{"id":28748,"date":"2025-08-05T13:29:32","date_gmt":"2025-08-05T11:29:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/?p=28748"},"modified":"2026-05-09T08:57:53","modified_gmt":"2026-05-09T06:57:53","slug":"being-a-queer-artist-in-the-berkshires","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/being-a-queer-artist-in-the-berkshires\/","title":{"rendered":"Being a Queer Artist in the Berkshires"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"780\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/YnyTXLj0Y8w?si=1_YH-408GONlOImj\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Video (1:19:14): Becket Arts Center Speaker Series, panel discussion in Massachusetts, USA: &#8220;Being a Queer Artist in the Berkshires,&#8221; June 12, 2025. The artists are Johanna Merfeld, Christopher Pierce, Mitchell Sellers and Rachel Kaufmann. <\/p>\n<h2>About the Queer Women Artists<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rachelkaufmann.art\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Rachel Kaufmann<\/a>, a lesbian oil painter who has been painting since college. Her current work focuses on queer scenes from the Berkshires. \u201cI am inspired by the work of Nicole Eisenman &#038; the German Expressionists.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/berkshireartcenter.org\/johanna-merfeld\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Johanna Merfeld,<\/a> As a mixed-media artist &#038; art educator living &#038; working in the Berkshires, she seeks to surround herself with fellow queer creatives. Born &#038; raised in Boston, she\u2019s been making art since she was old enough to hold a pencil. These days she\u2019s inspired by contemporary artists Mickalene Thomas &#038; Christina Quarles, as well as the work of German Expressionist Egon Schiele.<\/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<h2>Related Link<\/h2>\n<p><em>First Ever Berkshire LGBTQ+ Pride Art Exhibit<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Video (1:19:14): Becket Arts Center Speaker Series, panel discussion: &#8220;Being a Queer Artist in the Berkshires,&#8221; June 12, 2025<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":28749,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1466,23],"tags":[1721,1720],"class_list":["post-28748","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-northeastern-united-states","category-queer-art","tag-johanna-merfeld","tag-rachel-kaufmann"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28748","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=28748"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28748\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29976,"href":"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28748\/revisions\/29976"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28749"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}