Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art

Screening Wednesday, November 18, 4-5:30 PM, VITAL RESPONSE by multimedia artist Joseph Liatela (@josephliatela) is the second installment of our new series, Remote Intimacies. The screening will be followed by a conversation between the artist and curator and scholar Jeanne Vaccaro (@whateverjeanne). RSVP via the link in our profile! VITAL RESPONSE (2020) is a video work that seeks to re-imagine the future of the cultural, historical, and political space of the queer bar. From anti-sodomy laws to police raids, to the Stonewall riots, to the ongoing AIDS crisis, to the Pulse Orlando mass shooting—the queer bar has endured as a necessary site for social gathering and queer world making, providing a respite from the rigid and prescribed social and cultural parameters of (heterosexual) public space. VITAL RESPONSE seeks to imagine how queer people may re-enter, re-imagine, and re-configure the socially, culturally, and politically meaningful, as well as complex, space of the queer bar in this current moment of physical distancing and uncertainty. Remote Intimacies is a series of experimental performances created specifically for online viewing and commissioned and co-organized by the ONE Archives at USC Libraries (@onearchives) and the Museum.

Screening Wednesday, November 18, 4-5:30 PM, VITAL RESPONSE by multimedia artist Joseph Liatela (@josephliatela) is the second installment of our new series, Remote Intimacies. The screening will be followed by a conversation between the artist and curator and scholar Jeanne Vaccaro (@whateverjeanne). RSVP via the link in our profile!   VITAL RESPONSE (2020) is a video work that seeks to re-imagine the future of the cultural, historical, and political space of the queer bar. From anti-sodomy laws to police raids, to the Stonewall riots, to the ongoing AIDS crisis, to the Pulse Orlando mass shooting—the queer bar has endured as a necessary site for social gathering and queer world making, providing a respite from the rigid and prescribed social and cultural parameters of (heterosexual) public space. VITAL RESPONSE seeks to imagine how queer people may re-enter, re-imagine, and re-configure the socially, culturally, and politically meaningful, as well as complex, space of the queer bar in this current moment of physical distancing and uncertainty.   Remote Intimacies is a series of experimental performances created specifically for online viewing and commissioned and co-organized by the ONE Archives at USC Libraries (@onearchives) and the Museum.

Screening Wednesday, November 18, 4-5:30 PM VITAL RESPONSE by multimedia artist Joseph Liatela (@josephliatela) is the second installment of our new series, Remote Intimacies. The screening will be followed by a conversation between the artist and curator and scholar Jeanne Vaccaro (@whateverjeanne). RSVP via the link in our profile!   VITAL RESPONSE (2020) is a video work that seeks to re-imagine the future of the cultural, historical, and political space of the queer bar. From anti-sodomy laws to police raids, to the Stonewall riots, to the ongoing AIDS crisis, to the Pulse Orlando mass shooting--the queer bar has endured as a necessary site for social gathering and queer world making, providing a respite from the rigid and prescribed social and cultural parameters of (heterosexual) public space. VITAL RESPONSE seeks to imagine how queer people may re-enter, re-imagine, and re-configure the socially, culturally, and politically meaningful, as well as complex, space of the queer bar in this current moment of physical distancing and uncertainty.   Remote Intimacies is a series of experimental performances created specifically for online viewing and commissioned and co-organized by the ONE Archives at USC Libraries (@onearchives) and the Museum.

Only 2 hours to go before our virtual Gala & Art Auction begin. Here’s a #sneakpeak of the stop motion welcome animation by artist Greg Corbino (@g.corbino) the creative mastermind behind tonight's virtual underwater fantasy theme. Join us #TONIGHT 8-10 pm (EDT) to celebrate community leaders working at the intersection of the arts and social justice! The program features film, art, music, special guest appearances, and more! Corbino is a queer artist who makes immersive installations, sculptures, and performances. His work is deeply invested in nature, joy, and justice - and created entirely from recycled materials, which is to say trash but let's be honest - there's no such thing as trash. In addition to the animations, sets, extravagant merpeople, and sea creature costumes, Corbino has created dynamic Zoom backgrounds, masks and beards for all of our guests. Head to leslielohman.com to get your ticket now! Can’t make it to the Gala? You can still show your support by bidding at our LIVE art auction and/ or making a donation. 100% of the gala & auction proceeds directly benefit the Museum and our programs. #LLMGala2020 #leslielohmanmuseum [Video: stop motion animation, by Greg Corbino (@g.corbino), 2020]

