LOCATION
GLBT Historical Society Museum
4127 18th Street
San Francisco, CA 94114
ADMISSION
$10 admission; Free for GLBT Historical Society Members
Join us for an evening of conversation and reflection with artist Éamon McGivern, whose exhibition A/History, currently on view at The Museum, explores trans identity through archival materials, personal memory, and painterly interpretation.
McGivern will be joined by a panel of fellow trans artists and friends for a dynamic discussion on the influences, inspirations, and legacies that shape their work.
Together, these panelists will explore how “transcestors”—trans and gender-expansive figures from history—inform contemporary identity and creative expression. The conversation will highlight intergenerational connections, the process of developing the self with or without precedent, and the ways trans artists draw on the past to envision more expansive futures.
SPEAKERS
Éamon McGivern is an artist from San Francisco who has spent the past seven years in the Bay Area painting portraits of queers, punks and poets. More recently, he has been delving into the archives of 20th century LGBTQ history, picking up strands from holes in the historical narratives in attempts to darn the tears between the past and present wrought by political oppression, transphobia and the HIV/AIDS epidemic. His work feels into the sorrow born from the absence of the queer and trans people who would have been the teachers, mentors, parents and grandparents of his generation and the effect their deaths have on contemporary life.
Éamon holds a BFA with honors in Painting from the Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY and an MA in Fine Arts from the Chelsea College, London, U.K. He are a two time recipient of the San Francisco Arts Commission’s Individual Artists Grant, a former artist in residence at Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, Residency 11:11 in London, U.K.
Sloane Holzer (she/her) is a writer and artist living on occupied Huichin Ohlone territory, also called Oakland, California. Focusing on the ways in which desire and technology produce selfhood, her written and creative work has previously been published in BOMB, the Los Angeles Review of Books, Baest Journal, and them. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing and an MA in Visual & Critical Studies from the California College of the Arts. You can find links to some of her published work on her website, or you can connect with her on Instagram, Tiktok, or Substack at @s7oane.
JoJo (they/he) is an aspiring community-centered artist and culture bearer born on Raymaytush-Ohlone land (San Francisco) and raised by the Muni lines of the Excelsior District. Their work is inspired by their ancestors, Queer and Trans elders, and Bay Area culture. Currently, JoJo is interning with Queer Ancestors Project, a linocut printmaking workshop program that supports young queer and trans artists to explore their history and create art as a revolutionary tool for liberation. They are also a teaching artist mentor for Asian Refugees United’s Queer Youth Art Storytellers program for Asian and Pacific Islander high school students in Oakland. JoJo supports youth in diving deeper into individual and collective artistic expressions and art as healing and advocacy.
Sasha Fuentes is a trans latinx archivist printmaker and the owner of diy archive, Second Life. Second Life Archive focuses on trans, queer and sex worker poc publications from the 70s to early 2000s. Sasha uses printmaking as a way to share and reference queer history. Pulling directly from his personal archive and research collaging existing logos and graphics. Driven by the provocative piquing interest.
Members Perks
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