This Pride season, Queerlective is proud to launch a new traveling community art project that invites folks across New Hampshire to create, collaborate, and express themselves one mask at a time.

Our Community Mask Project is a celebration of shared storytelling, identity, and queer expression. We’re bringing giant mask sculptures to several of the Pride festivals we’ll be attending this summer and we’re asking you to help bring them to life.

These masks were designed and hand-built by local artist Naomi Torres-Ortiz, also known as jellyfishxtheuniverse, whose work centers surreal forms, softness, and storytelling. Their incredible mask forms serve as blank canvases for community members to decorate, paint, and transform into reflections of our many identities, emotions, and histories.

Alongside these collaborative masks, we’ve invited a group of local artists to create their own artist-designed masks, using the same large-scale templates but interpreting them in their own style. These masks will live alongside the community-made pieces as part of a broader conversation about individual and collective expression.

All of the masks created through this project along with other works from Queerlective’s 2025 community art initiatives will be featured in a community exhibition later this year. This culminating event will showcase the creativity, vulnerability, and connection that happens when art is created with and for the people.

We can’t wait to build this with you.
Come find us at Pride, pick up a paintbrush, and help us wear our stories proudly.