Looking For Love In All The Wrong Places

You may think that I am referring to my personal life, but I am not. “Looking for love in all the wrong places” is a postering project/networking project for queer artists to collaborate, takeover and discuss safe spaces for queers in Alberta, Canada and beyond. If you are in Alberta watch…

‘OUTside The Box: A Queer People Of Color Visual Artist Exhibit’

New England’s second annual QWOC WEEK, August 2nd-9th, a multicultural pride festival produced by Queer Women of Color and Friends (QWOC+ Boston), will feature local LGBT Visual Artists of color as part of week-long art exhibition, entitled “OUTside the Box: a Queer People of Color Visual Artist Exhibit.” Opening reception…

‘Meeting of Two Queens’ By Cecilia Barriga

   Film still from Cecilia Barriga’s video work ‘Meeting of Two Queens’, 1991. In the experimental video ‘Meeting of Two Queens: Encuentro entre dos Reinas’, Spain, 1991, Cecilia Barriga, a Chilean video artist, recasts the beautiful old Hollywood filmstars Greta Garbo and Marlene Dietrich in silent film style to tell…

Galleri Signe Vad, Copenhagen: I SKABET (In The Closet)

July 24 – August 13 2009 you can see Danish photographer Charlotte Haslund-Christensen‘s exhibition ‘I SKABET’ (In the closet) at Galleri Signe Vad, Nansensgade 47, Copenhagen, Denmark. Charlotte has made mugshots of homosexual Danes. You may know some of her models, because they are all out and proud gay people,…

‘The Lesbian Art Show’ in Oregon, USA

Lesbian art was on display in Fontanelle Art Gallery downtown Portland, Oregon, USA, during the Portland pride in June 2009. The exhibition ‘Lesbian Art show’, which can be seen on the Fontanelle Gallery’s website now, is made by the artists Mary McAlister, Azsa West and Aubree Bernier-Clarke. Mary explained recently…

Queer ‘Threads’ at Somarts Gallery, San Francisco

Queer Cultural Center has invited an amazing international group of talented visual/media artists for the queer arts exhibition of the 12th Annual National Queer Arts Festival in California USA. The title of the exhibition is ‘Threads’. Threads is not just about fashion and costume, but also how queerness weaves the…

A Conversation in Re-Memory of Bernice Bing

A free event in California, USA: A Conversation in Re-Memory of Bernice Bing (1936-1998), Monday, March 23rd, 2009, 7-9pm, Timken Lecture Hall, CALIFORNIA COLLEGE OF THE ARTS, San Francisco campus, 1111 Eighth Street (at 16th & Wisconsin St.) Speakers: Moira Roth, Trefethen Chair of Art History, Mills College Kim Anno,…

Cut And Paste – Hannah Höch’s Photomontages

  Slideshow with Hannah Höch’s works of art Hannah Höch (1889 – 1978) was a German Dada artist. She studied at the Kunstgewerbeschule Charlottenburg and at School of the Royal Museum of Applied Arts in Berlin. In 1919 she became a member of the Dada movement. Hannah is best known for her photomontages,…

Print Dyke Action Machine’s Posters And Plaster Your Neighborhood

Lesbian Americans, poster by DAM! 1998 A New Public Artproject by DAM! Dyke Action Machine! (DAM!) is a two-person public art project founded in 1991 by artist Carrie Moyer and photographer Sue Schaffner. Their campaign posters incorporated lesbian images into recognizably commercial contexts, revealing how lesbians are and are not…

Feminine Moments Presents Queer Photographer Anastasia Kuba

Anastasia Kuba is a San Francisco based photographer originally from Russia. She moved to United States on her own at the age of 20 in 2003. Partially because Anastasia felt lost in cultural and language differences, she turned to visual art as a universal way of self expression and communication….

The Winners Of The 2008 Astraea Lesbian Visual Arts Fund

The winners of the 2008 Astraea Lesbian Visual Arts Fund (USA) are Jess Dunn, Elaine Gan and Amey Gee. The Astraea Lesbian Visual Arts Fund promotes the work of contemporary lesbian visual artists. Grants are awarded to artists working in an array of media including sculpture, painting, prints, mixed media…