Clarity Haynes – The Breast Portrait Project

Sorry the pomotional fundraising video for the Breast Portrait Project by Artist Clarity Haynes published by Martha Shane on Vimeo (2011) has been deleted by the owner. This project was successfully funded a year ago. Making Herstory Sorry, this video has also been deleted. Video description: Clarity Haynes discusses her…

UCSC Professor Elizabeth Stephens

UCSC Professor Elizabeth Stephens – videointerview published by DobroFilms, May 2012. UCSC Art Professor and former Chair of the Art Department, UC David PhD Candidate, wife to Annie Sprinkle, performance artist, sculptor, Elizabeth Stephens talked with Nada Miljkovic for KZSC’s Artist on Art about her work as an eco-activist and…

Catherine Opie: Cleveland Clinic

Catherine Opie: Cleveland Clinic, published by Art21.org To engage with a real work of art can be magical and healing. American visusal artist and queer art pioneer Catherine Opie believes that art needs to be public. In this video she talks about a permanent installation, which she has made for…

All That is Banned is Desired

World Conference on Artistic Freedom of Expression to Oslo. ‘All That is Banned is Desired’.  A World Conference on Artistic Freedom of Expression The Fritt Ord Foundation, Oslo, and Freemuse – The World Forum on Music & Censorship, Copenhagen, will organize the first world conference on artistic freedom of expression…

StressHat – a hat never goes out of fashion!

Press Release by NLHspace, Copenhagen Stress-hat by Henriette Hellstern-Kjoeller StressHat – a hat never goes out of fashion! by Henriette Hellstern-Kjoeller October 6 – 30 2012 (can be experienced from the street all day/night) at NLHspace Vesterfaelledvej 63 1750 Copenhagen V Opening: Friday, October 5th 5:20 pm. The artist Henriette…

Caroline Smith: Locating Your Inner Bird FREE

Hi there, I’m very excited to announce my Locating Your Inner Bird FREE open workshops to kickstart my residency for the RSPB on Wallasea Island. This project is the first of two dazzlingly new art initiatives as I leave the University of Greenwich after ten years!! Hope to see you…

Zanele Muholi in Europe

Press release South African photographer and visual activist “Zanele Muholi’s Documenta works will show at the Goethe-Institut, Johannesburg, in November/December. Muholi exhibits at the Rencontres d’Arles festival in France, where she was nominated for the Discovery Award, from 2 July to 23 September. Muholi is included on the 12th Gjon…

Women, Art and Society, 5th Edition

Press Release by Lenore Chinn “Women, Art and Society, 5th Edition” by Whitney Chadwick to be published September 10, 2012 I am happy to announce that I am included in Women, Art and Society, 5th Edition by Whitney Chadwick to be published September 10, 2012. Book Description Publication Date: September…

Brooklyn Museum Artist Talk: Ulrike Müller

Gallery Talk and Off-Site Excursion: Ulrike Müller’s Herstory Inventory Saturday, September 8, 3:30 p.m. Brooklyn Museum, 200 Eastern Parkway Brooklyn NY 11238-6052, USA To mark the closing of Ulrike Müller’s Raw/Cooked exhibition, the artist will lead a discussion on the topic of queer archives with scholar Ann Cvetkovich. Afterwards, visitors…

Femina Potens receives a Creating Public Value Grant

Press release Femina Potens receives a Creating Public Value Grant from the Arts Council. Funding supports arts organizations in rural and underserved communities. The California Arts Council announces that Femina Potens will receive a 2011-12 Creating Public Value grant of $8,500. Femina Potens, located in San Francisco, was one of…

Transformers by Sadie Lee

Transformers: portraits by Sadie Lee

Press Release You are invited to a private view on Thursday 30 August 6-8pm at Ketchum Pleon, 35-41 Folgate Street, London E1 6BX Transformers: portraits by Sadie Lee art@ketchum pleon proudly presents ‘Transformers’, a series of powerful portraits by award-winning artist Sadie Lee [UK]. The exhibition features work from two…

Poland: Lesbian Art Festival

Text by Barbara Gibson, translation Marta Kochanek   O’Less Festival October 5-7 2012 Curator Barbara Gibson: An Art Festival that would only concentrate on Lesbian Art is something I have never heard about before. It is also something that had never happened in Poland anyway. Taking into account both facts…