GLORIA ANN SHOWS

Collaborations
NMWA Nights Poster
National Museum of Women in the Arts
September 2025
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Passing Notes reimagines the act of exchanging words across time, distance, and community. Drawing on feminist lineages of zines, letters, and other forms of shared language, the project transforms the intimacy of a note into a collective gesture. Each carved block carries a phrase--fragments of resistance, care, and solidarity -- that echo the ways women and feminists have always kept each other going.
By selecting and printing these messages together, participants create posters that are both personal and part of a larger chorus. The resulting works act as notes passed hand to hand, reminders of connection and responsibility, and reflections of the communities that hold us up.
Derive Brewing Company
Prints & Pints
August 2024
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This poster explores how longstanding practices, whether in brewing, games, or other communal practices foster connection, joy, and a shared sense of play. I was interested in how traditions endure, adapting over time while retaining their power to bring people together. Classic games, even as they’ve been eclipsed by newer, more complex ones, still hold symbolic weight as reminders of collective enjoyment and imagination.
With this collaboration I set out to bridge past and future, imagining a world where artifacts of play persist and are continually reimagined. I leaned into being a little silly, pulling from board games I loved as a kid and reshaping them into something both familiar and alien.







