Calendar – Events
- August 7th – November 5th – Lyon Martin Visual Art Exhibit (1748 Market Street Suite 201)
Femina Potens teams up with Lyon-Martin Health Clinic to present visual art works from artists Suzanne Forbes, Kira Scarlet, Katie Gilmartin and KD Diamond using drawing, needle point and illustration to create health awareness in the queer, women and trans communities.
Our exhibition’s goal is to create an environment that is comforting and approachable through artistic expression. We art striving to make an experience that can be somewhat intimidating more friendly and informative through art.
Visit Lyon-Martin Health Clinic during clinic hours to check out our latest exhibit and make an appointment for your next check up.
KD “Megaphone” Diamond is a radical queer comic artist and graphic designer. She strongly believes in the direct cross-over of art and politics, and uses this dogma in her every-day art practice. She’s done many illustrations and cartoons about gender, sexuality, and sex education. She’s also designed many pamphlets, flyers, and posters for various local organizations.
Suzanne Rachel Forbes was born and raised in Manhattan, and attended Parsons School of Design for two years, then finished her BFA at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design, in the Fine Art Program.
She has worked as a courtroom artist for CBS Television, as the regular artist on DC Comics’ Star Trek, The Original Series, as a book illustrator and as a portraitist.
Her paintings, comic art and courtroom illustrations are in collections across the United States. Her current work focuses on traditional portraiture with an alternative flavor and live documentation of bay Area alternative culture.
Kira Scarlet is an artist & illustrator with a passion for hand embroidery and digital art. She particularly identifies with the identities and adjectives queer, artist, feminist, bisexual, contradictory, unexpected, geek and kinky. She is currently exploring the connection between between art, hand embroidery, historical textiles, shibari, suspension and other forms and aspects of rope bondage.
Katie Gilmartin: “I valiantly attempted to embody the anguished suffering artist, but chronic backsliding forced me to resign myself to a life of delight, abundance, and gusto. I now devote myself to the redemptive power of pleasure, creating images that celebrate mirth, ease, exuberance, and lust. My checkered past includes stints as a buoyant union organizer, fabulous faux drag queen, bona fide sex researcher, and deeply engaged college professor. I now teach printmaking classes and create my prints at Chrysalis Studio in SOMArts. My work makes an appearance in the Good Vibrations video G Marks the Spot — and all twenty-seven queer words, along with almost as many of my pulp prints, can be seen on my website, katiegilmartin.com“
- September 18th – March 2nd - “My Mommy is a Love Artist” visual art exhibit
At the Femina Potens Artist Incubator at the Blue Dahlia Gallery (3435 Cesar Chavez, Studio 315) we continue to exhibit “My Mommy is a Love Artist”, a collaboration of work melding text & fantastical childhood imagery inspired by the text from Madison Young’s upcoming children’s book of the same title.
These illustrations and writings celebrate difference and the power of love that speaks to both children and adults. Featuring artists Madison Young, Angelique X Stacy, Nancy Peach, Mannette Garrison, KD Diamond, Suzanne Forbes, Brit Howard and other local luminaries as part of Femina Potens’ FP Family & Youth program.
Contact us for an appointment to visit the gallery, or drop in on one of our events at Blue Dahlia to see the show.
Exhibit will be on display until March 2nd, 2012.
ALL AGES - FP Family & Youth / Healthy Community / Art Gasm
Exhibit available for viewing by appointment.
Email feminapotens@gmail.com for viewing.
- October 12th, 19th and 26th (1pm – 4pm) – The Art of Queer Parenthood
This is a weekly group (every Wednesday) of moms and moms-to-be and other queer creative caregivers (Daddies, Uncles, Aunties) coming together to create art, writing, and film projects that chronicle our transformation and journey to parenthood.
Children are welcome to attend.
October 12th we will have guest teachers Danielle leading a creative meditation & Jen Cross leading our group through writing exercises.
Located at Blue Dahlia Gallery (Studio 315 – 3435 Cesar Chavez (between Valencia & Mission).
- October 16th (1pm – 4pm) – Crafty Witches & Werewolves
FP Family and Youth invites families to come get arty with spooky crafts for the kids, treats, & costume making for Halloween. We will have some art & craft supplies, refreshments and entertainment for the kids but we encourage kids and parents to bring any specific concepts & materials they may need to create their ultimate halloween experience.
