February Open House: Black History Month Exhibit Reception

Close out Black History Month by supporting local Black artists and experiencing powerful, unapologetic work in a space designed to move you. Expect complimentary craft cocktails all night, magnetic energy, and a room filled with people who care deeply about art, culture, and community.

Voted as one of the top three places to see art in Austin, this woman and immigrant-owned gallery is proud to present this bold and intentional exhibit.

About the exhibit:

Unmuted is a living conversation—one that traces memory, resilience, and storytelling across generations. Through painting, symbolism, landscapes, and imagined worlds, the artists explore Black identity as both inheritance and becoming. The work on view honors ancestral wisdom while asserting presence, agency, and possibility in the now. More than an exhibition, this is an experience—rooted in history, alive in the present, and meant to be felt.

Want to meet the artists? Join us for a limited-access Artist Talk prior to doors for an intimate look at the exhibit through the artists' eyes.

Event details:

~Tickets include access to an open bar featuring craft cocktails, local beer + spirits

~Opportunity to view and shop the exhibit

~Meet the featured artists

~View and shop hundreds of original artworks by Austin's largest women and nonbinary artist collective, atxGALS

~Only opportunity to shop prints beginning at $15 from 35+ of the top, emerging artists in Austin

About the featured artists:

Audrianna Woods is a multidisciplinary artist who has been creating art full-time for the past seven years. Her work centers on Afrocentric themes, celebrating African heritage, Black identity, and ancestral narratives through bold colors, symbolic elements, and expressive forms.

"This collection is a visual tribute to African heritage, Black resilience, and ancestral memory, created in honor of Black History Month. Through bold, earthy colors, African symbolism, masks, and spiritual elements, my work explores the connection between past, present, and future within Black identity. Influenced by many styles, I layer forms and perspectives to reflect the complexity of our stories… stories of survival, creativity, and cultural pride. Each piece serves as a bridge between ancestral wisdom and contemporary expression, inviting viewers to reflect, remember, and celebrate the enduring power of African roots and Black storytelling."

Grace Nguchu is a contemporary artist based in Austin, Texas. Growing up in Nairobi, Kenya, she was deeply inspired by her surroundings - the People and diverse expansive landscape, which evoked a sense of belonging and adventure. Nguchu regards her practice as a form of visual storytelling using vibrant colors to explore the beauty, fragility and resilience inherent in both humanity and the natural world

"I paint the natural world and human figure as vessels of beauty, resilience, and memory. Guardians of histories both seen and felt. My work is an act of preservation, holding space for what is being slowly eroded, degraded or lost...Preservation, for me, is not loud or didactic; it is intimate. To honor beauty is to protect it. By inviting viewers to recognize the land as something familiar and the human figure as elemental, I seek to nurture a deeper sense of care for both. My paintings are meditations on belonging, memory and responsibility – to each other and to the world that sustains us."

Hailey Gearo is an abstract expressionist who dips into surrealism. Working predominantly with acrylic-based paint and glitter on canvas. Artist Hailey Gearo has been able to contribute her takes on themes regarding mental health and her ever-changing reality through her ongoing practice. Hailey creates dreamscapes of her inner world. Storytelling her personal lore on the way to a deeper understanding of self.

'Art is revolution. Rebellion meant to deconstruct old systems, and in its place build hallowed ground for architects to transmute scarcity into abundance. Within the world building in her paintings, Hailey creates dreamscapes that live in liminal spaces. But now she brings these spaces out of mind and into this dimension. Storytelling her personal lore on the way to a deeper understanding of self and connections through sharing the most raw parts of her psyche.'

About The Cathedral:

The Cathedral is a Latina-owned art gallery, event space, and boutique workspace located in a beautifully restored 1930s church in East Austin. As the home of atxGALS, the city's largest collective of women and nonbinary artists, The Cathedral features a dynamic range of artwork throughout the year, alongside hosting unique, art-centered events.

Thank you for supporting local women + nonbinary artists and a local Latina-owned business!

Tickets are priced intentionally to cover the costs associated with the production of our shows, marketing efforts and to support our mission to provide an elevated space for emerging artists to shine. At The Cathedral, we have a unique gallery commission structure to ensure more money is going directly to the artists. Supporting our events enables this mission.

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