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. A Brooklyn-born, queer artist of Nigerian descent, Adejoke Tugbiyele repurposed aso oke (a traditional Yoruba fabric) to create Gele Pride Flag—a work that she has carried in demonstrations and marches in Nigera and the U.S. A transcultural symbol of pride and protest, the banner reinforces the fact that the modern-day LGBTQ+ rights movement owes to a history of revolt and uprising. In the U.S., the 1969 Stonewall Riots were ignited by Black and Latinx trans women, including Marsha P. Johnson and Sylvia Rivera. For Tugbiyele, revolution remains an important part of queer identity. As the artist explains, “One day I woke up and it dawned on me that simply choosing to be me WAS the protest.”Posted by Joseph ShaikewitzAdejoke Tugbiyele (American, born 1977). Gele Pride Flag, 2014. Fabric, metallic thread, brass. Brooklyn Museum, Gift of the artist in honor of the LGBTQ brothers and sisters we lost in Orlando, 2016.24. © Adejoke Tugbiyel -- source link

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