Featured Artist: Geppetta

Adelaide Windsome, a whimsy-core puppeteer and uke princess who performs under the name Geppetta, is a queer fabulist, street performer, multimedia artist, and art educator currently based in Philadelphia. Growing up fairly nomadic with a fear of dolls and an overactive imagination, she naturally gravitated towards the lifestyle of a traveling puppeteer.

 Inspired by classic fables and myths, occult symbolism, street art, and surrealism infused with a pension for social/ environmental activism and transfeminist sensibilities, Windsome presents art/performance as a cryptic, yet politically aware language that is inventive and enlightening. For Windsome, performance is a tool for growth and advocacy; finding voice and empowerment in an unsettling world.

Call for Artists: Mural Painting

Queer Art School is partnering with Jacques Underground and calling you! QAS is now accepting submissions for mural painting to be completed at Jacques Underground, a performance venue and drag bar located in Bay Village near the Theatre District.

The allotted space permits 2 different murals each approximately 80" x 50".

To apply please submit:
-Resume
-5 to 10  Hi-res images of work completed in the last year
-An artist statement
-A proposal (brief paragraph or rough sketch of your design)

Application materials should be emailed to queerartschool@gmail.com

While queer 2D artists are preferred, queer and allied artists in any media are welcome to apply.
Deadline for submissions is MONDAY SEPTEMBER 20TH by MIDNIGHT.

Featured Artist: Lilla Cory Warren

Ceremonial Glow - hollow formed copper, patina, gouache; 12"x12"x2"; 2010

Alternating between abstract linear and organic figurative forms, Lilla Cory Warren works to solidify subjective relationships such as those between the inner and outer self, man and nature, and reality and spirituality. She chooses her materials very specifically, using media that suits the functionality of the object – as in jewelry – in addition to utilizing materials for their perceived or metaphysical value. Warren’s material choice informs the symbolism, on both personal abstract and more literal levels, of these objects.

Cult Pods - cast bronze; dimensions variable (ea. 2"x6"x2"); 2009

Likewise, surface design and fluorescent pigment are crucial to the impact of Warren’s work. These elements bursting from pod forms convey the inorganic psychotropic properties of her meditation objects and jewelry. In Cult Pods (2009, left), spontaneous forms in their circular arrangement reference tribal objects used for powerful ceremonies; these forms and their placement concurrently explore benign, organic growth patterns. The ambiguous nature of Warren’s work is a result of her impulse to create beautiful objects in addition to her efforts to explore spiritual themes of a personal nature.

Warren’s studies and inquiries in metal and in herself have led to multiple shows including Art in June at the Vineyard Haven Public Library in Tisbury, MA, the Stephen D. Paine Scholarship Exhibition at Suffolk University Art Gallery in Boston, MA, 3^rd St. Art Project of Greatfruit Productions in Cambridge, MA and various student exhibitions at Massachusetts College of Art and Design

Modern Shamanism - carved acrylic, cast silver, gouache; 2"x5"x2"; 2010

As a recent MassArt graduate, Lilla Cory Warren is in the process of re-evaluating her place in the art world as a jeweler and metalsmith. She spent her time at MassArt exploring cast and hollow formed metal objects. In this space she investigated her spirituality and humanity with natural and psychedelic imagery, yielding a desire to make sculptural jewelry as vessels for the energies of the wearer and her environment. Her MassArt career has led to a budding body of work addressing non-traditional gender roles of same-sex pairs and the dynamics of their relationships.


For more information please contact the artist (lilla.warren@gmail.com).

Featured Artist: Brian Patrick Adams

Brian Patrick Adams has always been drawn to telling visual stories with the use of collage and mixed media. His process consists of combining and assembling multiple disciplines and mediums within one piece. Through combining oil and acrylic paints, photo transfer, polymer resin, fabric, paper, wood and found objects, Adams explores the relationship between 2D and 3D work. The thread that unifies Adams’ work is his ultimate goal is to create pieces that seamlessly blend media and dimensionality.

Adams’ inspiration comes from several sources: occasionally from a potential title or collage pattern that he has created and at other times from a found object or hybrid object that he assembles. His images are imagined stories which are based upon narratives that he has created using religious, mythic and historical icons as well as other found and self-assembled characters and objects.

Brian Patrick Adams, alum of the Art Institute of Boston, is a visual artist, curator and professional art installer. He has been an independent curator and installer for the past fifteen years and an artist his entire life. Previous art installation clients include the Fogg Art Museum, Boston College Museum of Art and other various art spaces throughout Massachusetts and New York. He is currently Curator and Director of The James Gate Gallery in Jamaica Plain.





For more information about the artist including purchasing info, please visit his website.

Calling Queer Artists!

Queer artists are an underserved population in Boston and around the country. To remedy this on a local scale we are seeking to give the LBGTQ arts community greater visibility. If you are a queer, practicing visual artist in the Greater Boston area, we are interested in promoting YOU, online.

Interested parties should send 5-10 high res images, an artist statement, a CV or bio and any information about past, present or upcoming exhibitions. For questions or more information please contact queerartschool@gmail.com

Queer Art School is a free, independent online publication for queer art and artists in the Greater Boston area.

While it is wholly student run, Queer Art School strives to provide common resources for artists at any point in their careers in order to create a community and a "school of art".