I will be making 5 prints each of the below Animals Being Awesome paintings... They'll go for $40 plus any shipping costs! All prints are 11x17 or 17x11 inches.
Send me an email if you're interested! kd@katiediamond.com
Back when the internet was primarily ruled by AOL, and I was but a wee-queer who only understood her sexuality through books and the web... I discovered Femina Potens. This was ten years ago. At the time, Femina Potens only had a mission page, a calendar, and examples of artists they support on their meager, early-internet website. They were like a beacon of hope to my young queer artist soul. I babbled to my high school friends about how it would be amazing to go there, work there, exist there, breathe there!
A decade later, this August 18th, I'm giving an Artist Talk there.
Needless to say, but I've never been a subtle muppet, this is really exciting.
Info below!
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WHEN?
Wednesday, August 18, 7 to 9 pm
WHERE?
Femina Potens, 2199 Market St, San Francisco, CA
ORDER TICKETS HERE:
http://www.brownpapertickets.com/producerevent/119366?prod_id=7307
WHAT?
No Straight Lines: drawing sexuality and gender in comics
WHAT ELSE SHOULD I KNOW?
My bio/talk description!
Katie Diamond is a radical queer comic artist who fuses art with politics, graphics with sex, and education with visuals as a method of altering societal norms and breaking down preconceived notions of gender and sexuality. Her work throughout New England, and across the country at large, has been called “imaginative,” “ambitious,” “fresh,” and “creative.” Her dogmatic approach to comics and art as a transformative experience sets her apart from other artists.
For the creation of "Transcension,” a chapter in Gender Outlaws: The Next Generation, Diamond teamed up with the fiery talent of Boston-based drag/burlesque performer Johnny Blazes (www.johnnyblazes.com) to create a collaborative comic about Blazes’ experience discovering hir “genderqueeritude,” and the process of
accepting one’s trans identity as a growing, changing experience of gender and the world.
In her talk, Diamond dissects the process she went through to create the succinct and rich visuals for telling Johnny’s story, and the various struggles and triumphs of what it means to represent gender and sexuality in two dimensions. Years of study and experimentation have given Diamond the tools to fully examine and create artistic methods that allow for subtly and intrinsically altering readers’ perspectives on culturally taboo topics such as transsexuality, transgenderism, sex, and sexuality.
Facebook Event link!
