Building Communities Through art, Action, and Resistance

The 4th Queer People of Color Conference will be hosted by University of California, Davis, USA. The conference will take place April 3rd – 4th 2009, and will focus on “Building Communities through Art, Action, and Resistance.” The organizers of the conference say: “With this theme, one of our many…

Queer Curation

Queer Conversations on Culture and the Arts brings together locally and nationally renowned American artists, writers, filmmakers, and scholars for a series of conversations to discuss a broad range of LGBTQI topics.

'Little Boxes' Visual Art Exhibition in California, USA

To recycle magazines, photos and newspaper by using them as raw materials for creative photomontages and assemblage objects are a fine way of making the most of something that little value. It is great fun to see how artists can transform old waste pictures of now value and turn them…

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….

Meet Queer Artist Anthea Black in Edmonton, Canada

Exposure Edmonton’s Queer Arts & Culture Festival 2008 invites you for an orientation at the Society of Northern Alberta Printartists (SNAP)’s studio facilities and meet artist-in-residence Anthea Black. SNAP Studio orientation for queer artists and activists with Anthea Black Friday November 21, 2008, 7 p.m. / SNAP 10309-97 Ave., Edmonton,…

Amber Hawk Swanson On Her Complicated Relationship With Amber Doll

Amber Hawk Swanson reveals details from her unique, loving and complicated lesbian relationship with Amber Doll on her webpage and video stream. In 2007 Amber Hawk Swanson produced a life size doll in her own image for their collaborative art project. In the feminist art project “To Have, To Hold…

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…