Collective Drip: A MFA Thesis Exhibit by Vee Adams

Vee Adams, Collaborators in Transformation: Mimosa Cocoon, Aquatint, Chine Collé, Gouache, Collage, Gold Leaf, and Encaustic (2025)

The UNO St Claude Gallery is pleased to present Vee Adams’s MFA thesis exhibition, Collective Drip. Through intimate etchings and print installations, Vee Adams explores possibilities for queer and trans futures full of riotous life. Adams asks, what’s possible, when the body is held as a dynamic landscape—a site of inevitable growth, decay, and transformation? What shifts, when communities are reenvisioned as ecosystems—vital networks built on multi-species connection? Amidst the current onslaught of anti-trans rhetoric, which seeks to isolate and suppress trans individuals and identities, this exhibition erupts with queer and trans bodies—and their more-than-human kin—exuberant and uncontainable.

This exhibition will be open May 10th through June 7th, with an opening reception on May 10th, from 6:00–9:00 pm. There will be live music from 6:30-7:30 pm. with Pousser Vite (queer cajun loops), and DJ Pescadilla will be playing cumbia afterwards. Refreshments will be served. There will be an artist talk at the show’s closing June 7th at 6pm. The exhibition, reception, and public programming are free and open to the public. Gallery hours are Saturdays and Sundays, 12:00 to 5:00 p.m.

Vee Adams is a printmaker and artist from New Orleans. They are currently a co-curator of the Queer Ecology Hanky Project, an ongoing traveling print exhibition with interdisciplinary programming, featuring over one hundred and twenty artists. Adams has shown their work at galleries including—the Carrack Modern Art Gallery (NC), the Brewhouse Gallery (PA), and the Contemporary Art Center of New Orleans (LA). They have attended residencies at institutions such as Women’s Studio Workshop (NY), Penland School of Crafts (NC), and La Ceiba Gráfica (Veracruz, MX). They are currently a Masters in Fine Arts candidate at the University of New Orleans (UNO), where they have been teaching Foundation Courses in color and communication theory.

If you would like more information about this exhibition, or to schedule an interview with

Vee Adams, please call 504-301-7696 or email v.adams.prints@gmail.com. Further

information about the artist is also at https://vadamsprints.com.

Vee Adams, Collaborators in Transformation: Cereus Cactus Chrysalis, Aquatint, Chine Collé, Gouache, Collage, Gold Leaf, and Encaustic (2025) 

Vee Adams, Cruising in the Undergrowth (23,000 possible partners), Aquatint,  Gouache, Gold Leaf, and Encaustic (2025)