Our virtual gala & art auction is Tuesday, October 20 from 8-10 pm. You can expect a night of film, art, music, and more. We are thrilled to kick off the evening with the premiere of Brontez Purnell’s (@brontezpurnell) film, “100 BOYFRIENDS MIXTAPE #3: F**K BOY ANTHEM: HOW I SPENT MY SUMMER VACATION”. If you witnessed Purnell’s performance earlier this month as part of “Remote Intimacies” co-hosted with @onearchives you know this film is not to be missed! Head to LeslieLohman.com or follow the link in our profile to get your tickets! 100% of proceeds directly benefit the Museum and our programs. See you at the Gala!

Indigenous People’s Day is every day! Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art celebrates and honors Indigenous nations and communities around the world, including Native American communities and their legacies. Take today, and every day as an opportunity to expand your awareness and support queer Indigenous artists. From August through September #KnowledgeofWounds, the collaborative curatorial practice of artist and writer S.J Norman (Koori, Wiradjuri descent) (@vitreous_lustre) and writer and scholar Joseph M. Pierce (Cherokee Nation) (@pepepierce) took over our Instagram account to spotlight a trans-hemispheric network of queer Indigenous and diasporic artists and cultural workers. Check out the features on our feed and watch the KoW highlights saved in our profile to see an incredible collection of visual art, poetry, dance, and film. To learn more about queer indigenous knowledge, art, action, and medicine follow the artists and #KoW curators S.J Norman and Joseph Pierce. #LeslieLohmanMuseum Image details: Brian Fuata, “of a house besieged (preposition tweaked)”, 2020; Natalie Ball (@natalie_m_ball), “I Heart Rez Boys”, 2019; Viva Ruiz (@chocolatinaruiz), “TGFA Vaticano”, 2019. Carlos Martiel (@martielcarlos), “Vanishing Point”, 2013; Peter Waples-Crowe (@peterwaplescrowe), “K2020”, 2020. Irihipeti Waretini & Bella Waru (@bella_waru_), “Bats, Moths & Centipedes: What we lose in the dark…”(still), 2020.

Have you registered for our online conversation with Chitra Ganesh (@chitraganeshbkny) and Amber Musser (@a_jamilla)? Join us #tomorrow, Wednesday, September 16, from 6:30-8 PM to hear Ganesh and Musser discuss queer femininity, racial equity, and Ganesh's ongoing practice. ⁠⁠ This program is co-hosted by the Museum and IPCNY (@ipcny), it is free and open to the public. ASL interpreting service will be provided. Please RSVP via the link in our profile. #LeslieLohmanMuseum #IPCNY #ChitraGanesh #AmberMusser [Image 1: Chitra Ganesh. Courtesy of Chitra Ganesh.⁠⁠ Image 2: Amber Musser, photo by Maureen Catbagan, 2019.]

Have you registered for our online conversation with Chitra Ganesh (@chitraganeshbkny) and Amber Musser (@a_jamilla)? Join us #tomorrow, Wednesday, September 16, from 6:30-8 PM to hear Ganesh and Musser discuss queer femininity, racial equity, and Ganesh's ongoing practice. ⁠⁠ This program is co-hosted by the Museum and IPCNY (@ipcny), it is free and open to the public. ASL interpreting service will be provided. Please RSVP via the link in our bio. #LeslieLohmanMuseum #IPCNY #ChitraGanesh #AmberMusser [Image 1: Amber Musser, photo by Maureen Catbagan, 2019. Image 2: Chitra Ganesh. Courtesy of Chitra Ganesh.⁠⁠]

Announcing our virtual Fall Gala on October 20! Hosted online for the first time, the event honors leaders at the intersection of the arts and social justice. We celebrate our communities' efforts to ensure the Museum's programming continues during these uncertain times. Additional ticket and program details to follow. Save the date, and join us in celebrating a queer future for all! #LeslieLohmanMuseum #LLMGala2020

[Max Colby: Leslie-Lohman Artists Fellow]

Happy #FellowsFriday! Today we are taking a look at the practice of interdisciplinary artist Max Colby (they/them) @maxcol. Colby creates intricate works of embroidery, textile, drawing, and painting that investigate, through a Queer lens, structures of power, and the notions of gender, sexuality, and race that they construct. In their work, Colby employs specific material references that evoke imperial and colonial associations but subverts those meanings by reclaiming and transforming the objects. In this studio update, Colby shows us sculptures and wall works from “They Consume Each Other” and “Elegies,” discussing the two bodies of work and their significance. They introduce their new series of works of paper and show some other pieces in progress.

