QUEER|ART|PRIDE is an annual summer showcase of new and recently completed work by Alumni of Queer|Art|Mentorship.

Queer|Art is excited to present Queer|Art|Pride 2020—the fourth edition of the annual summer festival celebrating work by the organization’s vibrant Queer|Art|Mentorship community of more than 160 LGBTQ+ artists. Queer|Art|Pride 2020 convenes a diverse network of artists, performers, writers, and creatives to offer an extravaganza of public programs taking place online and over Zoom on Monday evenings throughout June and July. The Queer|Art|Pride Book & Print Fair remains the centerpiece of Queer|Art|Pride and has been re-conceived this year as a digital marketplace open from June through July, with work available for sale by 30+ participating artists, activated through two SHOW N’ TELL sessions taking place in July. 

Queer|Art|Pride 2020 coincides with the launch of the 10th season of Queer|Art|Mentorship, the cornerstone creative and professional development program for LGBTQ+ artists - with applications opening on June 1.

Queer|Art|Pride 2020 (June 1–July 31)

Monday, June 1
**Applications open for the 10th Season of Queer|Art|Mentorship**
**Opening of the Queer|Art|Pride Book & Print Fair Online Marketplace (June 1-July 31)**

Monday, June 15
8pm-9:30pm EST | Queer|Art|Pride Let’s Draw the Revolution

Monday, June 22
8pm-9pm EST | Queer|Art|Film Club: Baseera Khan presents Pakeezah

Monday, June 29
8pm-10pm EST | Queer|Art|Pride House Party (with Miss Hot Girl Bijoux and The Illustrious Blacks)
10pm-11:30pm EST | Queer|Art|Pride Karaoke After Party

Monday, July 6
8pm-10pm EST | Queer|Art|Pride Book & Print Fair SHOW ‘N TELL

Monday, July 13
8pm-9pm EST | Queer|Art|Film Club: Deborah Bright Presents The Hunger

Monday, July 27
8pm-10pm EST | Queer|Art|Pride Book & Print Fair SHOW ‘N TELL

Participating Pride artists include:

Marco DaSilva, Pamela Sneed, Eames Armstrong, The Illustrious Blacks, Liz Collins, Daniel Chew, Anthony Rosado, Lola Flash, Candystore, Olaiya Olayemi, Mariá José Maldonado, Felli Maynard, Ella Boureau, Natalie Tsui, Kerry Downey, Jeanne Vaccaro, Nicole Goodwin, Mylo Mendez, Heather Lynn Johnson, Camilo Godoy, Mashuq Mushtaq Deen, Brendan Williams-Childs, Sarah Creagen, Christina Quintana (CQ), Virgil B/G Taylor, Eva Peskin & Justine Williams, Ripley Soprano, Anna Campbell, Sarah Sanders, Miss Hot Girl Bijoux, Brian Gonzalez, Neil Goldberg, Baseera Khan, and Sarah Schulman. 

Curated by Travis Chamberlain (Executive Director) and Río Sofia (Programs & Operations Director)

QUEER|ART|PRIDE
BOOK & PRINT FAIR

Digital Marketplace
Monday, June 1st–Friday, July 31st

Queer|Art|Pride Book & Print Fair Show ‘n Tells
Mondays, July 6th & 27th – 8pm-10pm EST

MONDAY NIGHT PROGRAMMING

Queer|Art|Pride Let’s Draw the Revolution
Mondays, June 15th & July 20th – 8pm-9:30pm EST

Queer|Art|Pride House Party
Monday, June 29th – 8PM-10PM EST

Queer|Art|Pride Karaoke After Party
Monday, June 29th – 10pm-11:30pm EST

Queer|Art knows firsthand how art, music, poetry, films, and all forms of storytelling can reveal hard truths and provide healing, transformative thought. As such, Queer|Art is committed to providing safe, collaborative spaces for community members to create and share work that will sustain protest and organizing efforts. On Monday, June 15th & July 20th at 8pm-9:30pm, Queer|Art is hosting Let’s Draw the Revolution sessions, where participants can engage in activist art-making, including protest signs, information/resource slideshows, and memorial portraits. The event is hosted by Queer|Art|Prize Manager KT Pe Benito and current QAM Fellows Olaiya Olayemi and Brian Gonzalez.

