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Getting Graphic: A Lecture and Workshop on the History of Graphic Design in Queer Activism

Institute for Multimedia Literacy
746 West Adams Boulevard, Los Angeles

ONE National Gay & Lesbian Archives
909 West Adams Boulevard

Admission is free.

Event Schedule and Locations:

11 a.m.: Lecture by Nate Schulman, Institute for Multimedia Literacy
12 p.m.: Lunch, ONE Archives
1:30 p.m.: Workshop with Nate Schulman

A series of events will be presented in conjunction with the exhibition Cruising the Archive: Queer Art and Culture in Los Angeles, 1945–1980 at the ONE National Gay & Lesbian Archives. The events will foster discussions about LGBT histories, queer art and aesthetics and archival practices in contemporary art.

The Getting Graphic event will feature writer and designer Nate Schulman. He will present a lecture on graphic-design strategies in queer activism followed by a hands-on workshop inspired by archival materials at the ONE National Gay & Lesbian Archives. The workshop will focus on design strategies utilized by early queer activists in the post–World War II era, a period of queer activism often overshadowed by AIDS activism in the 1980s and 1990s. Schulman’s lecture, along with a brief introduction by an archivist from the ONE Archives, will expose students to rare archival materials and historical approaches for raising consciousness.

For more information about Cruising the Archive, go to www.onearchives.org

Organized by Joseph Hawkins, Mia Locks, David Frantz and the ONE National Gay & Lesbian Archives. Co-sponsored by the Institute for Multimedia Literacy and the Getty’s Pacific Standard Time initiative.

For further information on this event:
visionsandvoices@usc.edu

Location: Institute for Multimedia Literacy and ONE National Gay & Lesbian Archives

Audiences: Everyone Is Invited

Contact: Daria Yudacufski