Join Queer Book Diorama Artists from the United States, Canada, and South Africa for a conversation about their artistic process, queer art, and queer literature!
Diorama artists in attendance:
Jason Bishop
Jennifer Corbett
Jacky Flagg
Ketch Wehr
Kate Conroy
Michelle Morgan
Michael Moran
Melissa Sky
Tim McMath
Victoria Baker
panel moderated by diorama show curators Hugh Ryan and Sassafras Lowrey
More info about the show:
For many LGBTQ people, books are the first place where we see pieces...
Join Queer Book Diorama Artists from the United States, Canada, and South Africa for a conversation about their artistic process, queer art, and queer literature!
Diorama artists in attendance:
Jason Bishop
Jennifer Corbett
Jacky Flagg
Ketch Wehr
Kate Conroy
Michelle Morgan
Michael Moran
Melissa Sky
Tim McMath
Victoria Baker
panel moderated by diorama show curators Hugh Ryan and Sassafras Lowrey
More info about the show:
For many LGBTQ people, books are the first place where we see pieces of ourselves and our identities come alive, making books critical to the process of identity formation. This fall Pop-Up Founding Director Hugh Ryan and award winning queer author Sassafras Lowrey are co-curating an exhibit at the New York Public Library Jefferson Market Branch sponsored by the Pop-Up¬ Museum of Queer History and Lambda Literary Foundation highlighting the unique relationship between LGBTQ people and literature. Books can be lifelines for LGBTQ people isolated by geographic area or other life circumstances, and we seek to break down the divide between the author and reader, to create conversation through art exploring the role of the queer book within our community.
Responding to an international call for participation, LGBTQ artists from the United States, Canada, and South Africa created dioramas depicting books that contributed to their formation of understanding themselves as LGBTQ people. Through the Queer Diorama Show we seek to increase conversation about the important role books play in one’s queer coming of age. We will be exploring queer readings of mainstream titles, as well as the pull of explicitly queer texts.
Books/Artists:
Beebo Brinker Chronicles (by, Ann Bannon) —- Melissa Sky & Jennifer Corbett
Chelsea Girls (by, Eileen Myles) —- Michelle Morgan
Dancer from the Dance (by, Andrew Holleran) —- Michael Moran
Female Masculinity (by, Jack Halberstam) —- Jenny Lin
Fun Home (by, Allison Bechdel ) —- Jacky Flagg
Mommy Dearest (by, Christina Craford) —- Jason Bishop & Tim McMath
Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit & Rubyfruit Jungle (by, Jeanette Winterson, Rita Mae Brown) —- Kate Conroy
Roving Pack (by, Sassafras Lowrey) —- Michelle Brennan
Rubyfruit Jungle (by, Rita Mae Brown) —- Victoria Baker
Time Considered as a Helix of Semi-Previous Stones (by, Samuel R. Delany) -- Daniel Roza Lang
The Story of Ferdinand (by, Munro Leaf) —- Ketch Wehr
Made possible through sponsorship by:
Lambda Literary Foundation, Pop-Up Museum For Queer History, MIX NYC and the New York Public Library