Ksenia M. Soboleva’s book project, What Happens After, Art, AIDS and Lesbian Histories is the first art-historical study to focus on art and lesbian identity during the initial two decades of the AIDS crisis in the United States.
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Video (1:15:04): Artist Chloe Chiasson joins Rail Editorial Assistant Madison Ford for a conversation.
Video (1:49): Short artist talk by queer feminist artist Chloe Chiasson in her studio.
Video (47:40): Gallery conversation between queer feminist painter Chloe Chiasson, curator Stamatina Gregory, Leslie Lohman Museum of Art, and art historian and critic Ksenia M. Soboleva on the occasion of Chiasson’s first solo exhibition in New York.
Video (1:05:48): In this podcast (voice only) ceramist Kathy King discusses her queer and feminist themed ceramics.
Video (1:13:55): Artist talk by Sheila Pepe, the Studio Art Department artist-in-residence at Dartmouth.
Video (6:54): This video features graphic novelist and Professor in the Practice Alison Bechdel teaching how to write.
Video (1:32:00): Dr. Ksenia M. Soboleva in conversation wirh Marlene McCarty from Gran Fury.
Video (4:50): violet Oakley’s remembrances of her “Unity” mural in the Senate Chamber in her own voice, from the collections of the Pennsylvania State Archives.
Video (7:21): A presentation of Violet Oakley’s series of mural Great Women of the Bible by Woodmere Art Museum. Violet Oakley developed the murals in colaboration with her partner Edith Emerson.
Video (13:16): Pamela Sneed responds to Zoe Leonard’s “I want a president” (1992). Introduction by Sharon Hayes.
Video (1:02:30): Mexican and German (lesbian) painter Frieda Toranzo Jaeger in conversation with Joshua Chambers-Letson (2021).
Patricia Cronin: Army of Love
5 September – 18 October 2025
at Chart Gallery, New York
Video (31:09): Interview with queer feminist artist Mickalene Thomas.
Video (11:05): Mickalene Thomas offers an intimate look at her life and practice with four silkscreen editions, each marking significant moments in her career.
Video (1:23:53): Chitra Ganesh’s guest lecture at Yale Norfolk School of Art, opening the 2025 Yale Norfolk Season.
Video (3:27): An exhibition tour of ‘DASH’ by Swedish born artist Cajsa von Zeipel. Cajsa’s practice is grounded in queerness, embodiment, and the structural systems, both personal and institutional,
Lesbian artist and photographer Berenice Abbott taught photography at The New School in New York from 1934-1958 where she founded the university’s first photography program.
Video (1:12:30): In celebration of World Pride in Washington D.C., we join visual activist Zanele Muholi and author Mecca Jamilah Sullivan for a conversation about Zanele’s activism and creative practice.
Video (19:10): Solo Creatives of The Berkshires, Episode 119: Rachel Kaufmann, a queer painter..