Rendering the Invisible - Curated by Zsudayka Nzinga

I’m happy to share that my work has been selected for Rendering the Invisible, a group exhibition curated by Zsudayka Nzinga at Artists & Makers Studios in Rockville, Maryland.

Rendering the Invisible
Curated by Zsudayka Nzinga

July 1- 29, 2026

Opening Reception July 10, 5-7 PM.

Artists & Makers Studios
11810 Parklawn Drive, Suite 210
Rockville, MD 20852

Over the last year, the art scene has been under siege by the United States Presidential administration. Art funding has been stripped from institutions that host exhibitions featuring works by Black artists, LGBTQ+-identified artists, immigrants, first-generation American citizens, women, and more. Many of these shows have been replaced by calls for art examining the 250th anniversary of America, but in a sanitized form. We are being asked to look at Thomas Jefferson, for example, not as a complicated figure, but just as a wonderful man. This scrubbing and repurposing of American history flies in the face of the idea that we are a melting pot country, full of diversity. Rendering the Invisible is an opportunity for artists to address the erasure of the current calls for art. Through photography, sculpture, painting, mixed media, and installation, the 30 artists take space to tell stories that have been left out of the conversations about who is American and what that means.

Curated by Zsudayka Nzinga Terrell, this exhibition places narratives that are often separated in exhibitions in direct conversation. Drawing on a concept in Irving Wheeler’s book, “In Open Contempt,” Terrell positioned images that tell stories that have been actively suppressed in art spaces for highlighting diverse American experiences. Weathersby argues that by focusing on these narratives, we actively pull the suppressed, erased histories out of forced invisibility. 

Stepping outside her usual curatorial focus on Black American artists, Terrell sets out to redefine how we engage with our American identities and experiences from a place of togetherness, against the grain of the divisiveness this administration has encouraged. This exhibition features DC area artists, Quaran Ahmad, Tiya Ayele, D’Mia Britton, Yaa Bonner, Ashlee Brown, Caitie Curtis, Zoraye Cyrus, Anna U Davis, Riya Devi-Ashby, Cameron Felton, Angela Franklin, Mahalia Giesselmann, Deborah Grayson, Ashley Ja’nae Gunter, Adar Howard, Leigh Bell-Koch, Jo Lewis, Leah Lowery, Dunnie Onasanya, Kassondra Pantoja Belle De Costa Green, Annika Papke, Electra Pelias, Genevieve Phelps, Autumn Spears, Elyse Spencer, Fahtimah Tolbert, Itayu Torres Martinez, Aaron Uzzle, Neysa Wellington, and Jazz Williams.

Opening reception for this exhibition is July 10, 2026, from 5-7 PM.