Queer gender-non-conforming multimedia artist and documentary filmmaker, Seyi Adebanjo (they/them)(@seyiadebanjo), aims to raise awareness surrounding social issues and to create a bridge between spirituality and social justice through their films, photography, and writing. Seyi’s work centers BIPOC folks, women of color, trans folks, and the Queer community exploring various themes essential to social justice discourses such as immigration and racial equity. “Filmmaking has always been really expansive and exciting for me in the way that it can reach a mass audience and with that audience, I always look at how are my communities present in my work,” Adebanjo says. Their work demonstrates the intersections of spirituality and politics, highlighting cultural practices, identities, and spiritual communities. In this #FellowsFriday video, Adebanjo provides insight into their process that seeks to elevate diverse voices and engage with communities. They also discuss their latest short documentary that examines Orisha spirituality and gender.

Today on Queer Art TV: #LLMLearningMoments, the Museum's teaching artists and educators Camilo Godoy (@camilogodoy) and Edwin Gonzalez (@edvroom) analyze a work of art from the #LeslieLohmancollection that you may recognize from a post we featured on our #Instagram feed last week, "Still Life with Zerit" (2000) by #JoeyTerrill (b. 1955). In addition to taking a deep dive into the work and Terrill’s process, the educators propose an activity to engage with the artwork at home. Joey Terrill's artwork “Still Life with Zerit” (2000) recontextualizes Pop Art techniques within the context of his own identities of being HIV+ and #Latinx. His use of objects that are overtly connected with Chicanx culture and history, e.g. corn, guacamole, and an image of an Aztec god, subvert the work of artists such as Tom Wesselmann whose subject matter explored post-war white American suburban domestic spaces. #LeslieLohmanMuseum [Cover image: Joey Terrill, "Apoya Tus Hermanos Con VIH", 1994, calendar, courtesy of the artist.]

Catalina Schliebener (@catalina_schliebener) is a visual artist and educator from Santiago, Chile, and is based in Brooklyn, NY. They work primarily with collage, mixed media, found objects and installation, exploring concepts of childhood and gender. “I am really interested in working around childhood because it’s a period of our life that is an in-between moment. Reality and fiction are not super defined in away. They are mixed. My work kind of erases those limits between fiction and reality” Schliebener says. Their practice tends to be series based and uses images and objects as starting points. In this #FellowsFriday video, Schliebener discusses their new body of work inspired by the “satanic panic phenomenon” of the 1980s and describes her process of combining narratives to intervene with established ones and develop new meanings.

Happy Friday! Continuing our #FellowsFriday series, today we are looking at the practice of the multimedia artist, animator, and performer Carrie Hawks (@mmaroonhorizon). Hawks’ work as a director and animator harnesses the power of animation to tell stories that address gender, Queerness, and Blackness. “My purpose as an artist is to heal myself and others, primarily people of color and queer people, those are the folks that I care about the most and also feel like need a lot of support,” Hawks says. In this studio update, Hawks talks about their recent interactive animation projects, their love of dolls, gravitating towards an artmaking process that brings them more joy, and their fascination with snails.

