Since 2018, Whitney Bradshaw has been traveling across the United States with OUTCRY, a social practice project for which she leads women in empowering, therapeutic, and community building “scream sessions,” photographing participants mid-scream to create a collective portrait of resistance, motivate political action, and build feminist solidarity through radical empathy. The resulting photographs—exhibited at 21c Louisville in floor-to-ceiling grids—present women’s unbridled self-expression without regard to society’s expectations.

Whitney Bradshaw is an artist, activist, educator, curator, former social worker and documentary film producer whose practice seeks to empower her subjects while challenging the social systems that marginalize and oppress them.Her work has been shown widely across the United States including solo shows at Atlanta Contemporary, the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, the DePaul Art Museum, and Wave Pool Contemporary Art Fulfillment Center. The Museum of Contemporary Photography, the DePaul Art Museum, Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law, the Hall Art and Technology Foundation and Sara M. and Michelle Vance Waddell collect her work which has been published in Ms. Magazine, the New York Times, the Chicago Tribune, New City Magazine and Vogue. In the Fall of 2023 Bradshaw was named one of New City Magazine’s ’50 Chicago Artists’ Artists. Both she and OUTCRY are the subject of a short documentary film titled OUTCRY: Alchemists of Rage directed by Clare Major and produced by Frankly Speaking Films. The film premiered at the Frameline Film Festival in San Francisco in June 2024 and was shortlisted for the International Documentary Association’s Best Short Film Award of 2024.