AKA The Mecca of Feminist art.
Cass Bird photographs a lot of Queers, you may even recognize some of them.
Cass Bird
First video: The Bloods – All girl band from the 1980s
Second video: The former lead singer of The Blood, Adele Bertei went solo and made this AWESOME video.
I was at the Portland Zine Symposium last week and met a couple Queers who run a non-profit radical artspace.
The Cog Factory manufactures Cogs in Portland, OR. We take perfectly good weirdos and turn them into obedient slaves of the dominate paradigm! We can teach you to! We can teach you how to make art, whether that be silk screen and zine making, or acrobatics and aerial dance. The Cog Factory is a safe place for people, of all types, to pursue their interests. We teach you how to manage your art like a business. We work to empower minority artists, especially those who identify as Trans, Queer, Womyn and/or a Minority.
CoG’s mission is to create art that challenges the notions on which class, gender, privilege, and other social demographics are based. Furthermore, we empower minority artists, especially those who identify as trans, queer and/or womyn, and help them create sustainable economic stability through educational programs and creative opportunities.
Embodiment: A Portrait of Queer Life in America, is an archive and a journey through a rapidly changing community and the lives of people who offer brave new visions of what it means to be queer in America today.
The site features just over 44 photographs, some with the model’s own thoughts on his/her/hir gender.
JIllian Tamaki is a Canadian illustrator who paired up with her cousin Mariko Tamaki to co-create a lovely graphic novel titled Skim.
“Skim” is Kimberly Keiko Cameron, a not-slim, would-be Wiccan goth who goes to a private girls’ school. When her classmate Katie Matthews is dumped by her boyfriend, who then kills himself because he was (maybe) gay, the entire school goes into mourning overdrive. It’s a weird time to fall in love, but that’s what happens to Skim when she starts meeting secretly with her neo-hippie English teacher, Ms. Archer. When Ms. Archer abruptly leaves the school, Skim has to cope with her confusion and isolation. Her best friend, Lisa, tries to pull her into “real” life by setting up a hilarious double-date for the school’s semi formal, and Skim finds an unexpected ally in Katie.
Quoted from Jillian’s website
Lesbian Art Show
Azsa West & Mary McAllister
June 4-27, 2009
Opening reception Thursday, June 4th, 6-9pm
Lesbian Art Show will be on view at Fontanelle Gallery, 205 SW Pine Street (between 2nd and 3rd Avenue) through June 27, 2009. Hours are Wednesday through Saturday, 12-6pm and by appointment.
Annnd…
Her Jazz Noise Collective will be in Portland on June 25th to perform at Fontanelle Gallery, just 2 days before the closing of the Lesbian Art Show.
Thursday June 25th, 2009
Musical Performances by Judy and Her Jazz Noise Collective, Time TBA
I started a blog for my own artwork. There isn’t much up yet but, hopefully within the next few weeks, I will add lots of work.
My work is mostly collage, drawing and painting.
my art
I’ve admired Maya’s work for years. I feel sort of silly that I hadn’t posted anything about her until now.
