Shimon Attie has been selected one of the visual arts fellows of the American Academy in Rome. cf. New York times, Apr. 20, 2001
SPIR: Conceptual Photography - a queer feminist collaborative partnership of Jill Casid & María DeGuzmán can be found on the web at http://www.home.earthlink.net/~mdeguzman
The 4th Annual United States of Asian America Festival will highlight a major exhibition of paintings entitled “Portrait of a community” by Lenore Chinn in the Bay Gallery at SomArts (South of Market Cultural Center), 934 Brannan Street off 8th in San Francisco from May 8-June 10, 2001.
The exhibition is a collaborative program sponsored by three of the City’s cultural centers: SomArts, the Asian Pacific Islander Cultural Center and the Queer Cultural Center. It will also be a major visual arts component of the 4th Annual National Queer Arts Festival.
The exhibition’s approximately 20 pieces will offer a collective portrait of the Queer community as it has developed over the past thirty years. The exhibition will include Chinn’s newest work -- a portrait of the late Bernice Bing, who was a noted Bay Area pioneer artist of the Beat era, a founder of SomArts and its first Executive Director. Like most of Chinn’s other sitters, Bing was a local Queer artist and activist.
Info: www.apiculturalcenter.org
Preview Exhibition: http://www.queerculturalcenter.org/Pages/Chinn/ChinIndex.html
Tee Corinne has joined the editorial board of the Harrington lesbian fiction quarterly. HLFQ publishes fiction, nonfiction, and poetry, and a portfolio of art by a single artist in each issue. Submit art (with SASE, no slides or transparencies) to Judith P. Stelbourn, PhD, editor HLFQ, 11 Cambridge Court East, Old Saybrook, CT 06475 http://www.haworthpressinc.com
The Traditional Values Coalition distributed copies of the Cunt coloring book by Tee Corinne to freshman senators in early 2001. They have distributed copies before, as evidence of James Hormel’s inappropriateness as U.S. ambassador to Luxembourg. Hormel is the namesake of the gay and lesbian collection at San Francisco Public Library.
Robert Flynt’s photos are currently on view at Wessel + O’Connor Gallery, New York and some photos from his collection are included in “Dear friends” at the International Center for Photography (see calendar under 29 March 2001).
Barbara Gittings was recently honored with the opening of the Barbara Gittings Lesbian/Gay Collection at the Free Library of Philadelphia. Gittings was an early leader of the gay caucus in the American Library Association and will be honored at this year’s Annual reception, June 17th, in San Francisco.
Harmony Hammond’s Lesbian art in America was a feature of the April “In the life” TV show.
Frederick Hughes, collector and Andy Warhol’s business manager for more than 25 years, died on 14 January 2001 in New York City. Hughes founded the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts after Warhol’s death in 1987. Hughes was born in 1943 in Dallas.
Clayton Kirking has resigned as librarian at the Gimbel Library of the Parsons School of Design to become the Director of the Estate Project for Artists with AIDS.
Sandy Langer is a board member of Links, Inc. which is developing a Youth at Risk project to mentor GLBT youth. More info from linksinkq@aol.com or kelpie1@aolc.om (Langer) or 718-706-3996
Cyndra MacDowall’s “Penetrating the city” will be on tour during 2001 in Toronto, Montreal and Winnipeg. It was first shown in Glasgow in 1999 and has been in Halifax and Saskatoon.
Susan McKenna and Elizabeth Hynes are in a show which opened in mid-April at the Danforth Museum of Art in Framingham, Mass. entitled “New England photographers, 01” (runs until June 17th). They also did illustrations for an anthology on Skin edited by Jackie Stacey, forthcoming from Routledge. They are working on a small gallery space at the back of their house -- this would be the first alternative art space in Northampton.
Anthony D. Romero has been appointed the new Executive Director of the American Civil Liberties Union, becoming the first Hispanic and openly gay man to do so.
Yale University Press will hold a party on May 31st to celebrate the publication of Jonathan Weinberg’s Ambition and love in modern American art.
The ONE Institute and Archives’s new space at the University of Southern California (909 West Adams Blvd., Los Angeles 90007) was opened on May 6th. http://www.oneinstitute.org
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