Artgasm

A multi-media visual and performative art celebration that includes exhibitions, visual artist talks, presentations, lectures, and workshops. ArtGasms can happen anywhere! We currently are talking with galleries in LA and NYC about bringing an ArtGasm to a city near you.

To date, Femina Potens has organized approximately 125 curated exhibitions featuring queer women and transgender visual artists ranging in age from artists and collaborators that are 8 weeks old to 70 years old.

For the past 4 years, Femina Potens has curated and installed exhibitions in health clinics, cultural centers and social service agencies frequented by queer clienteles including Lyon-Martin Health Clinic and The Center for Sex and Culture. These exhibitions heighten the artists’ visibility, significantly expand and diversify our audiences and generate arts sales income that financially supports our community’s outstanding visual artists or often serve as fundraisers for non-profit organizations and community health resources.

In 2009-2010, Femina Potens installed at least 30 curated exhibitions in off-site locations, connecting our community’s outstanding visual artists to the public.

Femina Potens’ exhibitions have explored important issues confronting the LGBT community such as homophobia and transphobia, gender identity, global warming, censorship, suicide prevention, domestic abuse, breast cancer, safer sex and body image. All of our exhibitions include an opening reception and an artist talk or panel discussion exploring the work’s expressive strategies and content.

For photos, press and past performance information on our ArtGasm program check out these postings:

(Photos from the program – articles, Articles /newsletters and press that have the key word ArtGasm)