Queer Caucus member Lenore Chinn’s “Portrait of a Community” includes 20 large, super-realistic paintings of people of color, lesbians, and same sex couples. Cosponsored by the National Queer Arts Festival and the United States of Asian America Festival, the paintings as a group offer a collective portrait of the queer community as it has developed over the past 30 years. (May 8-June 10 at SomArts, 934 Brannan St. at 8th St., in collaboration with Asian Pacific Islander Cultural Center and QCC Info: http://www.apiculturalcenter.org)
“Lesbian ConneXion/s: Visual Art Exhibition” is a traveling photo exhibit of work by 60 photographers from 15 European countries. The imagery was self-selected by the artists because it seemed to them to have a lesbian connection. It has been exhibited in Amsterdam, Ghent, and other cities and will soon be displayed in Ljubljana, Zagreb, and St. Petersburg. Five members from “Lesbian ConneXion/s” will attend the opening reception: photographer Ditte Wessels, photographer and project leader Marian Bakker, board member Marjo van loosdregt, photographer and board member Janine van Doorn, and photographer Olga Kusakova. There will also be a discussion of the exhibition by the artists on June 10th. (June 3-24 at SomArts, 934 Brannan St. at 8th St. Info: NQAF: 415.552.7709, http://www.queerculturalcenter.org, email: NQAF@aol.com)
“Young Queer Visual Artists” includes photos by Chloe Sherman, and paintings by Daphne Scholinski and by gender-bent renaissance cowboy Cooper Lee Bombardier.
11th Annual Queer Latina/o Arts Festival, produced by QueLACo (Queer Latina/o Artists Coalition), celebrates the work of Latina/o LGBT artists in an exhibit curated by Ester Hernandez and Antonio Escalante (June 2-23 at Mission Cultural Center, 2868 Mission St. at 24th). Info: 415.648.3702, www.QueLACo.org
“Life After Death: Embracing the Queer Widow” -- a community-oriented exhibition/event produced and curated by Dan Pillers/Fagart unlimited -- will feature interdisciplinary works created for, by and about members of the “Queer Community” whose partners/lovers have died. The project features the collaborative works of Tim Clare, Jim Cross, Chuck Forester, Yves Moralex, Douglas Morris, Dan Pillers, Mike Richards, Kerry Rutz, and Horehound.
“The Body, the Nude, Gender and Sex : Slide Show & Conversation” with Laurie Toby Edison whose photographic work includes “Women En Large” (fat nudes) and “Familiar Men” (forthcoming).
Point Blank: Photo Exhibition by Su Evers, Jackie Gratz, Dusty Lombardo, and Rebecca McBride, artists who are working to bring the photography back to the people and places that inspire them.
Artists Kim Anno and E.G. Crichton, who have created an ongoing community art project called “Lost and Found: A Museum of Lesbian Memory,” will lead a discussion about slippery categories such as art and community, history and identity. The event is cosponsored with the Jon Sims Center for the Performing Arts.
Caucus member Chris Reed will lecture on “There's no Place Like Home: Marking Chicago’s ‘Boys Town’.”
More information can be found at:
www.queerculturalcenter.org/Pages/Qfestival01/QAF01.html
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