Blog Category: Pride

Celebrating LGBTQ+ artists in SAAM's collection and community.

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  A Brush with History: Good Hair Advice Is Never Out of Style

  Three years ago we imagined the letters of nineteenth-century portrait sitters to Jonathan Van Ness, star of the Netflix’s series Queer Eye. With so many of us looking for advice about how to tame our unmanageable pandemic hair, we thought we’d take another look.

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  Pride

  Luce Foundation Center

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  Laura Aguilar Photographs in Focus: Latina Lesbians

  Claudia Zapata, curatorial assistant for Latinx art, shares their insights on a series of photographs by Laura Aguilar recently acquired by SAAM

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  Pride

  New Acquisitions

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  Romaine Brooks: Clothes Make the Wo(man)

  Romaine Brooks declaring who she is in her 1923 work, Self-Portrait, is ultimately a transgressive act for a LGBTQ+ person.

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  Nancy Grossman and the Art of Unlearning

  Twisting Column Figure represents the freedom that comes once we commit to unlearning and undoing restrictions, from society and from ourselves.

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  Pride

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  Chicanx Queer Visions: Fighting for Change and Exploring Identity

  Artists in ¡Printing the Revolution! explore pressing issues of the LGBTQ+ community

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  Chicano Graphics

  Exhibitions

  Pride

  New Acquisitions

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  Sculpting Pride: Timothy Horn’s artworks delve into the human and natural worlds

  Learn more about the artwork and evolving career of Timothy Horn, feature artist in Forces of Nature: Renwick Invitational 2020

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  Pride

  Craft and Decorative Arts

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  What Does a Gay Bar Look Like?

  Bernard Perlin’s The Bar makes us reflect on the spaces we’ve carved out as our own.

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  Chicanx Graphic Arts in Focus: Quiero Mis Queerce

  Artist and activist Julio Salgado challenges a traditional rite of passage

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  Chicano Graphics

  Exhibitions

  Pride

  New Acquisitions

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  Seeing the Rainbow in SAAM’s Collection

  Taking a deeper look at how we talk about gay artists at SAAM

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  Pride

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  Artist Brendan Fernandes On the Dance Floor as a Space for Resistance and Resilience

  Dancer/choreographer Brendan Fernandes talks about his work, including Free Fall 49, making its East Coast debut at SAAM on June 9.

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  Programs

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  Popping (Up) With Pride at SAAM

  Saisha Grayson, curator of time-based media at SAAM, discusses the pop-up exhibition for the June 9 celebration of Pride.

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  Pride

  Programs

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