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.
Documenting Disability
Three Channel video Installation
2:28 USA English | 2013
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 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 Harbinger
Performance and Installation
Mixed Media
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
- Allegra, Indira
- Abruzzese, Carlo
- Ahearn, Bren
- Crichton, EG
- Crusan, Jamee
- Cummings, Torreya
- Cardim, Lorenzo
- Kuhne, Kadet
- Leder, Evie
- Mia Nakano
- O’Arwisters, Ramekon
- Roper, Kolbe
- Roseborough, Tim
- Sanders, Jeremy Chase
- Scott, Micah Elizabeth
- Wilson, Angie
- Walker, Debra
The QIY Faire (June 5th from 1 to 4:30pm) will feature queer arts and crafts, zines, artisan products, and inventive creations of all type. QIY workshops and hands-on demos will be featured during the Faire. The Faire is free and open to the public.
FAIRE ARTISTS & ARTISANS
- Audatious IAM
- Anti-Palidrome, Anna
- Bazant, Micah
- : www.facebook.com/micahbazant
www.facebook.com/MicahBazantArt/
Twitter @micahbazant
- : www.facebook.com/micahbazant
- Brown, Corey and Ary Smith
- Cartoon Art Museum
- Crusan, Jamee
- Daniel, Jonah Aline
- Dhada, Roxana
- Fammead
- Hernandez, Alexander
- E. Salvador Hernanadez /KUMALICIOUS
- Katz, Dorian
- RADAR Productions
- Maynard, E. Oscar
- Miss TANGO
- www.misstangq.com
www.facebook.com/misstangq
Instagram: @misstangq
- www.misstangq.com
- ObsidianMoon Astrology
- obsidianmoonastrology.bigcartel.com
Instagram: jaliessasipress
Tumblr: obsidianmoonart.tumblr.com
- obsidianmoonastrology.bigcartel.com
- Peters, Liam
- O’Arwisters, Ramekon
- Ritual and Repeat
- Wild Fancy Design
The QIY Performance Stage (June 5th throughout the day) will feature 4 live performances popping up in the gallery during the opening reception.
DJ ChakaQuan | Social: https://www.facebook.com/chakaquan/?fref=ts
Elle Oh Elle McFiersen | Social: https://www.facebook.com/lolmcfiercen
Hollow Eve | Social: https://www.facebook.com/Hollow-Eve-509797902413798/?fref=ts
Cara Rose de Fabio | Social: http://cararosedefabio.tumblr.com/
Dulce De Leche | Social:
Beatrice Thomas | Social:
