June 14 – 16, 2013 9th annual Queer Women of Color Film Festival Queer Women of Color Media Arts Project (QWOCMAP) Brava Theater Center 2789 24th Street San Francisco, USA The 9th annual Queer Women of Color Film Festival in California premieres 55 short films in 5 screening programs. The…
Interview with Tejal Shah, 2012 from Tejal Shah on Vimeo. Indian artist Tejal Shah talks about her creative practice as an out artist and a queer activist in India, struggling with the fact that there is a lot of censorship going on in the Indian art world. She does not…
Barbara Gross Gallerie in Munich, Germany is the second solo exhibition of Indian artist Tejal Shah. Titled Between the Waves, the video and installation project premiered at dOCUMENTA art festival last year under the curatorial rubric of Collapse and Recovery of artistic director Carolyn Christov Bakargiev. Between the Waves runs…
Artist statement and photos by Caitlin Rose Sweet Gay Cave, mixed media, 15’x6’, by Caitlin R. Sweet, 2012. Photo by Ty August Chance Caitlin R. Sweet: I am a conceptual craftswoman who uses the connotations of the handmade as a platform to explore our relationship to the body, sexuality, utopian…
Artist Statement and photos by Rachael Shannon
Thinkinghands wrote on 04/27/2013: “Arles: A French School Daily through May 26 Time:10 :30 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. Location: 798 Space Address: Dashanzi Art District, 4 Jiuxianqiao Lu, Beijing, China Arles: A French School Description A selection of works by artists who graduated from Europe’s most prestigious photography school will…
A self portrait by Birthe Havmoeller, independent editor of Feminine Moments Recently one of my readers realized that I am not based in Copenhagen, but am living in a village near Aarhus, she asked: Do you live in the country? Is it peaceful there? It is a town? … and…
San Francisco, CA. May 18, 2013: Press Release from Annie Sprinkle, Beth Stephens and Femina Potens EARTHY — AN ECOSEX BOOT CAMP AIMS TO MAKE ECO-ACTIVSM MORE SEXY, FUN AND DIVERSE Beth Stephens and Annie Sprinkle aim to get an ‘E’ added to the ‘GLBTQI’ moniker. E is for ecosexual….
Polaroid Girl Teaser from April Maxey on Vimeo. Teaser: Polaroid Girl by April Maxey Film screening: May 24, 2013 Kashish Mumbai International Queer Film Festival, INDIA Read more about Polaroid Girl
Press release by Madison Young / Femina Potens Art Gallery DEAR MAMMARIES… INTERACTIVE VISUAL ART EXPLORATION AND INNOVATIVE CONVERSATION ON OUR TABOO TOPOGRAPHY SAN FRANCISCO, CA – JUNE 6-9, 2013 @ 43 DORE ST. Femina Potens Art Gallery presents a weekend long interactive visual art exploration and innovative conversation on…
Press release by Eyeswilddrag.it GendErotica 2013 contamination of queer art Fem! Rome, Italy, May 31st – June 2nd at Nuovo Cinema Palazzo and at Teatro Valle Occupato The most international, dissacrating, activist edition of GendErotica. Femme Power and Queer Femininity are the tools that women have for the appropriatation of…
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Workshop: Dorothée Smith – The invisible side of things From 8 to 13 July 2013, at the international photography festival Les Rencontres d’Arles Photographie in the south of France. The workshop is bilingual English – French. Participants will experiment with different technical and aesthetic decisions each day in order to…
Press release by PiA, Canada Vancouver, BC – May 8, 2013 The Pride in Art Society (PiA) is thrilled to announce that Canadian Heritage has restored partial funding for this year’s Queer Arts Festival (QAF). In April, PiA received word that Canadian Heritage was withdrawing its funding for QAF. This…
Portraits by Juliette Gorges Coppens Published by www.thebookedition.com (2013) This new catalog (right: the cover of the catalog) by French painter Juliette Gorges Coppens presents 32 portraits of women. Juliette’s series of paintings – oil on canvas and oil on paper – are sensual and erotic portraits of women and…
Hello all, Blue gorilla hand, ceramic sculpture by Julia Kunin I have work in the new design fair “COLLECTIVE.1” at pier 57, at Todd Merrill Gallery. Meanwhile I’m having an amazing time making work in Pecs, Hungary, on my Fulbright [grant]. All my best, Julia COLLECTIVE.1: Pier 57, at 15th…
Press release from Coral Aorta / Femina Potens Art Gallery Femina Potens would like to invite all of our past, present and future volunteers, interns, FP friends, family and allies to our May Picnic Potluck in Dolores Park. We had a great time at our last FP Potluck, and are…
Short film (27 min.) about lesbian artist Patricia Cronin, Art in Progress, Reserve Channel, 2012 Art in Progess: “Patricia Cronin is known for her beautiful equestrian themed paintings. However, she also has a niche for creating artistically sexual paintings and sculptures. Using herself and her partner as the subject, Patricia…
Video published by Halston Heritage, 2013 HALSTON sits down with the artist Deborah Kass to talk about her work, pop art’s place in pop culture and her retrospective October 26, 2012 – January 6, 2013 at The Andy Warhol Museum. Related Links Deborah Kass at Paul Kasmin Gallery
Gender Studies and Body Politics Session 2 | published by The New School, Nyc. USA, 2010 Ann Cvetkovich, Professor of English and Professor of Womens and Gender Studies, University of Texas at Austin. Prof. Cvetkovich discusses the problems of continuity/discontinuity across feminist generations. What turns have we taken, and how…