San Francisco: QWOCMAP’s Free Video Workshops For Queer Women of Color

Press release by QWOCMAP – Queer Women of Color Media Arts Project QWOCMAP – 2 FREE Video Workshops [in San Francisco, USA] Spring 2012 DEADLINE 5pm Friday January 6, 2012 These workshops are offered to: African Descent/Black, Asian/South Asian, Arab, South West Asian/North African, Pacific Islander, Chicana/Latina, Native American &…

Pride Photo Award Winner Hinda Schuman

Artist statement by Hinda Schuman All images are copyright Hinda Schuman 2011 Photo from A True Story by Hinda Schuman Artist book: A True Story by Hinda Schuman Congratulations to Hinda Schuman, USA. Five images from photographer and queer woman Hinda Schuman’s autobiographical artist book A True Story were selected…

New York: Creating A Queer Museum

Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art Press Release Exhibition: Creating A Queer Museum Opening Reception Tuesday, December 13 6-8 pm Come celebrate the transformation of the Leslie/Lohman Gay Art Foundation into the Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art as the first museum in the world dedicated to exhibiting…

DGLFF Awards Best Documentar​y to DIFFICULT LOVE

Congratulations to visual activist Zanele Muholi and co-director Peter Goldsmid! Based on the audience voting slips during the festival in the category of DOCUMENTARY, the production Difficult Love has won the audience award for BEST DOCUMENTARY at DGLFF 2011 in Durban. See The Documentary Difficult Love Online In ‘Difficult Love’ Zanele talks…

Artist Book by American Photographer Hinda Schuman

  8-6-81 Dear Shirley, I feel like a used car. Fix one part and another breaks. Love, Hinda – Photo from the artist book, Dear Shirley by Hinda Schuman [Artist statement & all images are copyright Hinda Schuman 2011] Artist Statement by Hinda Schuman I came to photography after an eight…

Fundraiser for a Sociosexual Video: Community Action Center

Press Release by A.K and A.L Video still from Community Action Center We need your support for our fundraiser: Community Action Center We now have less than 3 weeks to hit our fundraising goal of $9500 by Dec 21, 2011 – we’ve come a long way but we are still…

New York: Creating A Queer Museum at Leslie-Lohman

Marion Pinto, Sleeping Church Nude, 1974, Oil on canvas, 71.75 x 79.75″ Press release Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art presents      Creating A Queer Museum December 14, 2011 – January 28, 2012 26 Wooster Street (between Canal & Grand) New York, NY 10013, USA Opening Reception  Tuesday, December…

The Queer’ists Exhibition at The Lock Gallery

The Queer’ists Exhibition at Lock Gallery The Queer’ists Exhibition runs until December 3, 2011 at The Lock Gallery Studio 23, Canal Basin Warehouse Leicester Row Coventry, UK More details about the Queer’ists Exhibition .

Cape Town TV: Isilumo siyaluma by Zanele Muholi

CTV News Bulletin of November 17, 2011. Topic: Lesbian artist Zanele Muholi uses menstruation as a medium to tell the story of black lesbians in South Africa. Visual artist and queer activist Zanele Muholi, South Africa was interviewed by Cape Town TV about her latest exhibition Isilumo siyaluma (Period Pains)….

Melbourne: Midsumma Fesitval January 15 to February 5 2012

The Programme of the Midsumma 2012 queer arts festival in Melbourne, Australia has been published this week. Midsumma is a federation of arts and cultural events spread over 70 different venues throughout Melbourne. The festival will run from Sunday January 15 to Sunday February 5, 2012. If features a big…

Jerusalem Portrait by Liliana Kleiner

Video: Jerusalem Portrait by Liliana Kleiner, 2011. The video is  produced in collaboration with Itai Frumin original music and animation Out and proud painter Liliana Kleiner explains that her latest body of works are about her inner search and a search for feminine spirit in Jerusalem. Liliana Kleiner is a…

OUTAuction In New York

For 25 years, GLAAD has worked with news, entertainment and social media to bring culture-changing stories of LGBT people into millions of homes and workplaces every day. GLAAD organises an anual auction, the OUTAuction. On November 20, 2011, 5pm the OUTAuction will be held at Metropolitan Pavilion, 125 West 18th…

Exhibition Alert: Man as Object – Reversing the Gaze

By Tania Hammidi San Francisco: Man as Object. Women Artists Look at Men and Masculinity – Art Exhibition Re-envisions Gender, Society and The Politics of Exposure. Man as Object: Reversing the Gaze slideshow by Tania Hammidi Here is some footage from Man As Object: Reversing the Gaze exhibit at SOMArts/…

London: CORPUS QUEER: BODIES OF RESISTANCE

THE RESISTANCE GALLERY is proud to present AT AUCTION a major retrospective of the work of Del LaGrace Volcano. Originally shown in November 2009 as part of the SHOUT Festival in Birmingham, England, these images – large format, on board & ready to hang – will be sold at THE…

Homotopia presents Pin Ups a Queer Art Show

Promotional video – Homotopia Festival presents the exhibtion Pin Ups Pin Ups consists of a selection of new and existing portraits from Sadie Lee and Matthew Stradling exploring the idea of queer icons and inspired by the eponymous David Bowie album. In this video curator James Lawler and the out…

Develop Your Personal Imagery

Developing Personal Imagery Workshop @ Banff Centre from barbara hammer on Vimeo. This short video from a master class by queer filmmaker Barbara Hammer (USA) at The Banff Centre, Canada, shows how Barbara guides a group of artists to develop their personal imagery through visualization using a relaxation techniques, which…

Toronto: Commitment Issues

Commitment Issues  – Curated by Jess Dobkin takes place November 16 + 17, 2011 in Toronto, Canada. The event presents an selection of works by international performance artists and in addition to the evening of performance art, the artists and curator speak about the work and the event in a…

Homotopia: Pin Ups’ Opening

A Homotopia.tv presents a video from the opening of Pin Ups – A queer art exhibition by Sadie Lee & Mathew Stradling at The Gallery, Liverpool, UK