UNCENSORED: QUEER ART AND THE CHURCH

Press release

UNCENSORED: Queer Art and the Church
March 27-31, 2012

Leslie-Lohman Annex
127-B Prince Street, New York, NY 10012
Submit artwork online at uncensoredexhibition.org until March 20, 2012

CALL FOR ENTRIES: uncensoredexhibition.org
[February 2012-New York, NY] In response to the church’s recent call to censor the groundbreaking exhibition Hide/Seek: Difference and Desire in American Portraiture at the Brooklyn Museum, the Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art is hosting Uncensored: Queer Art and the Church, a week-long exhibition to which anyone may submit artwork and all submitted artwork will be shown.

Uncensored: Queer Art and the Church is an activist riposte to the shameful history of censorship against LGBTQ art and artists by both the Catholic Church and Fundamentalist Protestant Churches. The Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art firmly believes that all art should be seen and displayed without regard to content; therefore submissions to Uncensored: Queer Art and the Church will NOT be curated, edited, interpreted or censored.

Artists may only submit work online at uncensoredexhibition.org. The deadline for submissions is March 20, 2012 at midnight and all artwork submitted will be exhibited. The Museum reserves the right to reject artwork which infringes on a copyright or would be illegal under state or federal law to possess or exhibit.