QUEER|ART|PRIDE is an annual summer showcase of new and recently completed work by Alumni of Queer|Art|Mentorship. Queer|Art has partnered with Abrons Arts Center in New York City to present the third annual edition of Queer|Art|Pride. More than 40 artists will participate in a 10-day extravaganza of public and community programs that include screenings, readings, performances, artist workshops, studio residencies, and more.

The centerpiece of Queer|Art|Pride 2019 is the first-ever Queer|Art|Pride Book & Print Fair, taking place throughout the day on Saturday, June 8th, with work available for sale by 30+ participating artists, including Justin Vivian Bond, Dynasty Handbag, Pamela Sneed, Angela Dufresne, Carlos Motta, Geoff Chadsey, Liz Collins, Morgan Bassichis, and Camilo Godoy. Other featured artists participating in Queer|Art|Pride this year include painter Marco DaSilva, whose solo exhibition and newly commissioned mural project Em Casa: Brazilian Cutlery kicks things off on Monday, June 3rd, and Rodrigo Bellott, who will share a special preview screening of Blood-Red Ox, a new queer horror film, on June 5th. Additional events specifically for LGBTQ+ artists run throughout, including a community town hall and a full day of workshops accessible to all interested applicants for the 2019-2020 Queer|Art|Mentorship cycle (applications open May 12). All events will take place at Abrons Arts Center in the Lower East Side (466 Grand at Pitt Street).CASA: BRAZILIAN CUTLERY Monday, June 3rd • 8:30pm Opening Reception Solo exhibition by Marco DaSilva (on view through June 13) FREE, Open to the Public Marco DaSilva’sEm Casa: Brazilian Cutlery is an exploration of Brazilian spirituality and cultural identity through color palettes, textures, and shapes inspired by DaSilva’s pilgrimage to Rio de Janeiro in the summer of 2018. As a gringo-Brasilero from New York, DaSilva’s exhibition, which includes a new mural commission that will serve as the backdrop for Queer|Art|Pride, captures his experience living in the tropical city for the first time on his own. DaSilva’s paintings often render details of his everyday experiences into bold, colorful symbols that take on mythological proportions. The paintings in Em Casa: Brazilian Cutlery draw on a spiritual reading he received during his visit to Rio de Janeiro and reference places and objects with which he interacted and found significance. Marco DaSilva is a native New Yorker whose symbol-based paintings explore hybridity through the intersections of his Brazilian-American, queer identity and manic experience. His graphic style of painting uses bright neon colors to evoke a tropical mood of vice and opulence. He creates his own mythology in the process, providing a richly saturated landscape of his own world to the viewer. He has exhibited work at Heath Gallery, The LGBT Community Center, and a solo exhibition at The Bureau of General Services-Queer Division. Most recently, his work was seen in the group show BLOOM SERVICE at Galeria del Barrio and his paintings will be featured on the upcoming second season of “The Last OG.” He was a NYFA Artist as Entrepreneur Fellow and a Visual Art Fellow for Queer|Art|Mentorship’s 2017-2018 cycle with mentor Liz Collins.

