Aorta Magazine Is Recruiting New Collective Members

Aorta Magazine is hosting an information session on September 23rd 2010 at 7pm at Million Fishes Art Gallery: 2501 Bryant St, San Francisco, USA. They invite you to come meet them, learn about the project, indulge in some treats, and figure out how to get involved!

Regard Solitaire by Ana Dumitrescu

Regard Solidaire – an exhibition by Ana Dumitrescu, August 30 – September 7 2010
At Hall de la Mairie, Paris 19ème, France, Opening of Regard Solidaire: August 30, 2010, 18:00

Martina Minette Dreier – Female World

Martina Minette Dreier has studied painting and illustration at Fachhochschule Bielefeld in 1988 – 1993. She is currently living and working in Berlin, Germany.

A Conversation With Judy Chicago And Suzanne Lacy

Feminist artist Suzanne Lacy talks about how her art teacher and founder of the Los Angeles Womans Building Judy Chicago transformed her life in the begining of the 1970’ies. Their conversation is about mentorship, teaching and about women and art. The video was recorded on March 5 2007.

QUEER COUTURE

Femina Potens, a queer non-profit art gallery & performance space in San Francisco, presents the group show ‘QUEER COUTURE’ August 2010.

Talk By Elizabeth Stephens & Annie Sprinkle

From the documentational videos of the “Intervene! Interrupt!: Rethinking Art as Social Practice” conference and festival at University of California Santa Cruz – May 15-17, 2008, (published may 2010 at YouTube) I have selected the videos of about by Elizabeth Stephens & Annie Sprinkle.

Men Looking at Feminist Art

Today I have found a couple of videos about an art show titled ‘The Female Gaze: Women Look At Women’ at Cheim & Read, New York 2009.

Catherine Opie: American Photographer

Video: Catherine Opie: American Photographer by Guggenheim. September 26, 2008 – January 7, 2009 you could see a big retrospective exhibition by queer American photographer Catherine Opie at Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York. In this video from the exhibition she is speaking of her “Surfers” and “Icehouses” series.

Photographer Sherley Camille Olopherne

‘I think my photographic vision is coming into focus just as I’m coming into myself and submitting all of my being to all possibilities wherever they may come. Artistically at a crossroad and committing myself to producing images that present the perverse, the destructive, the sexual, the eroticized and ultimately the beauty of life and women bodies.

Sif Itona Westerberg Makes Queer Animations

Sif Itona Westerberg (1985) is a Copenhagen based artist studying at the Funen Art Academy, Denmark. She Works mainly with sculptures, story telling, claymation, stop motion and animation.

Canada: Queertopia – The Best Place On Earth

The Pride in Art Society presents the 2010 Queer Arts Festival QUEERTOPIA which runs July 27 until August 14, 2010 at The Roundhouse Community Arts & Recreation Centre in downtown Vancouver, Canada

Chronotopia At SOMArts (2010)

Here is a video about the annual exhibition of the National Queer Arts Festival in California June 2010:
Justin Hoover takes us on a walk through ‘Chronotopia’ a queer group exhibition at SOMArts.

Birthe Havmoeller: The Story About Feminine Moments

I think that it is time for a bit of storytelling. I created Feminine Moments in 2003, because I felt that the world – especially the lesbian and queer communities – needed a coherent body of resources about contemporary art made by lesbians and queer female artists.