The Boston LGBTQIA+ Artist Alliance, a volunteer artist-run organization, is displaying works by local queer artists at the Distillery Gallery in South Boston until late July.
The showcase, titled âsome assembly required,â opened to the public earlier this month, and features pieces of various mediums by 30 queer artists from the Greater Boston area.
Ena KantardžiÄ, one of the showâs curators, said the collection was organized following an open call for art submissions last year, as part of a larger effort to ârevitalizeâ BLAA.
âItâs been in the works for a while,â KantardžiÄ said. âBLAA is an organization that was kind of quiet after 2019, and it felt like such a loss to the community, so a small-ish group of us came together and tried to breathe life into it.â
The Boston LGBTQIA+ Artist Alliance brings together 34 works from 30 emerging and established queer artists from the region working in a broad range of disciplines to create a bold and intimate invitation back into meatspace.
For this artist, the local supermarket is stocked with dating metaphors
By Grace Griffin Globe Correspondent,Updated December 15, 2020, 1:56 p.m.
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Brooke Stewart s woodcut relief print was inspired by her Market Basket deli counter.Kristen Powell (Custom credit)
As Brooke Stewart stood in line recently at the Market Basket deli, her mind drifted to those days before the pandemic, when she used to wait in line to get into nightclubs. The 26-year-old artist noted the similarity between queuing up to select meat and lining up along the sidewalk with other singles who hoped to find a partner.