Room C197, The Graduate Center, CUNY
Join us for a lively panel discussion about the motivations & methods of radical activism, by the curators of "Graphic Activism," a current display at the Graduate Center's Mina Rees Library. The exhibit featured striking works by lesbian artists, activists, and zinesters (including Tee Corinne, the Chicago Women's Graphic Collective, Elvis Wolf and many others.)
The panel and discussion will include a slideshow of materials from the exhibit. Panelists will reflect on the ethics of exhibiting political posters outside of their original context; anonymity in political art; and the ways in which the Lesbian Herstory Archives, the repository of these graphic works, is an agent for research, art and activism today.
Speakers for this event are the exhibit curators as well as LHA coordinators and volunteers:
(in alphabetical order by first name)
Ann Pachner, Master Printer, Sculptor, Graphic Artist
Colette Montoya, MLS, Archivist and Librarian
Elvis Wolf, Zinester
Flavia Rando, Phd, Art Historian, Founder, Lesbian Studies Institute, LHA
Moderator Shawn(ta) Smith-Cruz, MLS, Assistant Professor, Librarian, Graduate Center