Queer Pier Workshop with Thomas Lax

Queer Pier Workshop with Thomas Lax
February 24, 2012
5-7pm
ONE National Gay & Lesbian Archives
909 West Adams Boulevard
Los Angeles, CA 90007

Queer Pier: 40 Years is a two-part workshop that includes a lecture and discussion. Thomas Lax will discuss Queer Pier: 40 Years, a year-long arts-based archiving project initiated by FIERCE—a queer youth of color organization in New York City—to mark its ten-year anniversary in 2010. This multistakeholder project documented and celebrated the history of radical organizing on The Piers along Manhattan's West Side. The lecture will be followed by a discussion about interactivity, participation and public engagement in the archive. Participants should bring ideas, projects and materials to workshop.

All attendees are invited to stay following the workshop for a reception sponsored by the Queer Caucus for Art subcommittee of the College Art Association.

Thomas J. Lax is Exhibition Coordinator and Program Associate at the Studio Museum in Harlem. In addition to organizing OFF/SITE, a year-long collaboration with the Goethe-Institut, New York, he has organized exhibitions with artists including Mark Bradford, Lyle Ashton Harris, Kalup Linzy, Rodney McMillian, Robin Rhode and Xaviera Simmons. He has also written for artist monographs both locally and internationally at venues including Artists Space; Cuchifritos; Kunstnernes Hus; MoMA PS1; Real Art Ways; and Rush Arts Gallery. He received his BA from Brown University in Africana Studies, and will
receive an MA in Modern Art from Columbia University in 2012.

This event is co-sponsored by CalArts, The Contemporary Project (TCP) and ONE National Gay & Lesbian Archives.

CalArts

The Contemporary Project (TCP) is a multi-year initiative to create new dialogues between the academy and the art world. TCP is jointly sponsored by the College of Letters, Arts, and Sciences and the Roski School of Fine Arts at USC.

ONE National Gay & Lesbian Archives is the oldest active LGBTQ organization in the United States and the largest repository of LGBTQ materials in the world. Founded in 1952, ONE Archives became a part of USC Libraries in 2010.