Tell It Like It Is
QUEER SPECTRA ARTS FESTIVAL 2022
MAY 21, 2022 • 12PM-9PM • SUNSET STUDIOS
May 22-29 • ONLINE
Thank you to our festival artists, presenters, and attendees for making the 2022 festival a delightful success!
TELL IT LIKE IT IS
“The function of art is to do more than tell it like it is - it’s to imagine what is possible”
- bell hooks
“In this world, there is a kind of painful progress. Longing for what we've left behind, and dreaming ahead.”
- Tony Kushner, Angels in America
As the art world dives into another year of the pandemic, we as artists and audiences are at a crossroads, ready to strip off the inauthentic and become vulnerable as we encounter feelings of isolation. Art makes space for dreams, whimsy, imagination, desire, and change. Art teaches us to be hopeful while calling on us to examine pain and what we’ve left behind. The 2022 Queer Spectra Arts Festival is interested in exploring the following questions:
What truths does queer art tell?
How can art expose our authentic selves and experiences?
What possibilities does queer art imagine?
What can queer art help us find space for rest? How can queer art help us find space for exuberance?
What does queer art teach us about hope?
How does queer art break us out of isolation?
What does queer art tell us about our desires?
How does the act of “telling” with your art change it?
2022 FESTIVAL ARTISTS
This year, Queer Spectra Artists are participating from all over the world! Learn more about each artist on our Festival Artist page.
COVID-19 PRECAUTIONS:
Masks will be required at the 2022 Festival. Queer Spectra may also limit the number of attendees in the space to facilitate social distancing. For more information about COVID-19 and accessibility, please visit our Accessibility & Accommodations request page.
THANK YOU!
Queer Spectra is made possible by generous support from the following donors, volunteers, and grantors:
Jane Appleby • Lorna Granger • Edith Hammond • Kate Barnewitz • Gillian Wong • Becky Pickle • Mark Albrecht • Abbey Muse • John Veranth • Nathan Cretty • William Barnewitz • Rebecca Baker • Laura Gray • B. Rodney White • Sue Rice • Cecilia Norris • Timothy Corden • Emily Albrecht
