In this workshop we'll be looking at how queer artists have used portraiture as a vehicle for exploration and expression. Following this, we’ll be making our own expressive mixed media portraits. No experience necessary, all materials provided.

Queer Makers is a space for queer and ally artists to come together, learn, discuss, and create! In this series of workshops, join student teaching artist Kieran Becker for a fun presentation on artists-- historical and contemporary-- who have used art to express their queer identity or highlight queer issues, followed by group discussion and responsive artmaking activity. Each session will focus on a new topic and new prompt for artmaking.

Kieran Becker is an intern at Fleisher Art Memorial and a college student in his final semester studying art education at Temple University. This workshop serves the purpose of fulfilling his final student teaching requirements. As such, students are signing up for a workshop that is experimental in nature, but nonetheless held to the same standard as all of Fleisher’s programming. Students will also have the optional opportunity to submit their work or have it photographed for the Art of Student Teaching exhibition, the senior thesis exhibition for Temple art education majors, showing at Tyler School of Art and Architecture from April 23-27th.