Free. Reservations required.
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n us for a conversation with acclaimed photographer and activist Lola Fla
sh\, whose work has challenged preconceptions about gender\, sexuality\,
race\, and age for nearly five decades. A current member of the Kamoinge
Collective and a recent Pollock-Krasner Foundation grant recipient\, Flas
h will speak about their joyful and defiant career\, from their culturall
y pointed inverted color work in the 1980s to a recent LGBTQIA+ history p
roject in collaboration with The Museum of Modern Art in New York City.\n
This event celebrates the recent addition of Flash’s work to the C incinnati Art Museum’s collection.
\n\nFollowing the main program in CAM’s Fath Audit orium\, please join us for a reception in the Marek-Weaver Family Commons .
\nThis event is generously supported by The Rainbow Fund and by ArtsWave Pride.
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The Cincinnati Art Museum’s recent acquisition of artwor ks by Lola Flash was made possible through the generosity of Bruce M. Hal pryn and Chas Riebe.
\nThis program will be interpreted in American Sign Language by Ghostlight Stage Company.
\nFor more than 40 years\, photographer Lola Fl ash’s art and activism have been deeply intertwined\, fueling a lifelong commitment to visibility and preserving the legacy of LGBTQIA+ and POC co mmunities worldwide. A longtime figure in New York City’s downtown art sc ene and an active member of ACT UP during the AIDS epidemic in New York C ity\, Flash was notably featured in Gran Fury’s “Kissing Doesn’t Kill” po ster. This now-iconic art action pierced public indifference to the AIDS crisis using the visual language of Benetton advertising. Flash’s own wor k has consistently challenged preconceptions around gender\, sexuality\, race\, and age\, ranging from early Cross-Color images that port ray the intersections of personal life and activism in the 1980s and 1990 s\, to more recent work that uses portraiture to create positive represen tations of marginalized or overlooked individuals and communities. Flash holds degrees from the Maryland Institute College of Art and the London C ollege of Printing. Their work is represented in the permanent collection s of institutions including The Museum of Modern Art\, the Whitney Museum of American Art\, the Brooklyn Museum\, the National Museum of African A merican History and Culture\, the George Eastman Museum\, and the Victori a and Albert Museum. They have received residencies\, grants\, and other awards from organizations including Light Works\, Art Matters\, Alice Yar d\, the Royal Photographic Society\, Anonymous Was A Woman\, and the Poll ock-Krasner Foundation. \; A retired K-12 educator\, they are a membe r of the Kamoinge Collective and current Board President of Queer | Art.< /p>\n
If you need \;accessibility accommodations\, please contact us in advance at \;access@cincyart.org \;or fill out \;the accessibility request fo rm.
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