We’re honoring Pride Month with a look at LGBTQ+ artists who use languages of craft, textile, handiw

We’re honoring Pride Month with a look at LGBTQ+ artists who use languages of craft, textile, handiwork, and assemblage to express queer themes and identities. Inspired by woven and assembled forms, this selection of artworks reminds us of how seemingly small-scale, everyday gestures can create connection, community, visibility, and change. Last year’s exhibition Nobody Promised You Tomorrow: Art 50 Years After Stonewall included a number of works by LGBTQ+ artists who connected languages of craft with ideas of place, protest, community, and memory.  LJ Roberts’ monumental weaving creates a queer map of Brooklyn and its LGBTQ+ collective houses, memorializing the borough’s networks of care, celebration, resilience, and resistance. ⇒ Using tarp, textile, beads, and other embellishments, Tuesday Smillie pays homage to a banner that members of STAR (Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries) carried in the 1973 Christopher Street Liberation Day March. ⇒ The artwork-banners by Elektra KB function between spaces of activism and exhibition, exploring the political resonance of images and the aesthetics of collective action. Through poetic relationships to material and craft as well as expansive takes on the historical narrative of the Stonewall Riots of 1969, each of these artists engage with the continued legacies of LGBTQ+ liberation, community, and revolt.Posted by Joseph ShaikewitzNobody Promised You Tomorrow was curated by Margo Cohen Ristorucci, Lindsay C. Harris, Carmen Hermo, Allie Rickard, and Lauren Argentina Zelaya. The exhibition’s Resource Room was organized by Levi Narine in collaboration with the curators. Installation views by Jonathan Dorado -- source link

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