Creative Labor, SOMArts Cultural Center and Qcc present
QIY (Queer-It-Yourself) Expo and Faire
Opening Reception and Faire: June 5, 1–4:30pm
Exhibition Runs: June 5 – 24
SOMArts Cultural Center
934 Brannan St, San Francisco, CA
Gallery Hours: Tues – Fri 12 – 7pm; Sat 12 – 5pm
Free
Creative Labor: Queer Visual Artists Working Group
Creative Labor: Queer Visual Artists Working Group, is an organization of Feminist, Queer, Trans and People of Color artists and thinkers. We are committed...
Creative Labor, SOMArts Cultural Center and Qcc present
QIY (Queer-It-Yourself) Expo and Faire
Opening Reception and Faire: June 5, 1–4:30pm
Exhibition Runs: June 5 – 24
SOMArts Cultural Center
934 Brannan St, San Francisco, CA
Gallery Hours: Tues – Fri 12 – 7pm; Sat 12 – 5pm
Free
Creative Labor: Queer Visual Artists Working Group
Creative Labor: Queer Visual Artists Working Group, is an organization of Feminist, Queer, Trans and People of Color artists and thinkers. We are committed to social and cultural equity and organize to promote social justice. We advance our goals through the creation and dissemination of Queer Visual Arts and Visual Culture.
Creative Labor: Queer-It-Yourself (QIY) Expo and Faire looks at material and immaterial labor that manifests itself in the work of Queer Bay Area Art and Artisan Culture. The exhibition focuses on the use of traditional craft techniques in non-traditional ways, new media work that uses code and image processing to weave narrative and experimental structures across platforms, and the idea of the Craft, Maker, and Pop-Up Market places as alternative models for economic and aesthetic transactions.
The QIY (Queer-It-Yourself) Expo exhibition is envisioned as a laboratory and experimental network for creating a sustainable queer culture and demonstrating the power of self and community organizing, re-creation, speculation, and transformation. Queer-It-Yourself culture invites artists to forge their own tools, visions and systems of exchange for confronting the everyday challenges of contemporary queer existence and to invent and re-imagine alternative modes of aesthetic and economic sustainability.
Expo Artists
Indira Allegra
Carlo Abruzzese
Bren Ahearn
EG Crichton,
Jamee Crusan
Torreya Cummings
Lorenzo Cardim
Kadet Kuhne
Evie Leder
Mia Nakano
Ramekon O’Arwisters
Kolbe Roper
Tim Roseborough
Jeremy Chase Sanders
Micah Elizabeth Scott
Angie Wilson
Debra Walker
The QIY Faire (June 5th from 1 to 4:30pm) will feature queer arts and crafts, zines, artisan products, and inventive creations of all types. QIY workshops and hands-on demos will be featured during the Faire. The Faire is free and open to the public.
Faire Artists and Artisans
Audacious IAM
Anna Anti-Palidrome
Micah Bazant
Corey Brown and Ary Smith
Cartoon Art Museum
Jamee Crusan
Roxana Dhada
Fammead
Alexander Hernandez
E. Salvador Hernandez
KUMILICIOUS
Heather C. Lou
Dorian Katz
E. Oscar Maynard
Radar Productions
Miss TANGO
ObsidianMoon Astrology
Liam Peters
Ramekon O’Arwisters
Ritual and Repeat
Wild Fancy Design
The QIY Performance Stage (June 5th throughout the day) will feature 5 live performances popping up in the gallery during the opening reception.
QIY Performers
DJ ChakaQuan
Elle Oh Elle McFiersen
Hollow Eve
Cara Rose de Fabio
Dulce De Leche
Beatrice Thomas aka Black Benetar