On Monday, June 29th at 8pm-10pm, the rescheduled Queer|Art|Pride House Party is taking place over Zoom, featuring DJ sets and performances from Miss Hot Girl Bijoux, New Orleans-based DJ, hype girl, and Studio 54 nostalgic; and The Illustrious Blacks, Neo Afro Futuristic Psychedelic Surrealistic Hippy duo known for generating positivity through futuristic funk, hypnotic house, space disco, and synth-pop. The Karaoke After Party directly follows from 10pm-11:30 pm, providing another opportunity for community liberation and self-expression through songs of the revolution.

QUEER|ART|FILM

Queer|Art|Film Club: Baseera Khan Presents PAKEEZAH
Monday, June 22nd – 8pm-9pm EST

Queer|Art|Film Club: Deborah Bright Presents THE HUNGER
Monday, July 13th – 8pm-9pm EST

Organized by curators Adam Baran and Heather Lynn Johnson, this special “stay-at-home” season of the long-running screening series— titled Queer|Art|Film Club— has been reformatted in the style of a digital book club: viewers are invited to watch films on their own before joining guest presenters online for an interactive discussion. Taking place entirely online, Queer|Art|Film Club will consider the secret queer pleasures of watching movies alone and reckon with questions of safety and isolation that shape queer lives on a daily basis—not only during global pandemics, but throughout our entire lives. Come be alone with us together.

About PAKEEZAH
This 1972 Bollywood musical love story set in turn-of-the-century India stars Meena Kumari as an Indo-Islamic tawai’if (courtesan) who is trained in the art of love but forbidden to fall into it. Director Kamal Amrohi relies on the suffocating, deeply entrenched battle between traditional values and the fear of difference (in this case, an independent woman) suggesting that safety and respectability is only found in the arms of a husband. The legend around the making of this film and the tortured romance between director and star adds to the salacious delight of PAKEEZAH, which translates into “the pure one”. As a native-born Muslim American artist, guest presenter Baseera Khan will explain how this film “became her coat of arms and system of protection,” while growing up in Texas.

About THE HUNGER
This erotically charged vampire film, directed by Tony Scott, has all the delights and horrors of 80s era excess, including shoulder-pads, David Bowie, gothic nightclubs, flowing curtains, slow-motion doves and rapid aging. Susan Sarandon and Catherine Deneuve play star-crossed lovers whose fates become intertwined in what photographer and artist Deborah Bright recalls as “one of the absolute BEST lesbian love scenes in mainstream film.” Beautifully sublime sets, art directed by Clinton Cavers with Stephen Goldblatt’s cinematography, elevates the horror genre into a poetic artifice of decadence and decay. Commended for its queer themes at the height of the AIDS epidemic, Bright saw this movie soon after coming out and found this “visually over the top, very noir and creepy” cult favorite resonating with her and other “adventurous lesbians.”

MEET THE MENTORS

Queer|Art|Pride: Meet The Mentors
Thursday, June 11th – 6pm-7:30pm

“Meet the Mentors” is a QAM info session for artists who are interested to apply to the program and an opportunity to introduce our new cohort of Mentors. During the event, Mentors of the upcoming 2020-2021 program cycle will be invited to share about their work, their interests in mentorship, and some of the ways they feel they are best suited to mentor another artist. It's also a moment for you to meet some of the other Mentors and Fellows in our community and hear from them about their experiences in the program.

Prospective applicants are encouraged to RSVP for this Q&A Session with Queer|Art Staff, Mentors, and Fellows, taking place over Zoom on Thursday, June 11th at 6pm-7:30pm. RSVP is required, click below for details.

This project is supported in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts.

PRIDE ARCHIVE