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John R. Clarke and Jonathan Weinberg are recipients of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation fellowships for 2002.

Photographer Joyce Culver’s portrait work is currently appearing in the inaugural issue (July/August) of Velvet Park, a new lesbian magazine. She began shooting “Intimate portraits” over 20 years ago. The women shown here were photographed between the years 1994-1995 at the Michigan Women’s Music Festival, the Lesbian Pride Dance in NYC, and the North Fork Fund Benefit for Women in Orient, N.Y. She will be having a one-person exhibition called “A Change of Mind: An Alzheimer’s Portrait” at the Albuquerque Museum in New Mexico, January-April 2003. The images are portraits of her father (who died of Alzheimer's disease), her mother, and other caretakers. A 40-page catalog will be available with photos and interviews to go along with the exhibit. For more information on Velvet Park, visit their website at http://www.velvetparkmagazine.com

Laurie T. Edison will be in Japan from September 14th to October 15th for a residency and exhibition at Kyoto Art Center. The exhibition will be photographs from her work in progress “Women of Japan.”

“History lessons,” a 67 minute feature documentary (2000) by pioneer lesbian filmmaker Barbara Hammer on the representation of lesbians from the beginning of cinema (1896) is being released in DVD by First Run Features in New York City. The DVD will also include a Dyke TV interview with Hammer, a photo gallery of magazine covers not included in the film, and an essay by Hammer titled “The colonized lesbian body.” Contact marcm@firstrunfeatures.com for more information.

Daniel Heyman will be in Awajishima, Japan during September-November at the Nagasawa Art Park Woodblock Printmaking Residency. Heyman was selected as the U.S. choice for the residency which invites six artists, each from a different country. He will have a show at 55 Mercer Gallery in the spring.

Jonathan Katz is now chairing the Larry Kramer Initiative for Lesbian and Gay Studies at Yale University, as well as Associate Research Professor in Art History and Women’s and Gender Studies.

Norman Kleeblatt has been awarded a Getty Curatorial Research Fellowship to work on the reception of Abstract Expressionism in the criticism of Clement Greenberg and Harold Rosenberg.

Paul Knobel (University of Sydney) is compiling an Encyclopedia of male homosexual art. He reports that he now has 5300 entries and that most gay art anthologies and bibliographies are entered.

A Special Committee of the University of Pittsburgh, appointed by the Chancellor, has determined after a ten-month study that it would be imprudent to offer same-sex benefits to its employees. Caucus member Ray Anne Lockard has been a party in the suit, initially filed in 1996 by Deborah Henson; Ray Anne spoke about the situation during the professional issues lunchtime session in Philadelphia.

Mary Patten had a piece included in the Art Council show at Gallery 312 in Chicago, through May 12. Her 3-channel video installation (11 min. loop) is titled “Letters and conversations: New York-Chicago, fall 2001.”

Jim Sanders has been appointed an associate editor of the new international quarterly Journal of gay and lesbian issues in education. In his role with the journal, he will be editing visual material for inclusion in each issue. For the first issue, visual arts created by GLBTQ youth will be published. If you have any students (under 21), younger queer friends or work with those working with queer children whose work would be appropriate for publication, or if you have questions, suggestions, or feedback, contact Jim Sanders at jsanders@netunlimited.net Note that JGLIE is one of the Haworth journals available at a discounted price when ordered with your membership.

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Educational issues relating to GLBTQ individuals can be expressed visually as well as textually. The new international quarterly Journal of gay and lesbian issues in education welcomes submissions of original art (e.g. photographs, silkscreens, painting) that speak to queer issues in education and/or is produced by GLBTQ youth (21 or under in age). Digitally scanned images (600 dpi TIFF format no larger than 6” x 8”) are published in black & white format in the journal. For additional guidelines or to submit work, contact Jim Sanders at jsanders@netunlimited.net For more information about the journal: http://www.jtsears.com/jglie

Jim Saslow talked about “New York’s waterfront as gay space and symbol” during Pride Week in New York. His lecture on 26 June 2002 was at the South Street Seaport Museum. Fantasy, rakishness and adventure in the works of Cadmus, Demuth, Wojnarowicz and others.

Kirk Varnedoe has left the Museum of Modern Art in New York for the faculty of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. Among his projects is a book on Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg and Cy Twombly.

Links to member web pages have been added to the QCA newsletter page at http://artcataloging.net/glc/glcn.html If you are a current member of the caucus and would like to be linked here, please notify Sherman Clarke at sherman.clarke@nyu.edu


IN MEMORIAM


Larry Rivers (1923-2002), painter and sculptor, musician, filmmaker, and teacher died on August 14th at his home in Southampton, New York. He was 78. Born Yitzroch Loiza Grossberg, he changed his name as an adult. He had 42 one-man shows from New York to Tokyo and received a major retrospective this year at the Corcoran Gallery in Washington, D.C. Although primarily heterosexual, in his autobiography What Did I Do? under the section heading “Queer,” he wrote, “Sex with men wasn't exactly my bag, but if they got my cock hard they could have it.”

Out of his affair with poet/critic Frank O'Hara, Rivers produced one of his most famous nudes, “O'Hara.” One of his more controversial gay-themed works is “Lampman Loves It,” a 1966 sculptural depiction of interracial anal sex.

The great O’Hara portrait was in the Corcoran retrospective this year. Near it on the wall was “Twenty-five cent summer cap,” a double portrait of Arnold Weinstein from 1956. It appeared to be two men with legs looped together, one wearing a jaunty cap. The caption (and Holland Cotter in the Times review) however seemed to indicate just Arnold Weinstein. This and several other paintings in the retrospective played especially with queer sensibilities.


Michael Camille, medievalist and Mary L. Block Professor in the history of art at the University of Chicago, died April 29, 2002. He was 44. He was born in Keighley, Yorkshire, U.K., and attended Cambridge University. Upon completion of his degree in June 1985, he was appointed assistant professor at the University of Chicago where he was one of the founders of the Lesbian and Gay Studies project.

His book, The Gothic Idol: Ideology and Image-Making in Medieval Art (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1989), addressed the visual representation of Christianity's alien “Other” -- pagans, Jews, and homosexuals.

He received the 1997 Governors' Award from Yale University Press for Master of Death: The Lifeless Art of Pierre Remiet, Illuminator (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1996) and a Millard Meiss Publication Fund grant from the College Art Association for Monsters of Modernity: The Gargoyles of Notre Dame, scheduled for publication by the University of Chicago Press in fall 2003.

Camille received Getty, Guggenheim, and National Endowment for the Humanities fellowships and held visiting appointments at the Wissenschaftskolleg in Berlin; the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris; Northwestern University in Evanston, IL; the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor; and the University of California, Berkeley.

The Michael Camille Memorial Fellowship in support of research and scholarship in the art of the Middle Ages and issues of gender and sexuality in the visual arts has been established in the Art History Dept. at the University of Chicago in Camille’s memory.


Frank Moore was born on 22 June 1953 and died on 21 April 2002. His work addressed humanity’s relationship to the natural world, including AIDS and other diseases. An exhibition of his work entitled “Green thumb in a dark Eden” opened at the Orlando Museum of Art in June.


Queer Caucus for Art newsletter, October 2002
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