QUEER|ART Presents 4th Annual Digital Book & Print Fair

Queer|Art, NYC’s hub for connecting and empowering generations of LGBTQ+ artists, is pleased to share the initial details for The 2022 Queer|Art|Pride Digital Book & Print Fair—the 4th annual edition of the summer festival celebrating work by the organization’s vibrant community of more than 200 LGBTQ+ artists. 

The Fair will be open for business online at www.queer-art.org/fair from June 1–July 31. This year, the organization will host 50+ participating artists from their extensive artist network. The online marketplace will feature an abundance of works for perusal and purchase, including (but not limited to) artist books, novels, zines, poetry chapbooks, drawings, photographs, watercolors, garments, collages, and prints. 100% of the proceeds from the Fair directly benefit participating artists. 

Naima Green (a featured photographer in Celebrity Cruises’ All-Inclusive Photo Project) will be selling Pur·suit, a deck of playing cards featuring images of queer womxn, trans, non-binary, and gender-nonconforming people, inspired by Catherine Opie’s Dyke Deck. At 2018-2019 QAM (Queer Art Mentorship) Fellow Russell Perkins’ table, you can purchase his book, The Future Tense, a publication centering collective grief that was named “One of the Most Beautiful Swiss Books of 2022” by the cultural ministry of Switzerland. Over in the zine section, Fair favorite and 2015-2016 QAM Fellow Brendan Williams-Childs is selling a sensational series of zines about everything from queer revenge fantasies, to Star Trek fanfiction, to Sappho’s writing. Visual media mavens will enjoy the whimsically mischievous drawings of 2014-2015 QAM Mentor Jibz Cameron, the erotically biomorphic sculptures of Erica Wessmann, and the bold photographs of Eva Woolridge that explore the spiritual nature of femininity across the gender spectrum. All this and so much more will be up for grabs at this unique digital event.

The online marketplace will also be accompanied by two live Queer|Art|Pride Digital Book & Print Fair SHOW ‘N’ TELL events, taking place over Zoom. Artists participating in the digital marketplace will perform readings of excerpted works, offer a show-and-tell of works for sale, and more. The Show ‘N’ Tells will take place on Tuesday, June 14th and Tuesday, July 19th from 6-7:30 PM EST. More details coming soon.

To visit the Digital Book & Print Fair, head to https://www.queer-art.org/fair.