Interview with Allyson Mitchell, Canada

Queer artist Allyson Mitchell interviewed by Irma Villafuerte, part I, May 12, 2009. Allyson Mitchell, is a maximalist artist working predominantly in sculpture, installation and film. Mitchell has been melding feminism and pop culture to play with contemporary ideas about sexuality, autobiography, and the body, largely through the use of reclaimed textile and abandoned craf.

OPEN EYES: QUEER FILM NIGHT – The QueerXShow

Femina Potens is excited to presents OPEN EYES film screening at Femina Potens Gallery with some of the hottest, most evocotive and forward thinking movies the Bay Area has to offer.

On March 26 at 8pm Femina Potens invites you to a sneak preview screening of the QueerXShow: Too Much Pussy, Feminist Sluts.
“TOO MUCH PUSSY ! Feminist Sluts in The QueerXShow’ is sex-positive road-movie by Emilie Jouvet.

Gender Has Had Its 15 Minutes Of Fame

In the 1990’ies everybody did gender, but now gender as an art themes has had its 15 minutes of fame, and we are back to square one: art made by queer women artists is ignored by the art world. It is a big backslash that the art world isn’t open and curious any more.

Guerilla Girls Fight For Equality In The Art World

Arts activists, the Guerrilla Girls are a group of anonymous women or “feminist masked avengers” fighting for gender and racial equality. They tell the American art world how male-centric it is and question why art by male artists is better than art made by women, black and hispanic people. In the video above you can see them in action giving a talk at the Brooklyn Museum.