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An introductory project exhibition was presented by the Brooklyn Academy of Music from February to June 2024 in the BAM Harvey Theatre Rudin Family Gallery, titled
LGBTQ+ NYC Artists Archive Project - 1st Draft
This exhibition recognized LGBTQ+ downtown NYC artists who continue to flourish while having had an indelible impact on New York City’s culture over the past 50+ years. Five Lesbian Brothers (5-member collective Moe Angelos, Babs Davy, Dominique Dibbell, Peg Healey, Lisa Kron), Ain Gordon, Ishmael Houston- Jones, John Kelly, Richard Move, Lola Pashalinski, and Carmelita Tropicana, form this introductory look at a generation that blossomed during a period that could be regarded as the last gasp of physical bohemia–a rich and highly influential era–whichlater coincided with the AIDS pandemic devastating the generation’s collective voices.
EVENTS
JUNE 5, 2025: THE IMPACT OF DIGITAL TECHNOLOGY AND CREATING PUBLIC ACCESS FOR ARCHIVES - A roundtable collaborative event between the LGBTQ+ Artists Archive Project, The Feminist Institute (TFI), and the American LGBTQ+ Museum (ALM). At the PUPC Soho Studio
May 17 &18, 2025: Work-in-progress performances of “THIS USED TO BE GAY”. History nerd Moe Angelos’ "sitting tour" of former queer sites in zip code 10012, the East and West Villages, etc. where there was a whole lot of gay in the past, a scroll down memory lane. Written & performed by Moe Angeles at the PUPC SoHo Studio
April 2025: Launch of LOLA PASHALINSKI on the Performing Arts Legacy website of the Entertainment Community Fund (formerly the Actors Fund) https://performingartslegacy.org/pashalinski/
March 24, 2025: Segal Center Event on NYC Theatre Archive. Panel includes Project Co-directors Linda S. Chapman & Alyce Dissette
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ps6UjxftVR0
February - June, 2024: Exhibition BAM Harvey Theatre, Rudin Family Gallery
The LGBTQ+ Artists Archive Project – 1st draft
Mar 30, 2024: LA MAMA ETC Coffeehouse Chronicles: #174: Lola Pashalinski
November 16, 2023: Dramatist Guild Event,
Breaking Boundaries The Enduring Legacy of the Five Lesbian Brothers
More about the project
The LGBTQ+ NYC Artists Archive Project, facilitated/ managed by the Pick Up Performance Co. and project Co-directors/producers Linda S. Chapman and Alyce Dissette, is a response to the challenges of preservation that have plagued avant-garde artists. Too often, the caretaking of these legacies is left, by default, to logistically and economically ill-equipped friends and family with devastating results, erasing vital contributions.
The process and methods of these pilot projects for queer elders will be shared with the field to be examples for all artists considering how to preserve and make publicly accessible their legacies. We will continue to have public events to build a network of community-sharing methodologies for living artist-driven archiving in the 21st century.
We are fortunate to have a group of Advisors that are working to realize this complex and ambitious project.
Thank you to:
Project collaborators: Youth Arts New York - Sandra Parker Archival Fellowship
BAM for the introductory exhibit Feb – June 2024.
And start-up funding from
Distracted Globe Foundation
Sara Coffey & David Snyder
Wendy vanden Heuvel
Doug Wright and David Clement
For more information:
Co-directors
Linda Chapman lindanyn@pupcs.org
Alyce Dissette alyce@pupcs.org
and
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