Happy International Drag Day! Today we are honoring the legacy and influence that drag artists have had on Queer culture, from #Queens like William Dorsey Swann (c. 1858), who was also one of the first self-identified #DragQueens to more contemporary figures like Ru Paul (@rupaulofficial). The above snippet was captured by filmmaker Jim Hubbard at a 1992 #NewYorkCity #Pride parade and features @rupaulofficial waving to the crowd from her float. This footage (and more) were digitized by the XFR Collective (@xfrcollective) during their week-long residency at the Museum as part of #ARCH, last August. Head to leslielohmanloft.org to view Hubbard’s archival Pride compilation from 1983-2014. Pride month is technically over, but the fight for equality and justice for QTBIPOC (Queer, Trans, Black, Indigenous, People of Color) is far from realized. Please continue to support organizations fighting for QTBIPOC lives by visiting the DONATE PAGE on #theloft

Welcome to QUEER ART TV: #LLMLearningMoments. This week, the Museum's teaching artists and educators Camilo Godoy (@camilogodoy), Savannah Knoop, and Buzz Slutzky (@buzzslutzky) analyze a work of art from the Leslie-Lohman collection, “Jane Heap" (circa 1928), by #BereniceAbbott, and propose an activity, to engage with the artwork at home. Berenice Abbott (1898-1991) was an American photographer known for photographing #NewYorkCity architecture and urban life, as well as portraits of important cultural figures such as Jane Heap, who was a notable literary magazine editor. Abbott was not publicly out as a lesbian during her lifetime, despite being openly partnered with Elizabeth McCausland within her social circle. This video discusses Abbott’s relationship to queer identity, artistic lineage, formalism, and history. QUEER ART TV: Learning Moments is a new series of educational videos grounded in works from the Leslie-Lohman Museum collection. This series is facilitated by our Teaching Artists who typically work with gender and sexuality alliances in New York City schools. Each video is accompanied by an activity you can do at home in response to the lesson and is appropriate for all ages (not just kids). Visit more #LLMLearningMoments on our IGTV channel and don’t forget to tag the Museum in your responses. #LeslieLohmanMuseum #BereniceAbbott #EugeneAtget #LLMLearningMoments #LeslieLohmanCollection

Welcome to QUEER ART TV: #LLMLearningMoments. This week, the Museum's teaching artists and educators Camilo Godoy (@camilogodoy), Savannah Knoop, and Buzz Slutzky (@buzzslutzky) analyze a work of art from the Leslie-Lohman collection, “Jane Heap" (circa 1928), by #BereniceAbbott, and propose an activity, to engage with the artwork at home. Berenice Abbott (1898-1991) was an American photographer known for photographing #NewYorkCity architecture and urban life, as well as portraits of important cultural figures such as Jane Heap, who was a notable literary magazine editor. Abbott was not publicly out as a lesbian during her lifetime, despite being openly partnered with Elizabeth McCausland within her social circle. This video discusses Abbott’s relationship to queer identity, artistic lineage, formalism, and history. QUEER ART TV: Learning Moments is a new series of educational videos grounded in works from the Leslie-Lohman Museum collection. This series is facilitated by our Teaching Artists who typically work with gender and sexuality alliances in New York City schools. Each video is accompanied by an activity you can do at home in response to the lesson and is appropriate for all ages (not just kids). Visit more #LLMLearningMoments on our IGTV channel and don’t forget to tag the Museum in your responses. #LeslieLohmanMuseum #BereniceAbbott #EugeneAtget #LLMLearningMoments #LeslieLohmanCollection

Welcome to QUEER ART TV: #LLMLearningMoments. This week, the Museum's teaching artists and educators Camilo Godoy (@camilogodoy), Savannah Knoop, and Buzz Slutzky (@buzzslutzky) analyze a work of art from the Leslie-Lohman collection, “Jane Heap" (circa 1928), by #BereniceAbbott, and propose an activity, to engage with the artwork at home. Berenice Abbott (1898-1991) was an American photographer known for photographing #NewYorkCity architecture and urban life, as well as portraits of important cultural figures such as Jane Heap, who was a notable literary magazine editor. Abbott was not publicly out as a lesbian during her lifetime, despite being openly partnered with Elizabeth McCausland within her social circle. This video discusses Abbott’s relationship to queer identity, artistic lineage, formalism, and history. QUEER ART TV: Learning Moments is a new series of educational videos grounded in works from the Leslie-Lohman Museum collection. This series is facilitated by our Teaching Artists who typically work with gender and sexuality alliances in New York City schools. Each video is accompanied by an activity you can do at home in response to the lesson and is appropriate for all ages (not just kids). Visit more #LLMLearningMoments on our IGTV channel and don’t forget to tag the Museum in your responses. #LeslieLohmanMuseum #BereniceAbbott #EugeneAtget #LLMLearningMoments #LeslieLohmanCollection

