THE QUEER|ART TEE SHOP is a new initiative featuring unique artist-designed t-shirts, released as open editions for a limited time. Each design is available in exchange for a donation to Queer|Art beginning at $50, with increased contributions warmly encouraged. All profits from the TEE SHOP will directly benefit Queer|Art's mission of cultivating a dynamic community of LGBTQ+ artists across generations and disciplines.

The inaugural shirt was designed by Multi-Year QAM Mentor Avram Finkelstein, and presents an unreleased graphic originally created for his fictional band, The Gender Traitors. The second drop, designed by QA Co-Executive Director Río Sofia, pays homage to The Transexual Menace by subverting Trump’s threat into a rallying cry. Learn more below.

Upcoming TEE SHOP artist tees will feature new works by Julio Torres, Hannah and Spike Einbinder, Lola Flash, Megami, Laurel Charleston, Fran Tirado, Willie Norris, and more. For inquiries please contact Communications Manager, Andrius Alvarez-Backus, at andrius@queer-art.org.

Willie Norris is a fashion designer and creative director with a thing for words. Characterized by The New York Times as a “master of bringing together,” her style is direct, poetic, and communal—an apt encapsulation of the practice she has developed and deploys through Willie Norris WORKSHOP, the creative practice and commercial imprint she founded in 2018.

Through WILLIE NORRIS WORKSHOP, her work earnestly seeks to offer wayfinding and provisional clarity for a contemporary, corporeal experience. It engages themes of modern misery, yearning, dread, escape, intimacy, connection, delusion, forgiveness, personal responsibility, and play.

Notable recent projects include serving as Creative Director for the 2025 Performance Space Gala and for Doll Invasion. Her varied roster of external brand, institutional, and community collaborators and beneficiaries includes AWAY, Dieux, Helmut Lang, Outlier, Planned Parenthood, Gotham FC, MoMA PS1, and G.L.I.T.S.

Her work is held in the permanent collections of The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute and the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum. Her story and work have been covered internationally by VOGUE, GQ, The New York Times, The Financial Times, i-D, W and many others.