In response to the church’s recent call to censor the groundbreaking exhibition Hide/Seek: Difference and Desire in American Portraiture at the Brooklyn Museum, the Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art hosted Uncensored: Queer Art and the Church, a week-long exhibition to which anyone could submit artwork and all submitted artwork was shown.
Uncensored: Queer Art and the Church is an activist riposte to the shameful history of censorship against LGBTQ art and artists by both the Catholic Church and Fundamentalist Protestant Churches. The Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art firmly believes that all art should be seen and displayed without regard to content; therefore in order to display every artwork submitted, this exhibition was not be curated, edited, interpreted or censored.
SUBMISSION PROCESS
Submissions are now closed.
Submissions were accepted online only and printed full-frame (not cropped) on regular 8.5×11″ printer paper. No original artwork, 3D objects or video were accepted, and every submission was printed and exhibited. The exhibition did not include wall labels. It was left to the artists discretion whether to include wall label information (artist name, title, date, dimensions, medium) in their submission file.
EXHIBITION DATES
March 27-April 1; 12-6PM
Opening Reception: March 27, 6-8PM