“Some of my projects take twenty minutes. Some of my projects take five years” says multidisciplinary artist, performer, and educator Buzz Slutzky (they/them) (@buzzslutsky). In their practice, they use drawing, painting, sculpture, installation, writing, video, and humor to explore trans and Queer identity within mashed up historical contexts. Their work often draws inspiration from the reinterpretation of other artists’ works. In this #FellowsFriday video, Slutzky discusses their path to becoming an artist, from drawing with Mr. Sketch markers to their early lessons on material and form. They show us the drawings they have been working on lately and talk about where they have been finding inspiration. And fun fact today, July 10 is their birthday. Happy Birthday, Buzz!

“Craft sees the skilled hand as a thinking hand, one that gathers information from the repetitive intentional contact with the material and the world at large. How one touches and what they touch informs how they make,” says Caitlin Rose Sweet (@caitlinrosesweet). She sees her hands as sites of political resistance, sexual pleasure, and tools for crafting ceramics infused with her haptic knowledge that constantly poke holes into the social constructs of what constitutes a good body and proper craft techniques. Her work is intentionally messy, and the sloppiness of the craft is an expression of her refusal to assimilate. In her work, Sweet focuses on how domestic objects create and maintain cultural identity throughout time. For this #FellowsFriday video join Sweet in her Upstate studio to about the correlations among ceramic vessel, the body, femininity, and domestic labor within her practice. #LeslieLohmanMuseum #CaitlinRoseSweet

Bienvenidos a QUEER ART TV:#LLMLarningMoments. Esta semana, Los artistas docentes y educadores Catalina Schliebener (@catalina_schliebener) y Edwin González (@edvroom) analizan una obra de arte de la colección de Leslie-Lohman, How I Learned (2015) de Chitra Ganesh (@chitraganeshbkny), y proponen una actividad para poder desarrollar a partir de la obra en casa. En su trabajo, Ganesh se re-apropia de de ciertos aspectos de la mitología, la literatura y la cultura popular para imaginar nuevas visiones del futuro. Puedes encontrar más información sobre la actividad en nuestra página, LeslieLohman.org. "QUEER ART TV: Momentos de aprendizaje" es una nueva serie de videos educativos basados ​​en obras de la colección del #MuseoLeslieLohman. Esta serie es facilitada por nuestros artistas educadores que generalmente trabajan con alianzas de género y sexualidad en las escuelas de la ciudad de Nueva York. Cada video va acompañado de una actividad que puede hacer en casa en respuesta a la lección y es apropiado para todas las edades (no solo para niños). ¡Visitanos semanalmente de junio! No olvides etiquetar tus respuestas. Welcome to QUEER ART TV: #LLMLearningMoments. This week, the Museum's teaching artists and educators Catalina Schliebener (@catalina_schliebener) and Edwin Gonzalez (@edvroom) analyze a work of art from the Leslie-Lohman collection, “How I Learned (2015),” by Chitra Ganesh (@chitraganeshbkny), and propose an activity, to engage with the artwork at home. Ganesh re-appropriates mythology, literature, and popular culture to re-imagine new visions of the future. You can find out more about the comic strip activity on our website, LeslieLohman.org. “QUEER ART TV: Learning Moments” is a new series of educational videos grounded in works from the #LeslieLohmanMuseum collection. This series is facilitated by our Teaching Artists who typically work with gender and sexuality alliances in New York City schools. Each video is accompanied by an activity you can d

Jason Villegas @chubbytanuki explores concepts of identity, sexual orientation, fat positivity, and gender fluidity in his work, often incorporating motifs that relate to the gay “bear” and "chub" subcultures. He creates a teleological realm of mash-up characters engaged in colorful and humorous scenarios that mirror and question societal constructs as resistance to MAGA and an abandoning of heteronormative conditioning. Villegas describes his work as “unabashedly chubby and unapologetically queer.” . . For this #FellowsFriday video Villegas shares his work in progress and talks to us about some unforeseen positive aspects of the pandemic that have allowed him more time to experiment with performance, video, costume, gender, and drag within his practice..#LeslieLohmanMuseum . . [cover image: (c) Jason Villegas, 2020]

