The Take-Off

The Take-Off An inclusive monthly art showcase with live performances throughout the Bay Area. Creating a safe sp

**ARTIST SPOTLIGHT**Isabel MuenzelIsabel Muenzel is a painter and printmaker based in San Francisco. Her work focuses on...
04/11/2026

**ARTIST SPOTLIGHT**

Isabel Muenzel

Isabel Muenzel is a painter and printmaker based in San Francisco. Her work focuses on personal memory and the transfeminine form. She loves working with juicy physical media like oil and subtractive monotype. Isabel works as a figure model and helps organize the local Lavender Pinball League.

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**ARTIST SPOTLIGHT**Tracy Jane GregoryTracy Jane Gregory is a fabric artist, cross-genre writer, musician, and q***r fem...
04/11/2026

**ARTIST SPOTLIGHT**

Tracy Jane Gregory

Tracy Jane Gregory is a fabric artist, cross-genre writer, musician, and q***r feminist. She has an MFA in Creative Writing and Poetics from University of Washington, Bothell and manages a tutoring program at University of California, Berkeley. Tracy co-created the artist book Possessive Spirit: A Beginner’s User Guide published by Oscillator Press and has contributed to multiple anthologies, including Best American Experimental Writing and They Said: A Multi-Genre Anthology of Contemporary Collaborative Writing by Black Lawrence Press. She currently lives in Lower Nob Hill in San Francisco. To find more of her work, follow her on Instagram at Tracy Jane Gregory. 

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**ARTIST SPOTLIGHT**St. Switches: Switchy Tarot and Multi-Perspective PerformerSt.Switches is a multi persona experience...
04/11/2026

**ARTIST SPOTLIGHT**

St. Switches: Switchy Tarot and Multi-Perspective Performer

St.Switches is a multi persona experience: King (Mr.Keith Legend), Queen (Capt. Morgana) and all your dreams in between ;) There’s also Darleen- She’s been intuitively reading tarot for 10 years. They’ve been performing dance for a lifetime, and drag for 2 years: His art and movement practice aims to invoke (political) perceptual awareness through embodied illusion. Shifting energy -> shifts movement -> shifts engagement; How will you choose to engage? What will you choose to see?

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**ARTIST SPOTLIGHT**Rhys Rainer & The No-BrainersRhys Rainer & The No-Brainers is a q***r-fronted alt folk-punk, San Fra...
04/11/2026

**ARTIST SPOTLIGHT**

Rhys Rainer & The No-Brainers

Rhys Rainer & The No-Brainers is a q***r-fronted alt folk-punk, San Francisco-based band! We perform dynamic, original songs that engage even audiences who have never heard our music before. The band is… Rhys Rainer: a pre-transition faggoty trans man who sings and plays three different mandolins. Judi Brown is an incredible bass player and fun back up vocalist who identifies as a rainbow goth. And Robert James Johnson is a totally talented weirdo that always steals the show playing shakers, gogo bells and the jaw harp in addition to his drum kit! They are a newer band but Rhys and Rob were in a previous band, Raven Marcus (cowboy glam rock), and have been writing songs together for about 20 years.

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Join us for our upcoming showcase on April 11th (5–8 PM) The Stud Collective !!!

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**ARTIST SPOTLIGHT****ARTIST SPOTLIGHT**Picklesえっとねーthrough the curiosity-and-covet-induced lenses he wears as a perferv...
04/10/2026

**ARTIST SPOTLIGHT**

**ARTIST SPOTLIGHT**

Pickles

えっとねーthrough the curiosity-and-covet-induced lenses he wears as a perfervid and perverted artist and bartender, pickles (he/him) attempts to vulnerably divulge the perceptions and desires he has navigating the complexities and nuance of gay + q***r nightlife/community. almost always with a pen, notebook, drink and/or smoke in hand, plus headphones on max volume, pickles captures what he sees in the bar scenes q***rs create as well as the other spaces in which q***rs show their many angles of beauty, ugly, and everything in between. there is strong desire for both his rational and irrational feelings of misunderstanding to be both expressed n maybe alleviated in this outlet~ 
╰(*´︶`*)╯♡ -pickles

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Join us for our upcoming showcase on April 11th (5–8 PM) The Stud Collective !!!

