Feminine Moments

Press release

UNCENSORED: Queer Art and the Church
March 27-31, 2012

Leslie-Lohman Annex
127-B Prince Street, New York, NY 10012
Submit artwork online at uncensoredexhibition.org until March 20, 2012

CALL FOR ENTRIES: uncensoredexhibition.org
[February 2012-New York, NY] In response to the church’s recent call to censor the groundbreaking exhibition Hide/Seek: Difference and Desire in American Portraiture at the Brooklyn Museum, the Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art is hosting Uncensored: Queer Art and the Church, a week-long exhibition to which anyone may submit artwork and all submitted artwork will be shown.

Uncensored: Queer Art and the Church is an activist riposte to the shameful history of censorship against LGBTQ art and artists by both the Catholic Church and Fundamentalist Protestant Churches. The Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art firmly believes that all art should be seen and displayed without regard to content; therefore submissions to Uncensored: Queer Art and the Church will NOT be curated, edited, interpreted or censored.

Artists may only submit work online at uncensoredexhibition.org. The deadline for submissions is March 20, 2012 at midnight and all artwork submitted will be exhibited. The Museum reserves the right to reject artwork which infringes on a copyright or would be illegal under state or federal law to possess or exhibit.

Call for submissions for Homotopia 2012. The festival seeks new work from artists, theatremakers, producers and promoters for consideration for the autumn festival, which will be held at various venues across Liverpool, UK, between November 1-30, 2012.

Homotopia seeks work in various art-forms such as live performances from theatremakers, musicians, dance artists, performance artists, writers, artists and comedians/cabaret/vaudeville acts. The festival organizers write that they are “committed to supporting local artists” and “keen to attach development and/or seed funding to projects, companies or artists that are looking to be produced as either a Homotopia production or co-commission with other producers and/or partners.” They also mention that some of what they present at their festival “is mainstream with a traditional appeal and some of it is innovative and experimental. Some work can focus on LGBT issues while other work can be related to LGBT themes.”

DEADLINE: FRIDAY 4th May 2012 5pm. More details at homotopia.net

Exhibition: Lesbians Seeing Lesbians – Building Community in Early Feminist Photography, October 2011 at Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art

Shares & Stakeholders – The Feminist Art Project 100th Annual College Art Association Conference at MOCA Los Angeles, USA February 25,2012 9am-5pm.

This year’s Feminist Art Project day of panels organized by artists Audrey Chan and Elana Mann gauges the present and future of feminist artistic thought and practice. What are the stakes — and who are the stakeholders — of the feminist future? Topics of discussion will include: feminist art educational models, the roles of men in feminist art, interventionist art strategies, radical queer art making, and feminism as a daily humanist practice.

About The Feminist Art Project
The Feminist Art Project brings together feminist artists, curators, authors and art critics, teachers and other art and museum professionals across cultural backgrounds, generations and widespread locations to refocus public attention on the significant achievements of women artists and the Feminist Art Movement.The Feminist Art Project is administered by the Institute for Women and Art (IWA) at Rutgers University, USA.

Cover of Doin’ It in Public; courtesy of OTIS Ben Maltz Gallery

Last chance to see the exhibition Doin’ It in Public. It is on view through Sunday, Feb 26at Ben Maltz Gallery, Otis College of Art and Design, California, USA.
Join the Closing Reception, Sunday Feb 26, 3-5pm with a ceremony led by artist Linda Vallejo. The gallery will open at 10am and stay open through the reception, until 5pm

The Book - Doin' It in Public: Feminism and Art at the Woman's Building
Doin’ It in Public: Feminism and Art at the Woman’s Building and From Site to Vision is a limited-edition, two-volume bookset (ISBN 978-0-930209-23-0) created in conjunction with the exhibition at Ben Maltz Gallery, Otis College of Art and Design, Oct 1, 2011 – Feb 26, 2012.

Cover of From Site to Vision; courtesy of OTIS Ben Maltz Gallery