‘We Remember This’
‘WE REMEMBER THIS’ VISUAL ART EXHIBIT BY TANYA WISCHERATH
SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA – June 5 – 26, 2010 – Femina Potens is celebrating Pride Month this June and wants you to join us and partake in the festivities. We have an ample amount of events ready for your enjoyment. Come reflect on life in the Queerborhood as we examine how the story of one’s sexuality plays out as a very subjective, personal and amazing one. We cordially invite you to enjoy the work of local San Francisco artist, Tanya Wischerath, as we present her one woman show, ‘We Remember This’.
Through her oil paintings, woodcuts and drawings, Wischerath creates figurative portraits of her surroundings that feel truly intimate. Her classical style creates small and treasured moments, gestures and expressions that resonate with a sense of memory and affection. Please join us for our Opening Reception Saturday June 5, at 7pm. Enjoys refreshments and libations as we tell the story of these individuals and their fabulous transgressions. Get to meet the powerhouse behind these captured epic moments. Then join us all month long as we present you with an array of exciting workshops, performances and events. Including a community mural installation in our windows by the founder and director of Precita Eyes, Susan Cervantes. Show runs through June 26, 2010.
‘We Remember This’
Artwork by Tanya Wischerath
Visual Art Exhibit + Events
June 5-26, 2010
Opening Reception Saturday, June 5th, 7-10pm
Femina Potens Art Gallery
2199 Market St @ Sanchez
San Francisco, CA 94110
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June 5, (Saturday), Opening Reception 7- 10:30pm Celebrate with artist Tanya Wischerath. Window installation by founder of the Precita Eyes Muralists, Susan Cervantes. (FREE)
June 13, (Sunday), Show You Mine, Show Me Yours: Modern Porn & Pinup Photography Workshop with Courtney Trouble; 6-7:30pm ($25) Purchase your ticket today.
June 13, (Sunday), BDSM on a Budget Workshop with Juicy Justine 8pm Get more bang for your buck! Pump up your kinky look and toy collection with out breaking the bank. Sexuality Educator, Juicy Justine will dazzle you with affordable BDSM alternatives. Get your creative juices flowing and learn how to make your own sex toys and kinky convertibles. ($20) Reserve your spot now.
June 20, (Sunday), Drag Workshop with Arty Fishal 3pm Learn how to drag it up with the best! SFDrag King winner Arty Fishal shows you how to transform yourself into an award winning drag star!($20) Reserve your spot today.
June 22, (Tuesday), Sizzle with Jack Halberstam 8pm Award winning literature series. Author of “Female Masculinity” & “The Drag King Book” presents “The Queer Art of Failure” ($10) Purchase your ticket here.
June 23, (Wednesday), Rose City Sirens Burlesque Show 8:30pm Doors open at 7pm “Since their debut as Portland’s first burlesque troupe in 2006, the Rose City Sirens have been breaking hearts and blowing minds across the Northwest. Delilah Sinn, Savvy Danger and Scusme consistently bring a unique mix of the vaudevillian, experimental, erotic and macabre to the stage. Having made their San Francisco debut at the Dyke March Landing last year, the First Ladies of Lechery are back in the Bay for more, this time headlining the Sinn Savvy Productions “Rose City Rendezvous” tour. This time around, they’ve more grit, glitter and electrical tape than ever before. Join SinnSavvy Productions at the Femina Potens Gallery for a special performance right before Pride” ($6-8) Purchase your ticket here.
June 28, (Monday), Ouch…MMM! Piercing Workshop with Xray Aims 6pm Piercing flesh can be any combination of incredibly erotic, intimate, painful, beautiful and brutal. Have you been curious about temporary piercing but didn’t know where to start? Playing with needles is fun but getting started can be daunting. This workshop will cover where to find the materials to start, safe play for piercer and piercee, proper preparation of the skin, how to set up a clean and safe play area, and how to safely pierce flesh. We’ll discuss the experience for piercer and piercee and the pain, pleasure and possible art of it all. Each person who wants to experience temporary piercing and/or being pierced will have the opportunity to do so. The workshop is two hours and will be scaled to the size and knowledge level of the group. ($20) Reserve your spot now.
June 29, (Tuesday), Bearings, a Piercing Performance with Xray Aims 7pm Piercing performance installation by Xray Aims using needles with the physical and environmental envelopes to investigate orientation and it’s many meanings. ($10) Purchase your ticket today.
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Tanya Wischerath is an artist with an eye to the zeitgeist and a hand to the classical, seeking to explain what is timeless about that which surrounds her. This is by no means an obvious aim- not one which will be captured at first glance- rather, aesthetic appeal is only an entry point into a much deeper contemplation on that which makes us human. Tanya Wischerath’s work explains that which is inexplicable; satisfying the task of a visual artist on fronts both immediate and resonant.
Courtney Trouble is a Queer Porn Icon, known for her award-winning porn site, her stunning photographs, and most recently her AVN-nominated and Feminist Porn Award winning films. Courtney Trouble is an expert when it comes to creating high-impact, creative, gritty, and raw pornographic portraits on little to no budget, and she also performs porn, makes music, writes books, and designs the websites CourtneyTrouble.Com &NoFauxxx.Com.
Juicy Justine is a highly trained Sexuality Educator with her Masters in Human Sexuality Education and Bachelors in English and Women & Gender Studies. Justine currently presents workshops on a variety of topics related to sex and sexuality in an entertaining and interactive format for individuals of all ages.
Judith “Jack” Halberstam is a leading gender theorist, professor of English and Director of The Center for Feminist Research at USC. Halberstam is the author of Female Masculinity, The Drag King Book and In a Queer Time and Place: Transgender Bodies, Subcultural Lives.
Arty Fiscal is a writer, performer, teacher and drag king otherwise known as Leslie Einhorn. Arty won SF Drag King ’98. He went on to be featured on television shows including Evening Magazine, Maury Povich, and Dick Clark’s The Other Half. Ms. Einhorn is the director of CASA, a children’s theater program. She teaches “Inner Man” workshops through the all women Shakespeare company, Women’s Will.
Xray Aims is a Boston-based performance artist, temporary piercer and educator. The fight between beauty, pain and power, and the intrigue of breaching the envelope that holds the body together, are what lead Xray to this work. Xray Aims has degrees in Art and Architecture and many years of design experience which influence the work produced. The work comes in many forms: visual art using the body as the canvas, installations in galleries, narrative performances in theater settings and some work created specifically for the camera. Xray Aims performs and teaches in the US, Canada and Europe.
