Sopa de Letras

'Sopa de Letras' brings together five queer Latino artists at the Fonseca-Dubois Gallery inside the Indianapolis Liberation Center in Fountain Square. Featuring photography, printmaking, painting and mixed media, the show opens with a reception from 6 to 9 p.m. on Wednesday, June 17 and runs through July 12. The title translates to alphabet letter soup, a play on jokes about the LGBTQ+ acronym. The exhibit features Johnny Willems, Andie Arana Gomez, Elena Guadiana Segovia, Avery Miller and Sheila Nayeli Clemente-Zoto, and asks what it looks like to be a Latino queer person in the Midwest and how cultural influences appear in the artists' work. Willems, a printmaker who is Mexican, Chilean and Indonesian, draws on his lifelong passion for wrestling and lucha libre, creating risograph prints that find intimacy and queerness in the sport. Gomez, who is Guatemalan and curated the show in partnership with Arte Mexicano en Indiana, notes that many Latino artists in the Midwest lack the dense immigrant-culture pockets found on the coasts. Gallery hours are noon to 8 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday and noon to 6 p.m. Sunday.