Queer ‘Threads’ at Somarts Gallery, San Francisco

Queer Cultural Center has invited an amazing international group of talented visual/media artists for the queer arts exhibition of the 12th Annual National Queer Arts Festival in California USA. The title of the exhibition is ‘Threads’. Threads is not just about fashion and costume, but also how queerness weaves the…

Aalborg Queer Festival Goes DIV

Aalborg Queer Festival, Denmark, August 11-15 2009, is a DIY (do-it-yourself!) and non-profit event. It is a non-sexist and non-racist festival. It is about making a space for creativity and critical thoughts. A way of challenging mainstream culture and gender stereotypes. We welcome transsexuals, transgenders, homosexuals, bisexuals, androgynous people, butches,…

A Conversation in Re-Memory of Bernice Bing

A free event in California, USA: A Conversation in Re-Memory of Bernice Bing (1936-1998), Monday, March 23rd, 2009, 7-9pm, Timken Lecture Hall, CALIFORNIA COLLEGE OF THE ARTS, San Francisco campus, 1111 Eighth Street (at 16th & Wisconsin St.) Speakers: Moira Roth, Trefethen Chair of Art History, Mills College Kim Anno,…

Building Communities Through art, Action, and Resistance

The 4th Queer People of Color Conference will be hosted by University of California, Davis, USA. The conference will take place April 3rd – 4th 2009, and will focus on “Building Communities through Art, Action, and Resistance.” The organizers of the conference say: “With this theme, one of our many…

Being A Lesbian And Creating Spiritual Art

‘The soul entering the universe for the first time’, painting by Jina Wallwork Jina Wallwork is a writer, artist and medium living in England. She has studied art and has a BA(hons) degree in fine art from Staffordshire University. Jina Wallwork has just released a book ‘The complete explanation of death…

Queer Curation

Queer Conversations on Culture and the Arts brings together locally and nationally renowned American artists, writers, filmmakers, and scholars for a series of conversations to discuss a broad range of LGBTQI topics.

'Little Boxes' Visual Art Exhibition in California, USA

To recycle magazines, photos and newspaper by using them as raw materials for creative photomontages and assemblage objects are a fine way of making the most of something that little value. It is great fun to see how artists can transform old waste pictures of now value and turn them…

Cut And Paste – Hannah Höch’s Photomontages

  Slideshow with Hannah Höch’s works of art Hannah Höch (1889 – 1978) was a German Dada artist. She studied at the Kunstgewerbeschule Charlottenburg and at School of the Royal Museum of Applied Arts in Berlin. In 1919 she became a member of the Dada movement. Hannah is best known for her photomontages,…

Print Dyke Action Machine’s Posters And Plaster Your Neighborhood

Lesbian Americans, poster by DAM! 1998 A New Public Artproject by DAM! Dyke Action Machine! (DAM!) is a two-person public art project founded in 1991 by artist Carrie Moyer and photographer Sue Schaffner. Their campaign posters incorporated lesbian images into recognizably commercial contexts, revealing how lesbians are and are not…