The installation is at Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art.
The Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art celebrates their Summer Benefit Live Loud Now with the debut of QUEERPOWER 2018, a site-specific façade commission by iconic queer collective fierce pussy.
The installation unveiling corresponds with the Museum’s summer benefit, Live Loud Now. Through the support of the Museum’s Kickstarter, the public participated in bringing this commission to life on the façade of the museum and surpassed the institution’s original goal.
Founded in 1991, fierce pussy is a New York City-based queer art collective. Working low-tech and low budget, the collective responded to the urgency of the time by using any and all readily available resources: old typewriters, found photographs, personal baby pictures, as well as printing supplies and equipment accessible in the collective’s own day jobs. fierce pussy was known for their use of wheat-pasted posters and crack-and-peel stickers that were interspersed throughout New York City in the ’90s.
QUEERPOWER’s public art installation is funded in part by the Art and Social Justice mission of the Shelley & Donald Rubin Foundation, an organization that believes in this project and fosters dialogue, encourages diversity, promotes education, and nurtures and empowers communities. The installation will be up at the Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art throughout Pride. If you’re in New York City for Pride go and see this historic expression of queer visibility.