Arts in the Woods is a summer arts camp for homeless LGBTQ young adults. The program empowers young queer artists to build an inter-generational community of visual artists, musicians, dancers, writers and performers. Sunday July 13 to Friday July 18, 2014, young people ages 18-24, who have survived NYC and…
FLUID Exhibition June 5th-July 2nd, 2014 Project Gallery, Toronto Tuesday-Friday 2pm-8pm, Saturday-Sunday noon-6pm FLUID showcases the work of bi* identified photographers in celebration of WorldPride 2014. The Artists Allicette Torres, Amanda Robertson-Herbert, Angela Yukiko Shintani, Catherine Jones, Jaene Castrillon, Jenni, Jim Riley, Joyce, Kati Holland, Kristy Boyce, Melissa Wilkinson, Michael…
Press photo by GIBSON KOCHANEK STUDIO Gibson Kochanek Studio is an exciting new collaboration between photographer Marta Kochanek and photo researcher Barbara Gibson. Marta and Barbara have worked together on projects in the past gaining reputations as skilled, trustworthy and hard working professionals. As they developed a great working relationships…
Press release via facebook Queer, Feminist and Gender poitical art initiatives in the Nordic & baltic Countries: seminar & debate Date: 20-06-2014 Time: 17:00 – 19:00 Location: Warehouse9 – live art venue Address: Halmtorvet 11C Copenhagen, Denmark 1711 Denmark Organized by: Warehouse 9. This event is a part of the…
BECOMING AN IMAGE Heather Cassils from Pacitti Company on Vimeo. Featuring Manuel Vason performing as photographer. National Theatre Studios, London. About Heather Cassils Heather Casssils is a queer visual artist and personal trainer, originally from Montreal, Canada and now based in California. She thinks of her physical body as a…
Video published by Gender Forum. On May 21, 2014 Jack Halberstam delivered a public lecture at Karaköy Minerva Palas, Istanbul. The event was organized by Sabanci University Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Gender Studies Club (Cins Kulüp), and Gender and Women Studies Forum. The title of Jack Halberstam’s lecture…
Rainbow Party meets the artist _2012 from Susa Cortez on Vimeo. Susana Cortez Performance piece: The body is social; the body is political by itself. Who we are, where we come from, how we see ourselves, how society and others perceive us is all about body politics. It is all…
June 14, 2014 Bodies Curators’ Tour 11am at SOMArts, San Francisco Each year as part of its National Queer Arts Festival, the Queer Cultural Center presents an international exhibition of cutting edge queer art. This year’s exhibition is titled Body, body, bodies. Curators and exhibiting artists will give a guided…
GenderBlender, June 6 – Augustus 17, 2014 at MU Emmasingel 20 5611 AZ Eindhoven, Holland “Femininity, masculinity, and everything in between. With GenderBlender MU and guest curators/artists Hanneke Wetzer and Leonie Baauw are focusing on the sliding scale between 100% XX and 100 % XY chromosomes, between male and female.”…
Press release by Queer Arts Festival, Vancouver, Canada Pride in Art is delighted to announce that Artistic Director SD (Shaira) Holman has been honoured with the YWCA Women of Distinction Award. Recognized nationally as one of Canada’s most prestigious awards, the Women of Distinction Awards honours women whose outstanding achievements…
Becoming An Image Performance Still No. 1, (ONE National Archives, Transactivations, Los Angeles), 2012, C-print face mounted to Plexiglas, 45 x 30 in. Photo: Heather Cassils with Eric Charles. Courtesy of the artist and Ronald Feldman Fine Arts. Leslie-Lohman Museum presents an exhibition of queer feminist artists exploring the body…
Laura Aguilar, Grounded #114, 2006. 20 x 16 in. Courtesy of the artist and UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center. Leslie-Lohman Museum presents an exhibition of queer feminist artists exploring the body as site of resistance, envisioning a positive queer future. The exhibition features work from Laura Aguilar, Cathy Cade, Heather…
Press Release by Leslie + Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art and Fresh Fruit Festival Leslie-Lohman Museum presents an exhibition of queer feminist artists exploring the body as site of resistance, envisioning a positive queer future. After Our Bodies Meet: From Resistance to Potentiality Curated by Alexis Heller Exhibition…
Press release by Queer Arts Festival, Vancouver, BC (9 May, 2014). Portrait of SD Holman Pride in Art is delighted to announce that Artistic Director SD (Shaira) Holman has been nominated for a YWCA Women of Distinction Award. Recognized nationally as one of Canada’s most prestigious awards, the Women of…
A cross-posted INDIEGOGO campaign by Amie LeeKing Mikki by Amie LeeKing, USA Portraits & Wild Pain My INDIEGOGO campaign is to raise funds for my first solo show at NYC’s ION Studio in late June. My background Hi, friends, I’m Amie LeeKing and since the 90’s I always had a…
Body, body, bodies June 7, 2014 Opening Reception 2pm-5pm Exhibition June 7–28 SOMArts Cultural Center, San Francisco, USA Gallery Hours: Tuesday–Friday, 12–7pm, Saturday, 12–5pm Artist/Curator Walk Through – Exhibit walk: June 9, 5:30pm Body, body, bodies The National Queer Arts Festival organised by the Queer Cultural Center presents Body, body,…
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Excerpt of press release by Photographic Gallery Hippolyte Laura Lilja PHILOSOPHIAE ABSURDUS PRINCIPIA OECONOMICA Vol. II 2.-25.5.2014 Photographic Gallery Hippolyte Yrjönkatu 8–10 (courtyard), 00120 Helsinki, Finland Open: Tue–Fri 12–17, Sat–Sun 12–16 Opening at the end of the first exhibition day, Friday 2 May 2014, 5–7 p.m. Welcome! Currently mankind annually…
PASSAGE & PLACE: a multimedia visual arts exhibition OPENING: Sunday, June 1st Alley Cat Books Gallery Passage & Place is a multimedia visual arts exhibition, book project, and skillshare series that explores displacement & movement, freedom & incarceration, and home & im/migration at the intersection of queerness. How do our…
Part 6 of the conference, The Feminist Breast: Women, Nudity and Portraiture The Feminist Breast: Women, Nudity and Portraiture, 2011 Speaker: Artist Clarity Haynes College Art Association Conference Panel/Special Event, February 12, 2011. Tabla Rasa Gallery, Brooklyn, NY Panelists: Brandon Brame Fortune, Curator, National Portrait Gallery; Diane Radycki, Director, Payne…