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Pride Month: Queer Quintessential

We invite LGBTQIA+ lens-based artists to explore queer life, identity, and forms of community.

The arts have long provided space for self-expression and for exploring identity in ways that may not be possible in other contexts. For many queer artists, image-making has also been a way to share lived experience, challenge social norms, and connect with others.

We welcome work that engages with self-representation, chosen family, intimacy, and the relationship between public and private space. Submissions may consider visibility and absence, safety and risk, or the different conditions that shape how queer identities are expressed across cultural and geographic contexts.

Selected works will be presented in an online exhibition on Der Greif’s homepage for one month.

Pride 2025 (International Online Artsy Exhibition)

Pride 2025 (International Online Artsy Exhibition)
Online Artsy Exhibition: June 1st - July 31,  2025

Deadline Extended through April 19

Gallery B612 seeks to lift up and recognize LGBTQIA+ artists in this exhibition celebrating Pride Month.

We would love to include artworks that depict families, personal stories of hope and resilience, and depictions of personal experiences (either abstract or representational) of LGBTQIA+  artists.

We especially encourage artists with intersectional identities to apply.

Queer Conscience 2025 Photography Exhibition

The Image Flow invites photographic artists closely tied to the LGBTQIA2+ community to submit work to our 3rd Annual juried photography exhibition Queer Conscience 2025.

We probably don’t need to inform you that queer rights are under attack unlike ever before. Abuses of power – ranging from executive orders that strictly define federally recognized gender identities to state resolutions seeking to overturn marriage equality – find our political leaders fomenting fascist ideologies in order to divide the working class and create a scapegoat for our queer neighbors.

Queer Women’s Artist Lab: New Orleans

Kolaj Institute and Kasini House’s Art Meets History project are organizing a Queer Women’s Artist Lab: New Orleans, 18-22 November 2024.

Early Deadline to Apply: Thursday, 26 September 2024
Final Deadline to Apply: Thursday, 10 October 2024
Submissions will be reviewed on a rolling basis until space is filled. Artists are encouraged to apply well before the deadline.

Queer Men Artist Lab: New Orleans 2024

Kolaj Institute and Kasini House’s Art Meets History project are organizing a Queer Men Artist Lab: New Orleans, 27-30 August 2024.

Deadline to Apply: Sunday, 28 July 2024

The goal of the Queer Men Artist Lab: New Orleans is to equip artists with tools and strategies for picking up the unfinished work of history and speak to contemporary civic discourse around social, economic, and environmental issues. Through interactive sessions in the Lab and panel discussions, artists will explore their process and practice; present a slideshow of their work; receive supportive, critical, curatorial feedback about their ideas; and discuss contemporary issues. 

Queer Conscience 2024 - 2nd Annual Juried LGBTQ+ Photography Exhibition

Juried by: Steffan Schlarb (Director of Schlomer Haus Gallery), Nathan Lomas, and The Image Flow Staff

The Image Flow invites photographic artists closely tied to the LGBTQIA2+ community to submit work to our 2nd Annual juried photography exhibition Queer Conscience 2024.

It is a precarious time to be a queer person today, as many forces conspire to limit the ways in which we live and express our very identities. Despite the seemingly relentless waves of legislation targeting queer and especially transgender individuals in the U.S. and beyond, the world seems to be growing ever more queer. New studies show that nearly 30% of Gen Z adults identify as LGBTQIA2+.  

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