Queer Art | Queer Archives

Queer Art | Queer Archives
Symposium: September 20-21, 2024: University of Kentucky and University of Louisville
Exhibitions: Cressman Center, August 21-October 5, 2024:  it was not written down  Letitia Quesenberry x Stephen Irwin 
Schneider Hall Galleries, September 12 - October 31, 2024: 
 Interventions: Alivia Blade, J. Cletus Wilcox, and Ren Velez, Belknap Gallery
 Not Yet / Always Been: An Archive of Queer Louisville,  Gallery X

Co-hosted by the University of Kentucky and the University of Louisville, Queer Art | Queer Archives brings together experts specializing in queer art, theory, and archival methods for two days of presentations, discussions, and exhibitions. Historically, queer practices circumvented institutions and experimented with media not sanctioned by museums. Artists and art historians concerned with queer practices therefore often devise new strategies to scour archives for the ephemeral objects and documents that constitute much of this overlooked work. By convening scholars who conduct queer archival research, this symposium centers practices that have been systematically marginalized by narratives of American art history. Our aim is to generate new interpretive frameworks to analyze intersections of queerness with race, ethnicity, nationality, disability, and socioeconomic status. Free and open to the public, please join us!  

In addition to the symposium, the Hite Institute of Art and Design and University of KY Bolivar Galleries will feature connected exhibitions featuring artists Letitia Quesenberry, Stephen Irwin, Robert Morgan, John Brooks, Beau Borealis, Alivia Blade, J. Cletus Wilcox, and Ren Velez, among others.

See the Symposium Program + Schedule.

image caption: Letitia Quesenberry, little darlings series, 2014–ongoing. Photo courtesy of the artist.