Feminine Moments

Aorta Magazin, a radical queer arts magazin curating the queer, feminist art movement in print and in community spaces. They infiltrate and challenge the mainstream art world with accessible media that actively creates spaces for underrepresented, radical and alternative arts communities. The Aorta arts collective is based in San Francisco. Their bi-anual magazine is circulated in Germany, New Zealand, England, Mexico and USA.

California LGBT Arts Alliance is an Alliance of California Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Artists and Arts Organizations. The mission of The California LGBT Arts Alliance is to promote artistic and financial partnerships that strengthen and deepen the cooperative relationship among Californians LGBT non-profit arts organizations and individual artists. They organize statewide touring exhibitions and performances that will strengthen the members’ artistic programs.

Crash Proof - online gallery curated by Carrie Moyer, USA. The works are exhibited as part of Barnard’s The Scholar and Feminist Online (S&F Online), a feminist webjournal that contains a changing online gallery.

Creative-women.com A site dedicated to showcasing lesbian creative women, both amateur and professional authors, artists, musicians, songwriters and craftswomen.

Dyke Action Machine – DAM – a two women art project founded in 1991, which makes public art campaigns which spoof mainstream advertising by inserting lesbian images into a recognizably commercial context. Read more on Sue Schaffner and Carrie Moyers many DAM projects: Site 1 Site 2

Dyke Modern – lesbian artists in Brighton and Hove, UK. They run various activites by and for lesbians such as monthly workshops in art forms – including sculpture, drawing, textiles, collage and more – as well as in different aspects of self/community development. Their aim is to be welcoming and to learn all sorts of art techniques, inspire each other, play, explore ideas, build confidence, grow healthier, and especially enjoy being together.

Exposure - Queer Arts and Cultural Festival in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada is an emerging queer festival showcasing a diversity of disciplines, media and approaches to art. Visit the festival in November to see performances,  installations and exhibitions by lesbian and gay artists.

FANTASMAGORIA LESBIAN ART EXHIBITION “Lesbians don’t really have much sex.” US Center for Disease Control. A Canadian web exhibition by Maureen Bradley, Celine Godberson, Anne Golden, A. Vanilla Stitch, Sandi Somers and Carla Woolf.

Fe/male – the project fe/male (Vienna 2001) presents photographs of 11 female photographers from the U.S. and Europe exploring the borderline between masculinity and womanhood. The project fe/male gets out of specialised art-spaces into the public space by presenting the photographs as huge posters in underground-stations.

Femina Potens is a San Francisco grassroots non-profit art gallery & performance space dedicated to promoting and educating queers, women and transfolk in the arts. Femina Potens is an all ages non-discriminatory utility for promoting and exploring art represented by women and transgendered artists in San Francisco, USA. They curate exhibits and events including literary series, experimental performances, art openings, live music shows, film screenings, theater productions, open mics, classes and workshops.

Lavendoor.com a web gallery and e-shop promoting lesbian art and literature.

Lesbian Connexion/s – A large-scale traveling photo exhibition in Europe exploring the common theme of lesbian life, lesbian lifestyles and lesbian visibility. With sixty three photographers from fourteen European countries.

Looking for love in all the wrong places - a postering project/networking project for queer artists to collaborate, takeover and discuss safe spaces for queers in Alberta, Canada and beyond.

LTTR is a feminist genderqueer artist collective with a flexible project oriented practice based in USA. LTTR produces an annual independent art journal, performance series, events, screenings and collaborations. The group was founded in 2001 by Ginger Brooks Takahashi, K8 Hardy and Emily Roysdon. And Ulrike Müller joined LTTR in 2005. In late 2007, all five issues of the journal were out of print, and we decided to build a web archive to keep the radical content of LTTR available.

LP Edge - FP Edge is an artists’ network run by Femina Potens Art Gallery. The artists are a diverse group of talented individuals working to build their names in the art world and dedicated to increasing queer and erotic art exposure in the San Francisco Bay Area, California, USA.

Lesbian Kama Sutra has a section called ‘Sapphosophy – ART’ with art links and presentation of artists in residence.

Millet Farm, an art colony for women in Poughkeepsie, New York, USA. Literay feminist Kate Millet invites women writers, visual artist of all kinds and musicians all around the world to join her for 4-6 weeks in the spring, summer or automn at the Millett Farm. Participating artists work together and share expenses.

Queer Women of Color Media Arts Project. The QWOCMAP promotes the creation, exhibition and distribution of new films and videos that address the vital social justice issues concerning women of color and their communities, authentically reflect their life stories, and build community through art and activism. They invest in, develop and nurture the creativity of emerging media artists who are Asian/Pacific Islander, African American, Latina, Native American and Mixed-Race lesbians, bisexual, queer and questioning women in the Bay Area, California, USA.

Rainbowartsproject started in 2009 as a mixed queer artist group. Rainbowartsproject (RAP) aims to document, develop and promote queer culture primarily in the visual sector, starting small in Singapore and within the region. RAP is constantly looking into issues relevant to minority groups in particular sexual minorities- Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) and social rejects when it comes to being queer and different.

Toxic Lesbian is a group of lesbian activists and artists. The group was founded in Madrid, Spain, in 2005. They work in the sphere between contemporary visual art and more political/gendered/lesbian happenings and publish their videos on Youtube.com.

Women Artists of the American West, an online archive. See their list of lesbian photographers

Wow Café Theatre in New York, USA, has been a majority lesbian woman’s space since 1980. WOW welcomes the full participation of all women and transpeople in solidarity with women. WOW especially welcomes women and transpeople of color, and women and trans people who identify as lesbians, bisexual and queer. They provide a working theater space to our members & the technical support to create and produce works, regardless of economic status.