakul, Gail Wagner, Joan Wheeler, Marjorie Woodruff, Stella Zee

Curating Team: Monica J. Brown and Nora Moore Lloyd

Monica J. Brown explores memory, history and personal mythology through visual art, sound, movement, writing and performance. Her visual art has been exhibited widely throughout Chicago, nationally and internationally. Exhibition spaces include: Black Art in America, Atlanta, GA; ARC Gallery, Chicago, IL; Governors State University, University Park, IL; SooVAC, Minneapolis, MN; and Ucross Art Gallery, WY. Monica is a Ucross fellow, and has attended residencies at Atlantic Center for the Arts, Ragdale, and Dorland Mountain Arts Colony, among others. She has created murals with Chicago’s Hubbard Street Mural Project, and Detroit’s Live6 DNA Arts Project.

Monica has received Individual Artist Program grants from Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events, and Individual Artist Support grants from the Illinois Arts Council Agency. She is also a recipient of Columbia College’s Albert P. Weisman Award. She earned a BFA from Otis College of Art and Design in Los Angeles; and an MA in Interdisciplinary Arts from Columbia College Chicago. Her work is in the collections of: Black Art in America, Harold Washington College, and Diasporal Rhythms. Monica is currently represented by SoNa Chicago Contemporary Art.

Nora Moore Lloyd (Lac Courte Oreilles Band of Lake Superior Ojibwe, born 1947) is a multidisciplinary artist trained in photography and videography. Her work documents the stories of Indigenous elders and reflects her connection to cultural practices such as birch bark harvesting and wild rice gathering. A longtime member of Chicago’s Native American community, she divides her time between the city and her Wisconsin home, where she is an enrolled member of the Lac Courte Oreilles Ojibwe Nation.

Raised in the Chicago area, Nora did not discover her Ojibwe heritage until 1983. Reconnecting with relatives in Wisconsin and engaging with Chicago’s Native community deeply shaped her artistic path, guiding her toward photography as a tool for cultural storytelling. Her art has been exhibited at The Block Museum of Art, the Field Museum, the Chicago History Museum, Illinois State Museum locations, Cahokia Mounds Museum, Woman Made Gallery, and internationally in Bolivia and Guatemala.

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Tags: Adia Jamille, Andi Linden, Andryea Natkin, Beatriz Ledesma, Brooke Bartholomew, Chanya Vitayakul, Chicago, Courtney Nzeribe, DiDi Grimm, Dorothy C. Straughter, Emily C-D, Erica Moriarty, Erin K. Schmidt, Gabriella Boros, Gail Wagner, Harriette Tsosie, Joan Wheeler, Joi, Julia Bustos-Vasquez, Julie Carpenter, Lauren Macklin, Laurie Peters, Leah Schenbaum, Lilly Kim, Linye Jiang 江麟冶, Lisa Marie Phoenix Jackson, Lower West Side, Lynn Cox-Winston, Marian Lyndgaard, Marjorie Woodruff, Natalie Jackson, Pamela Penney, Piper Snowber, Sarita Kvam, Seeds of Resilience, Senyah Haynes, Sharmon Davidson, Sharon Bladholm, Sharon L. Bjyrd, Stella Zee, Stephanie Mulvihill, Tulika Ladsariya, Victoria Fuller, Woman Made Gallery, Yuliya Klochan