Available for viewing all of March at the Courtright Memorial Library.

Panel Reception Event March 20^th @ 6:15pm, 2^nd floor of the Courtright Memorial Library.

The Courtright Memorial Library is proud to host the work of local Columbus photographer and artist, Emma Parker, in this March long temporary art exhibit. This is the first event of its kind for our Library! In addition to the public exhibit, which will span the 1st and 2nd floors, we are holding a Panel Reception event on March 20th, at 6:15pm. Co-moderated by Otterbein’s Office of Social Justice and Activism’s own Ellie Barrientes, the panel will feature your fellow Cardinals, alum, as well as local members of the Trans and LGBTQIA2S+ community as they tell their stories in an informal discussion that welcomes kind, thoughtful, and genuine audience participation. We will be fundraising for the Otterbein William P. Fotis & Samuel J. Gentile LGBTQIA+ Student Emergency Endowment as well as the Westerville Queer Collective and The Trevor Project. The Reception Panel will be catered. INST Approved! 

The Trans Visibility Project is about welcoming one of the most marginalized communities and making them VISIBLE. This is all about #TransVisibility. #TransRights are so much more than just bathrooms and pronouns–they are human rights. It’s so important that they have a platform to tell their story and that we listen. It is our hope that we can keep moving forward and affect more meaningful changes each and every day. 

Over the past few years, Emma Parker has had some amazing people in their studio, learning their stories and shooting their portraits. Each of them has such a profound story that deserves to be heard by the world! Please join us in celebrating Gender Equity Month and the lives of these beautiful members of our Westerville and Columbus communities.