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Pamela Peniston is a Founding Member and Artistic Director of the Queer Cultural Center. She was an initial member of Mayor Art Agnos’ Cultural Affairs Task Force of San Francisco in 1989, which helped to establish the guidelines for the Cultural Equity Grants Program at the SF Arts Commission.
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An exhibition for Black History Month Presented by the SF LGBT Community Center and Queer Cultural Center Black no longer means solely the presence of all colors (in paint) or the absence of all color (in light); it’s a simplistic term for an entire ethnicity that has been labeled African American, Afro American and Negro, […]
WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION California Lawyers for the Arts and Queer Cultural Center invite artists and creatives of all disciplines to join us for an income tax workshop for individual artists. The discussion will include record keeping, IRS form 1040, Schedule C, self-employment schedules, itemized deductions, hobby losses, and home offices. Let’s demystify taxes for artists! This […]
The Queer Cultural Centers FACEs at SOMAR Gallery, June 11 – 27, 1998 by Jeffrey Wilson Recent events have caused me to reflect on an old joke from way back in the early 1990’s that was circulating around the “art world” in the wake of the first political attacks on the NEA and its funding […]
ABOUT Learn the basics of publicity, marketing, and social media with a framework of ethics and social justice. What are the best practices for writing a description of your show, how do you get the word out, what are the foundations for image uses, and web accessibility? We will seek to answer these questions and […]
ABOUT A free artist statement and bio writing workshop for LGBTQ+ artists taught by Bay Area artist, Aimee Suzara. Space is limited to 28 participants. DATE & TIME Sunday January 19, 2020 11am – 1pm LOCATION & ACCESS 526 8th St Oakland, CA 94607 The venue and bathrooms are wheelchair accessible BRING Pen & paper […]
Curator, Tirza True Latimer, features in this exhibition works by artists who use photography against the documentary grain. Their practices – which include art, performance, visual narrative, painting, sculpture, collage, inlay, montage, and video – rely on photographic technology in some phase of the creative process.
Mia Nakano is an artist, archivist, social change maker rooted in Oakland, CA. Her work is shaped through her experiences as a proud 4th generation Japanese American, queer woman of color, daughter of a single mother, and sister of a deaf adult.
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