Shelley Stefan – B is for Butch from Roger Kisby on Vimeo. Azucarera Gallery, New York, presented the exhibition B is for Butch by queer painter Shelley Stefan in 2010. About Shelley Stefan American artist Shelley Stefan received her BFA in Painting and Drawing in 1996 from The University of…
Press Release We Love We Make We Exist is a Photo Documentary delivered by Marta Kochanek thanks to kind support of Arts Council England and Birmingham Shout Festival. The new body of work consists of 13 panoramic photographs for which Marta portrayed members of LGBT Families including their children. We Love…
A successfully funded queer Kickstarter project by Dinah DiNova, 2012. Tin, Sin & Kinship – a collection of modern day Wet Plate Collodion Tintypes celebrating queer & radical subcultures in the United States was successfully funded in December 2012. Visual artist Dinah DiNova writes about her project: “This photographic exploration has…
A documentary film project by Jen Banta and Lenore Chinn at the crowdfunding site Indiegogo Description of the Film Project “We need to raise $5,000, to complete a documentary about visionary painter and community activist, Bernice Bing (1936-1998), titled, The Worlds of Bernice Bing. Cal Humanities Community Story Grant and…
Video published by TEDxWomen 2012 TEDxWomen’s description of the film: “Artist iO Tillett Wright has photographed 2,000 people who consider themselves somewhere on the LBGTQ spectrum and asked many of them: Can you assign a percentage to how gay or straight you are? Most people, it turns out, consider themselves…
Review of Gender Talents: A Special Address, The Tanks, Tate Modern for Feminine Moments – Text: Anna McNay / art-Corpus Panellists at The Tanks, Tate Modern. Photo by Anna McNay Gender Talents: A Special Address As part of Tate Modern’s Charming for the Revolution Congress for Gender Talents and Wildness weekend, Saturday…
Panel Discussion at Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art Saturday, February 16, 4 pm Artists Nina Levitt, Ken Moffatt, and Jonathan Ned Katz in conversation with curators Steph Rogerson, Kelly McCray and Jonathan David Katz Hosted by the Queer Caucus of Art at Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian…
Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art has launched a videostream at Vimeo and I would like to recommend their videos documenting a panel debate held alongside the museum’s inaugural show in 2011: Lesbians Seeing Lesbians – Artist & Curator Panel Discussion (part 1) and part 2 of the panel debate….
Invitation to a queer art Valentine’s Day exhibition in Stockholm, Sweden
2010 – Queer performance artist Peggy Shaw tells Creative Choices why she doesn’t go to the theatre any more.
Slideshow with paintings by Romaine Brooks Romaine Brooks Lesbian Art Herstory: American Painter Romaine Brooks (1874 – 1970) worked in Paris and on Capri in the 1920s. She best known for her images of women in androgynous or masculine dress having, and has among others painted a painting of a…
Sample newsletter Dear Reader, One of the best ways I know to get unstuck, when one’s creative ideas aren’t flowing as they should, is to change media. And some years ago I felt the need to do something new with my photography. I bought a digital camera … and another…
The films by Pauline Boudry / Renate Lorenz at Tate Modern reflects on the interplay of sexuality, sexual perversions and representation, continuously returning to unrepresented or illegible moments in history. The screenings are a part of Charming for the Revolution: A Congress for Gender Talents and Wildness February 1 – 3, 2013.
Press release by The GLBT Historical Society & The GLBT History Museum, USA The “Migrating Archives” exhibition will feature materials from nine countries, including Belgium (left), South Africa (upper right) and Italy (lower right). Exhibition Opening: February 1, 6 – 8 p.m. Migrating Archives: LGBT Delegates From Collections Around the World at The GLBT History…
Lesbian Lives Conference 2013 15th Feb 2013 – 16th Feb 2013 Sallis Benney Theatre, Brighton, UK 20th Annual Lesbian Lives Conference, ‘The Modern Lesbian’ Held on 15-16 February 2013 and hosted by University of Brighton LGBT and Queer Life Research Hub in conjunction with Women’s Studies Centre, University College Dublin….
Flagrante Delicto by Gaye Chan, 2002 – 2006 Gaye Chan is a conceptual artist. She was born in Hong Kong and is based in Hawaii, where she is currently a professor and the Chair of the Department of Art and Art History at the University of Hawaii. Learn more about…
Press release FIRST ITALIAN FEMME CONFERENCE Rome, June 2013 GENDEROTICA 2013: Contaminations of Queer Art International Festival Hosted by Eyes Wild Drag Call for Abstracts Femme is a term used by many in the queer community who identify as “feminine.” Defining unequivocally who is femme (or fem in Italian usage)…
Press release by Eye Wild Drag QUEER INFECTION GENDEROTICA 2013 queer art contaminations International Festival by Eyes Wild Drag Rome – June 2013 Queer Infection, section born during the second edition of the Festival, is an exhibit and performative laboratory open to Italian and foreign artists, working on Gender and…
The international conference Black Portraiture[s]: The Black Body in the West /Représentation du Corps Noir en Occident is being held in Paris, France January 17 – 20, 2013. Black Portraiture[s] explores the ideas of the production and skill of self-representation, desire, and the exchange of the gaze from the 19th…
Photographies and artist statement by Leah DeVun