Gestures of Resistance: Anthea Black

Video: Queer artist Anthea Black from Canada talks with Katherine Bovee. Videography by Dave Roos.

Gestures of Resistance artist-in-residence. Anthea Black talks about her project at Museum of Contemporary Craft in Portland, USA. Black was in residence a part of the duration of the show February 19 – March 10, 2010 where she produced a poster in collaboration with a printmaking class at the Pacific Northwest College of Art.
On one side of the poster for the show the text is ‘CALLING ALL NEXXXT GENERATION MIND INFLUENCERS:’ On the other side of the poster reads ‘ARE YOU READY TO SERIOUSLY EFF WITH PUBLIC DECENCY?!?’. The poster is a part of printmaker Anthea’s ongoing queer poster art project ‘Looking for love in all the wrong places’ consisting of posters with queer messages for public spaces. she works with printmaking as a political tool and a tool for social change.

Slideshow: Anthea Black collaborating with students in Christy Wyckoff’s printmaking class. Photos by Chloe Dietz ’13.

Related links
Anthea Black’s poster art project ‘Looking for love in all the wrong places’.