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**ARTIST SPOTLIGHT****ARTIST SPOTLIGHT**Boudia Lafleur:They are a diviner, ancestral worker, poet, and artist of Metís a...
04/10/2026

**ARTIST SPOTLIGHT**

**ARTIST SPOTLIGHT**

Boudia Lafleur:
They are a diviner, ancestral worker, poet, and artist of Metís and European ancestry. They were born and raised in Berkeley, California. Now they currently live in Oakland, California. They are a q***r genderfluid autistic individual that moves through the world of rivers and stones. They are also currently part of the Wakan Wiya Two-Spirit Drum that’s local in the SF Bay Area. Their artist experiences came from their own explorations as a child and then later in their late teens and in their trans-masculine era, they were a former youth participant of non-profit organization Youth Spirit Artworks in South Berkeley. They’ve specialized in paintings and now they specialize in poetry. They have thought about getting back more into painting, sculpture, music, and other mediums of art.

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**ARTIST SPOTLIGHT**Eric SingletonEric Singleton is a San Francisco-based designer and artist. Drawn to tactile ways of ...
04/10/2026

**ARTIST SPOTLIGHT**

Eric Singleton

Eric Singleton is a San Francisco-based designer and artist. Drawn to tactile ways of making in an increasingly digital world his practice focuses on woodworking, risograph, and screenprinting. His current work is rooted in the vast archival holdings of the GLBT Historical Society Archives, where the sheer density of preserved stories and lost futures inspired him to create art around q***r stories at the cutting edge of society. He makes objects and images as mechanisms for connection: ways for people to find their way into stories that were always meant for them. He lives with his partner and their dog Canela - all of them love a family outing to Fort Funston!

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**ARTIST SPOTLIGHT**Ray Gonzalez Ray Gonzalez (he/they b. South Florida 1992) moved to Oakland California in 2022, and i...
04/10/2026

**ARTIST SPOTLIGHT**

Ray Gonzalez

Ray Gonzalez (he/they b. South Florida 1992) moved to Oakland California in 2022, and immediately found a sense of home in the abundant diversity; enamoured by the sense of community and pops of natural native flora throughout the bay holding on in the cracks of urban society. Drawn to the stark contrast of positive and negative space created by relief printmaking; carving out the negative and exposing the positive, a metaphysical process. His art practice is all about healing through art. Healing connections with the earth, and healing connections: with each other building community and fostering the natural cycles of regeneration.

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**ARTIST SPOTLIGHT**MIRAAJ Miraaj is a San Francisco based singer songwriter who makes electronic pop music infusing EDM...
04/10/2026

**ARTIST SPOTLIGHT**

MIRAAJ

Miraaj is a San Francisco based singer songwriter who makes electronic pop music infusing EDM beats with South Asian sonic elements and Hindi phrasing into his tunes. He believes coming together over sharing of any art form is a kind of joyful resistance in solidarity by the community that decide to show up.

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**ARTIST SPOTLIGHT**Lady Adjacent (she/they, when in drag) A San Francisco-based drag performer.  Her experience as a tr...
04/09/2026

**ARTIST SPOTLIGHT**

Lady Adjacent
(she/they, when in drag) A San Francisco-based drag performer.  Her experience as a trans and intersex person informs their performance of gender.  Lady Adjacent is not a drag king or queen, but rather a drag jester; gender is just a social construct, so why don’t we play around a bit?!
     In spite of their often playful performance persona, Lady Adjacent also sees drag as a vessel for political statement and change.  So with this showcase performance, the Lady hopes that you find her dazzling, bright and spectacular, but also that you leave thinking of new perspectives or inspired toward some revolutionary action—however great or small!
     Lady Adjacent’s daytime persona, Cal (they/them) is currently enrolled in a full-time program for Massage+Bodywork with the dreams of opening their own private practice, focusing on trans and intersectionally marginalized bodies; please tip Lady Adjacent directly with cash or on Venmo:   
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**ARTIST SPOTLIGHT**Ashleigh CastroNew York born, California based Ashleigh Castro is a Latinx q***r photographer specia...
04/09/2026

**ARTIST SPOTLIGHT**

Ashleigh Castro

New York born, California based Ashleigh Castro is a Latinx q***r photographer specializing in portrait, performance, family, street and agricultural photography. She works in film and digital mediums and received a BA in Fine Art Photography with a minor in Journalism from San Francisco State University. Ashleigh’s dedication to the darkroom and printmaking as well as a tenure in a photolab shows skill and talent that many in modern photography have forgotten. Ashleigh’s photographs transcend time through the use of film and vintage technique.

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