BLOOD-RED OX

Wednesday, June 5 • 7:00 pm work-in-progress screening of queer horror film by Rodrigo Bellott $12 Suggested Donation, RSVP Required Queer|Art|Pride dives into darkness with this special work-in-progress screening of director Rodrigo Bellott’s new queer horror film Blood-Red Ox. In Bellott’s second feature film, Amir, a Lebanese-American journalist and his boyfriend Amat are on assignment in Bolivia to report on imminent environmental threats to the rainforest, but their visit quickly takes a bizarre turn as Amat begins having visions of a nightmarish creature that is half-man, half-ox. Amir must save his boyfriend before these visions consume him, but he will quickly realize nothing and nobody is to be trusted—not even himself. Rodrigo Bellott is a Bolivian filmmaker, playwright, and producer—and a 2015-2016 Queer|Art|Mentorship alum. His breakout hit Sexual Dependency marked the rebirth of Bolivian cinema as the country’s first official submission for “Best Foreign Language Film” at the 2004 Academy Awards. Bellott’s Who Killed the White Llama? was the most successful box-office hit in Bolivia’s history, leading to Variety magazine naming him one of the Top Ten Latin American talents to watch in 2007. At Queer|Art|Mentorship, Bellott worked with Mentor, filmmaker Silas Howard on the film adaptation of his play Tu Me Manques, which is now in post-production and stars Oscar Martinez and Rossy De Palma. Bellott is currently adapting Tu Me Manques for Broadway and is developing a new project at the New Museum. Please note: This is a work-in-progress screening. The film is not yet open for review. QUEER|ART|PRIDE: BOOK & PRINT FAIR Saturday, June 8th • 1:00 - 6:00 pm FREE, Open to the Public, RSVP Recommended The centerpiece of Queer|Art|Pride 2019 is the first-everQueer|Art|Pride Book & Print Fair, taking place throughout the day on Saturday, June 8th, with work available for sale by 30+ participating LGBTQ+ artists from the Queer|Art|Mentorship program. Curated in the spirit of abundance, the Queer|Art|Pride Book & Print Fair will include hundreds of works for perusal and purchase, with an eclectic range of artist books, novels, zines, poetry chapbooks, drawings, photographs, watercolors, collages, prints, and other limited edition artworks spilling out from Abrons’ main gallery and into the outdoor amphitheater. Many artists will be present to discuss their work, sell it, and autograph it, too, while live performances and readings throughout the day provide additional opportunities to hear the work out loud. A cool and celebratory vibe will carry the day with alternating DJ sets by Zenobia, known for her exclusive focus on music by femmes of color, and Precolumbian, whose Philadelphia-based parties center trans people of color. Food and drinks will fill out the festivities in true block-party style! Participating artists include: Seyi Adebanjo, Eames Armstrong, Morgan Bassichis, Justin Vivian Bond, Ella Boureau, Nancy Brooks Brody, Jibz Cameron (AKA Dynasty Handbag), Anna Campbell, Candystore, Geoff Chadsey, Sarah Creagen, Liz Collins, Marco DaSilva, Mashuq Mushtaq Deen, Angela Dufresne, Avram Finkelstein, Federica Gianni, Camilo Godoy, Neil Goldberg, Nicole Goodwin, Cristóbal Guerra, Heather Lynn Johnson, Jarrett Key, Mylo Mendez, Rodrigo Moreira, Carlos Motta, Russell Perkins, Tommy Pico, Christina Quintana, Hugh Ryan, Pamela Sneed, Natalie Tsui, Zoe Schlacter, Ripley Soprano, and Brendan Williams-Child.

QUEER|ART|PRIDE: MEET THE MENTORS

Sunday, June 9th at 2pm Q&A Information Session RSVP required: [email protected] (SUBJECT: Meet the Mentors) Queer|Art|Pride recently announced the new Mentors for the 2019-2020 program cycle of Queer|Art|Mentorship. Applications are open May 12-July 18. Prospective applicants are encouraged to RSVP for a Q&A Session with Queer|Art Staff, Mentors, and Fellows, at Abrons Arts Center on Sunday, June 9th at 2pm. Capacity is limited, RSVP is required: [email protected] (SUBJECT: Meet the Mentors). The Mentors selected for the 2019-2020 program cycle represent a diverse and vibrant group of esteemed artists and curators whose work has made a tremendous impact across multiple sectors of the art world. The 2019–2020 Mentors are: Rodrigo Bellott (Film), Hao Wu (Film), Kate Bornstein (Literature), Gayatri Gopinath (Literature), Charles Rice-González (Literature), Maria Bauman-Morales (Performance), Mashuq Mushtaq Deen (Performance), Lola Flash (Visual Art), Yve Laris Cohen (Visual Art), and Thomas Lax (Curatorial Practice).