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Marca X

Marca X – Exhibition and Opening Receptions

We are excited to partner with Inquilinos Boricuas en Acción (IBA) and La Galería at Villa Victoria Center for the Arts, the Harvard Ed Portal Crossings Gallery (HEP), and the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies (DRCLAS) at Harvard University for BLAA’s fourteenth exhibition.

On view: January 11, 2018 – February 15, 2018 across two…

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saQtuary: Show Opening and Reception Announcement

                  Boston LGBTQIA Artist Alliance presents: sanQtuary

Curated by Boon and Noah Grigni

Hosted by Distillery Gallery

On View: Tuesday, November 21 – Thursday, December 28, 2017

Opening Reception and Performance: Friday, December 8, 2017, 7-10 PM. RSVP is not required.

Boston LGBTQIA Artist Alliance (BLAA) and Distillery Gallery are pleased to present sanQtuary, an exhibition…

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Call for LGBTQIA Latinx Artists in the Greater Boston Area

Call for LGBTQIA Latinx Artists in the Greater Boston Area

                Submission Deadline: Friday, November 10th, 2017 at Midnight

We are excited to collaborate with the Boston LGBTQIA Artists Alliance (BLAA), the Harvard Ed Portal’s Crossings Gallery, and the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies at Harvard University for BLAA’s fourteenth exhibition. This exhibition will offer a platform of self-expression for LGBTQIA Latinxartists,…

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BLAA's Interim Director: Dave J. Bermingham

BLAA’s Interim Director: Dave J. Bermingham

BLAA’s Incoming Interim Director:

The Boston LGBTQIA Artist Alliance is pleased to announce that Dave J Bermingham, artist and BLAA Committee member, will assume the role of Interim Director for the organization as current Director, Dylan Hurwitz, is stepping down to pursue new creative opportunities outside of Boston. Dave will assume the position as of July 1, 2017.

BLAA would like to take…

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Hydra Effect: Show announcement and reception

Hydra Effect: Show announcement and reception

Topher Lineberry

SHOW RUN DATES: June 5- July 14, 2017

CLOSING RECEPTION: July 7, 2017 6-8pm RSVP (not required)

SHOW LOCATION: Midway Studios Gallery, Fort Point

Hydra Effect: The hydra effect or hydra paradox owes its name to the Greek legend of the Lernaean Hydra which grew two heads for each one cut off, and is used figuratively for counter-intuitive effects of actions to reduce a problem…

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Open Call for Curatorial Project Proposals

Open Call for Curatorial Project Proposals

Open Call for Curatorial Project Proposals

The Boston LGBTQIA Artist Alliance (BLAA) is excited to announce an open and rolling call for curatorial project proposals.

Guidelines:

Exhibition that brings together LGBTQIA artists’ work around a theme and/or process(es)

Exhibition must include at least 3 artists from the Greater Boston area and a minimum of 5 artists in the project

Curator(s) and…

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Call for Submissions for BLAA’s Summer 2017 Exhibition

Call for Submissions for BLAA’s Summer 2017 Exhibition

Call for Submissions for BLAA’s Summer 2017 Exhibition

The Boston LGBTQIA Artist Alliance’s Summer 2017 Exhibition will be an exploration and celebration of the cultural value and significance of the arts in light of the current political climate. Harking back to the “NEA Four” and the conservative establishment’s attack on arts funding in the 80s/90s, the imminent future promises to be a…

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BLAA's Post-Election Statement

BLAA’s Post-Election Statement

In our current political reality, the Boston Lgbtqia Artist Alliance(BLAA) believes that the arts can be a powerful organizing tool, a place where stories can be shared, and radical encounters with difference are possible. We at BLAA are committed to continuing to create spaces where this is possible. BLAA stands firmly against any form of racism, transphobia, ableism, homophobia, and misogyny,…

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Trans Solidarity Gathering at Gallery 263

Trans Solidarity Gathering at Gallery 263

                      On December 3rd, 2016, BLAA hosted a Trans Solidarity Gathering at Gallery 263 in conjunction with trans/draw, BLAA’s fall 2016 exhibition. Folks gathered to discuss the exhibition, as well as take part in other offerings, which included free legal counsel from Matthew Charron regarding name changes and ID docs, as well as holiday card-decorating for Black and Pink.

About…

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BLAA Painting Workshop for the Annual Medicine Wheel/World AIDS Day

BLAA Painting Workshop for the Annual Medicine Wheel/World AIDS Day

                      On Saturday November 19th, BLAA artists gathered in the studio of Dylan Hurwitz to paint panels for the 25th Annual Medicine Wheel/World AIDS Day event at the Cyclorama. The event is an annual AIDS Day arts vigil that includes hourly performances, art installations and more. The panels we painted are part of a collaborative mural: panels were distributed to dozens of…

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Call for BLAA's Fall 2016 Exhibition

Call for BLAA’s Fall 2016 Exhibition

Tentative title: TRANS/DRAW

There is a resonant overlap between the introspective nature of drawing and the trans experience. In contemporary art, drawing is celebrated for its experimental gestures of liberation from traditional forms of picture making. It is highly attuned to sensitivity and feeling, free to represent experience in individuated ways, liberatory for the non-conforming individual.

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You Think It’s _____, But It’s Really ______ Catalog Essay by Maia Dolphin-Krute

You Think It’s _____, But It’s Really ______ Catalog Essay by Maia Dolphin-Krute

You Think It’s _____, But It’s Really ______ Catalog Essay by Maia Dolphin-Krute, Editor at Big Red and Shiny

Carl Bowlby

I expected to write about the artworks themselves. How certain objects stood out immediately, like Ty Muto’s tubing and IV bags. Or how the dioxazine purple of Carl Bowlby’s painting is as much a color as a potential pharmaceutical name. The trajectory of reflections like…

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BLAA’s Orlando Solidarity Gathering This past week, on June 22nd, BLAA hosting an Orlando Solidarity Gathering in BLAA Committee member Tom Maio's backyard in Jamaica Plain.

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BLAA and the BCA's "Queer Threads"

BLAA and the BCA’s “Queer Threads”

  This spring, the Boston LGBTQIA Artist Alliance is collaborating with the Boston Center for the Arts (BCA) and its current exhibition at the Mills Gallery, Queer Threads, on public programs- with a workshop and a performance series.

Queer Threads is curated by John Chaich and features 26 artists from four continents who remix fiber and textile craft traditions and materials to explore…

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Submit to BLAA’s Summer 2016 Exhibition BLAA’s tenth show is an exhibition of work by artists living and creating at the intersection of LGBTQIA issues and culturally defined notions of “disability”.

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Post-Gay? Reception!

The opening reception for our show ‘Post-Gay?’ at Distillery Gallery was a huge success thanks to all of our members and supporters! Thanks to our member Alex Mancini Photography, we were able to capture the reception on camera! Check out some of the reception photos on our Facebook and below, and check out our previous post for some close-ups of the art just after the install!

We also want to…

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Post-Gay? Exhibition at Distillery Gallery

Post-Gay? Exhibition at Distillery Gallery

The Boston LGBTQIA Artist Alliance show ‘Post-Gay?’ is now on view at Distillery Gallery during gallery hours through April 16, with an Artist Panel Discussion + Performance by DEAD ART STARon Saturday, April 9 from 4-6pm. A huge thank you to Pat Falco of Distillery Gallery for not only being one of our great judges, but for also hanging the work! Check out some photos of the show, taken by our…