Do you have an idea for a queer arts event? Would it be great for the annual month-long June National Queer Arts Festival? Join QCC to find out more about the participating in the Creating Queer Community artist career development program that gives artists the opportunity to present in the National Queer Arts Festival (NQAF)!
The CQC program annually offers $500-$1500 commissions to approximately 20 artists to create events for the NQAF and additionally offers artistic production planning, ma...
Do you have an idea for a queer arts event? Would it be great for the annual month-long June National Queer Arts Festival? Join QCC to find out more about the participating in the Creating Queer Community artist career development program that gives artists the opportunity to present in the National Queer Arts Festival (NQAF)!
The CQC program annually offers $500-$1500 commissions to approximately 20 artists to create events for the NQAF and additionally offers artistic production planning, marketing and financial assistance to artists to ensure their projects succeed.
The theme for the 2015 NQAF is HORIZON/S – Origins & Destinations/Intended & Unintended Trajectories
From the Artistic Director Pamela Peniston: Sometimes as queer artists and activists, we cannot tell where we have been until we have arrived somewhere else and look behind us to see where the turnings and choices have brought us. We are asking artists to look to their own (and/or their communities’) horizons, those turnings and choices; to explore their origins, their still unseen possible destinations; what they wouldn’t have changed and what they would’ve; choices they made that led to revelation, joy or pain and ask, would they make those choices again to arrive where they have now? Bring us into your horizon – its origins & destinations – and show us the paths it took to get there and what you hope will be there.
Since 2000, QCC has commissioned approximately 120 LGBT artists to create new works that authentically express our community’s diverse experiences. The vast majority of these commissions have been awarded to culturally-specific and gender-specific individual artists whose work expresses the experiences of queers of color, lesbians and transgender individuals.
Creating Queer Community is funded by Grants for the Arts.