Free guest docent-led tour of our current show, The 1970s: The Blossoming of a Queer Enlightenment, with Peter Cramer and Jack Waters.
Peter Cramer is a multimedia artist that investigates performance, film, video and installations. He is co-founder, artistic & administrative director of Le Petit Versailles community garden in the East Village, former Executive Director of Allied Productions,Inc., former Co-Director at ABC No Rio, and former Technical Director at Danspace Project. With his 22-...
Free guest docent-led tour of our current show, The 1970s: The Blossoming of a Queer Enlightenment, with Peter Cramer and Jack Waters.
Peter Cramer is a multimedia artist that investigates performance, film, video and installations. He is co-founder, artistic & administrative director of Le Petit Versailles community garden in the East Village, former Executive Director of Allied Productions,Inc., former Co-Director at ABC No Rio, and former Technical Director at Danspace Project. With his 22-year collaborator, Jack Waters, projects include a video/photo installation Pride 2001-We Remember at the NY Public Library Donnell Media Center featured in an October nationwide broadcast of PBS's IN THE LIFE on WNET.
Jack Waters is a visual artist, film maker, writer, media artist, choreographer and performer. Waters’ visual art was represented in 2014 in the Visual AIDS exhibition Ephemera As Evidence at La Mama Galleria, and in 2013 at NOT OVER: 25 Years of Visual AIDS also at La Mama Galleria, and in Not only this, but 'New language beckons us' at Fales Library and Special Collections, NYU. He exhibited in the 2008 three person show Triple Threat at Frise, in Hamburg Germany.
The 1970s: The Blossoming of a Queer Enlightenment explores the vibrant and liberating decade between the Stonewall Riots from 1969 until 1980. This historic exhibition features over 130 works from the Museum’s extensive collection of over 24,000 objects including artwork made during this significant period in LGBTQ history. Works have also been borrowed from the Lesbian Herstory Archives and the Fales Library, and the entire "X Portfolio" by Robert Mapplethorpe (1978), recently purchased and accessioned into the Museum’s permanent collection, is on display. It was this iconic body of work, made during the 1970s, that led to the Culture Wars of the following decade. “The 1970s" explores themes of political activism, body/self, fashion/style, and sexual freedom/expression.
Image: Peter Hujar, "Gay Liberation Front Poster Image," 1970, Vintage gelatin silver print, 18 x 12 in. Gift of the Peter Hujar Archive, LLC. Collection of Leslie-Lohman Museum.