{"id":23891,"date":"2022-08-24T09:12:15","date_gmt":"2022-08-24T07:12:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/?p=23891"},"modified":"2022-08-24T09:21:46","modified_gmt":"2022-08-24T07:21:46","slug":"herequeer-improving-queer-visibility-in-the-new-art-gallery-walsall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/herequeer-improving-queer-visibility-in-the-new-art-gallery-walsall\/","title":{"rendered":"Here&#038;Queer = improving Queer Visibility in the New Art Gallery Walsall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"700\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1qwe1gSXUXM\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Video (38:07): Zoom video conversation and presentation of the exhibition &#8216;<a href=\"https:\/\/thenewartgallerywalsall.org.uk\/exhibition\/herequeer\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Here&#038;Queer<\/a>&#8216; at The New Art Gallery, Walsall, UK. Corinne (they, them) is the representative of the the LGBTQ+ Community Panel.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Historically public art collections have been presented in a certain way. White-washed by a straight, ableist, middle-class, male gaze. (&#8230;) In order to address this issue, and better reflect the people of Walsall today, over the next three years a commitment has been made to ensure more diverse narratives are embedded into the Collections displays.&#8217; <\/p>\n<p>&#8216;The New Art Gallery has been working with LGBTQ+Community Panel to improve Queer visibility in its Collections displays. Collections Curator, Julie Brown, and members of the LGBTQ+ Community Panel discuss the first iteration of this Embedding Diversity in our Collections project. <em>Here&#038;Queer<\/em> is part of a focused, long-term, effort to diversify The New Art Gallery Walsall\u2019s Collections displays. Inspired by the queer co-founder of the Gallery\u2019s prestigious Garman Ryan Collection, Sally Ryan, we have worked with an LGBTQ+ Community Panel to transform the visibility of queer stories.&#8217;<\/p>\n<h2>Here&#038;Queer Events Programme:<\/h2>\n<p>Saturday 27 August, Here&#038;Queer Events Programme in celebration of Walsall Pride<\/p>\n<p>11am-3pm \u2013 Follow the Rainbow Heart Road family workshop, creating a celebratory trail through the Gallery in honour of the Here&#038;Queer exhibition and Walsall Pride with artist Yasmin Agilah-Hood.<\/p>\n<p>11am-2pm \u2013 Alex Billingham, artist and LGBTQ+ community panel member, will perform a response to their chosen work Three Women Bathing in Here&#038;Queer, on our Roof Terrace. <\/p>\n<p>2pm \u2013 In-conversation event with artist Michael Petry, in our Floor 4 Conference Room, who will reflect on the response to his 2004 Hidden Histories exhibition in Walsall and the Here&#038;Queer project with LGBTQ+ panel members.  How far have we come in the last 20 years?  <\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.eventbrite.com\/e\/michael-petry-in-conversation-at-the-new-art-gallery-walsall-tickets-399472863087  <\/p>\n<p>3pm \u2013 Art in an Emergency panel discussion around artists\u2019 responses to significant social and political events, chaired by LGBTQ+ panel member Hope Talbot.  This event will take place in our Community Gallery, to also mark the closing weekend of the Twenty Twenty Collection exhibition. <\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.eventbrite.com\/e\/art-in-an-emergency-panel-discussion-tickets-400974053187<\/p>\n<p>See the full event <a href=\"https:\/\/thenewartgallerywalsall.org.uk\/exhibition\/herequeer\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">programme<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>[The copyright of the video above remains with the original holder and it is used here for the purpose of education, comparison and criticism only.]<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Video (38:07): Zoom video conversation and presentation of the exhibition &#8216;Here&#038;Queer&#8217; at The New Art Gallery, Walsall, UK.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23892,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,1462,23],"tags":[1485],"class_list":["post-23891","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-art-project","category-great-britain","category-queer-art","tag-sally-ryan"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23891","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23891"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23891\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23892"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}