ALL AGES. Email feminapotens@gmail.com to RSVP and for location details.
- October 17th we begin our new series of art classes for youth in collaboration with LYRIC
Femina Potens is thrilled to announce that our FP Family & Youth Program will be pairing up with queer youth organization LYRIC to teach art, film, and writing courses every monday starting October 17th – May 2012. Our course will consist of 7 queer youth ages 17 – 19 and will conclude with a screening of a documentary on the program, a gallery exhibit, and written works created by the youth during the program. We will be updating you monthly on our youth’s progress.
For more information on LYRIC visit LYRIC.org
- October 20th at 7pm Consent – Communication & Kink Community
“The Other View”, a LIVE talk show with a studio audience brought to you by Femina Potens. The talk show is broadcast live on FeminaPotens.org. Each month we will tackle a different topic for discussion that affects the queer, women, sex worker, kink, and trans communities, and this month we’re speaking to Consent and the BDSM Community. The discussion will include renowned panelists and bdsm community leaders such as Madame Butterfly & Cleo Dubois.
The Other View will happen at the Michelle O’ Connor Gallery at 2111 Mission St. in San Francisco.
Buy tickets now! (FREE for youth and health & wellness providers)
FP Family & Youth Programming / Healthy Community Programming.
Must be 18 or older to attend due to adult nature of discussions.
- October 28th (7:30pm) - Building Our Own White Picket Fences
October culminates in the collaborative gallery show Building Our Own White Picket Fences, which is a multi-media visual and performative art exhibit that offers Queer perspectives on traditional notions of family, marriage, and relationships. This innovative exhibit will offer interactive performance and art works for the audience to explore through performance, video, audio, & playful installations. Artists Midori, Monica Canilao, Harrison Bartlett, Mev Luna, Amelia Reiff Hill and Madison Young have come together to create this engaging body of work that is not to be missed. This body of work serves as a reflection of the experiences of the LGBT community relationships with their partners and families as well as creating dialogue around family dynamics that exist outside of the box.
Building Our Own White Picket Fences opens on October 28th, 7:30pm with food, wine and performances by featured artists at the Michelle O’Connor Gallery, 2111 Mission Street, San Francisco.
ALL AGES - FP Family & Youth / Healthy Community / Art Gasm
- October 30th – Femina Potens has our first Meeting!
We are so excited to be in the process of becoming our own non-profit organization and to have a supportive board of directors helping us to make that happen.
Femina Potens is thrilled to announce that actress, activist, & comedian Margaret Cho has joined our board of directors along with prolific painter & muralist Nancy Peach. Femina Potens also has a new addition to our staff, director, artist, & long time alternative community educator, James Mogul.
To learn more about Femina Potens Staff & Board visit FP Faces on theFeminaPotens.org web site.
November
- November 12th (8pm) – A Taste of Rope
Join Femina Potens for a unique and intimate erotic adventure. A Taste of Rope invites you and your submissive to join us for an erotic wine tasting featuring some of California’s finest Zinfandels. While dominants taste of their delicious crisp wines out of goblets and glassware, submissives will be privy to tasting the nuances of an assortment of wine from their dog bowls. But not only will there be wine for tasting but some of the finest rope from around the world including rope made in Japan, the Netherlands, Seattle, and San Francisco.
Experience the intricate differences in the ropes bite, toothy or sleek quality, the smell, the taste, its ability to make your submissive squeals or moan in deep pleasure. Femina Potens will provide 1 blindfold per couple so that your submissive can thoroughly experience the sensations of each strand of rope.
Please let us know if you will be requiring a pillow or chair for your submissives seat. Submissives are defaulted to floor seating on a pillow unless a chair is requested. Please email me at feminapotens@gmail.com for further requests so we can accommodate to you and your submissives needs. We will be able to take orders for rope that you enjoy at the event. Dress is fetish, formal, lingerie, or nudity. Feel free to fully express yourself and your kink.
This tasting will be limited to 15 couples or 30 persons and tickets will only be available through presale so make sure to purchase your tickets early.
Basic Couples Ticket $50 ( This ticket includes admission, wine tasting for you and your submissive, and rope tasting)
Singles Ticket Basic – $40 (This ticket includes wine tasting and rope tasting for you)
Please email feminapotens@gmail.com for address after tix purchase.
