The Museum of Queer Visual Culture
At "InterseXions: Queer Visual Culture at
the Crossroads," Conference
Friday and Saturday, November 12-13, 2004

The Queer Caucus for Art and CLAGS (CUNY Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies) is sponsoring InterseXions, a two-day conference on the status of gay art and artists in the 21st Century. Visual artists, historians, critics and curators with an interest in queer arts from the United States and around the world will converge on the CUNY Graduate Center in New York on Fri. Nov.12 and Sat. Nov. 13 for the event. LLGAF will be a partial sponsor. We have also been invited to participate.

To enliven the conference, artists associated with The Foundation will create a scale model fantasy museum devoted to celebrating the accomplishments of Queer artists and culture. Gay and lesbians artists (and art lovers) are invited to create an individual gallery diorama illustrating a chosen aspect of queer visual cultural, i.e., queer artists-the famous and forgotten (Da Vinci, Eakins, Warhol, Catherine Opie); queer driven movements (Pop Art); aspects of broad cultural influence in the fields of fine art, theater, dance, film, design, fashion and advertising; or political and social issues surrounding queer visual art (censorship, confiscation and destruction of art, and creating queer art in the closet.)

Artists can create single or multiple rooms (additional boxes are available.) Each will be assembled with other rooms to form the completed museum model-The Museum of Queer Visual Culture.

Here's what you do: 1) Pickup a box at LLGAF. Boxes measure 13"w x 8"h x 6"d (open or viewed on 13" x 8" side.) 2) Choose an artist or theme and notify LLGAF. 3) Construct your diorama. 4) Deliver your submission with your submission form to LLGAF by Saturday Nov. 6, 2004 6pm.

The prospectus for The Museum of Queer Visual Culture may be download from http://www.leslielohman.org/prospectuses/cunyconference.htm.

You can read more about InterseXions at:
http://web.gc.cuny.edu/clags/intersexions.htm.