This February, MFA student Alonzo Pantoja '20 participated in Fresh Fruitz, a group show at Gallery 148 featuring new work by members of Quellective, the LGBTQ+ collective at MCAD. From Quellective, "We are creating a queer space that embodies how we see, create, and inhabit our own bodies. We are talking about queerness not as “other,” but as an opposite necessity. We mean queer as a rejection of—and a solution to—the norm; queer as a force opposing heteronormativity and white supremacy; queer as deconstruction and reconstruction; queer as explicitly more loud, messy, angry, hot, soft, and sensual; queer as performative by nature; queer as undeniable familiarity; queer as in chosen family. We mean queer as in self-aware, as in empathetic, as in communicating with a new and coded (body) language, as in unkillable. This gallery will be made by and for queer people, a space that does not cater to the comfort of the heteronormative viewer. Fresh Fruitz means a sweet and tangy body of work ripe for the picking." Photography by Roshan Ganu. For more information: Alonzo PantojaQuellectiveFresh Fruitz Categories All Student Activities