Welcome to “QUEER ART TV: Learning Moments”! We are excited to share this new share a new series of educational videos grounded in works from the Leslie-Lohman Museum collection. This series is facilitated by our teaching artists who typically work with gender and sexuality alliances in New York City schools. Each video is accompanied by an activity you can do at home in response to the lesson and is appropriate for all ages (not just the kids). Tune weekly on Wednesdays in June! Don’t forget to tag your responses with #LLMLearningmoments. You can also find these video and more learning resources at LeslieLohman.org. Our first #LLMLearningMoments examines the work of Greer Lankton, a multidisciplinary transgender artist who created life-like dolls, as well as illustrations and photographs. Her book MY FACE, which is part of the Leslie-Lohman Museum Collection, features colorful illustrations that depict the artist’s face in various ways, calling to question the artist’s own perception of herself and her identity. Teaching Artist Buzz Slutzky invites viewers to engage with the work by making their own books of self portraits by drawing themselves ten times, ten different ways.

Queer Joy: MOMA PS1 x CHROMAT

NYC #PrideMonth event: Celebrate Queer Joy with MoMA PS1 and Chromat on Friday, June 28 from 8 p.m. to midnight 🏳️‍🌈💦 Party with #ChromatBABE DJs, special live performers, a thought provoking panel, a karaoke room, a zine making workshop and installations by CHROMAT's community of queer collaborators. More info: mo.ma/natm

Happy Holidays

The Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art is the *first* #LGBTQ art museum in the world. Thanks to supporters like you, this year the Museum has significantly expanded its reach—serving over 20,000 patrons and community members through thought-provoking exhibitions, an engaging new LGBTQ youth education partnership, and unique public programs and special events. Your new or renewed support will help us preserve LGBTQ arts and culture, recast scholarship from a #queer perspective, and provide a home for queer artists to thrive. Please consider making a gift today via the link below https://www.leslielohman.org/membership/ Photos (c): Jorge Abouyoun, BFA, Yael Malka, Tom Stoelker, Cayetana Suzuk, 2018, Leslie-Lohman Museum.

Thank you to everyone for #comingout in support of the Museum! We are honored to be trusted with your stories and images.

Thank you to everyone for #comingout in support of the Museum! We are honored to be trusted with your stories and images. #NCOD #NationalComingOutDay #ComingOutDay #LGBTQ #LGBT #LeslieLohmanMuseum

Jonathan Van Ross

She’s an artiste, henny! Jonathan Van Ness is channeling some serious Bob Ross vibes with his visual representation of Georgia. Allow us to extend a personal invitation to you to get your brushes and your paints and paint along with us. 🎨🖌👨🏻‍🎨 –––––– Come on over to see this painting on display along with other exclusive content. Available today through August 8th. 🖼

#fiercepussy installation

It's finally happening! Thanks to your support, #fiercepussy has started to install their work on the Museum's façade. Join us, Wednesday, June 6th, at our Summer Benefit and help us honor the art of fierce pussy, and this new iteration of the QUEERPOWER façade. GET YOUR TICKETS NOW: bit.ly/fiercepussy

#fiercepussy

Did you know that our upcoming #QUEERPOWER installation by fierce pussy will be one of the first times they will create and post their guerilla style work inside a queer institution? Fierce pussy's work has always engaged with the public and occupied the streets, but it has done so by carving out a queer space/voice with in a typically straight world. Support our #Kickstarter campaign today help us bring #queer visibility to all of NY! With a pledge as little as $10 you can help make this project a reality; Pledge $25 or more and receive a Limited Edition Installation postcards. We’ll mail you two, one for you and a family member or friend — or get inspired by fierce pussy’s own 1992 greeting card campaign and send one to the politician of your choice! #fiercepussy #QUEERPOWER #leslielohmanmuseum

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https://kck.st/2jHvH1b Our next façade installation opens this summer and is being produced by the queer artist collective, #fiercepussy. They will take over the Museum with their guerrilla-style posters covering our building’s facade. Support this project and JOIN our Kickstarter campaign. Pledge $100 or more and receive a ticket to our benefit party honoring the artist collective, and receive a limited edition Museum tote by artist Cupid Ojala!