LOCATION
GLBT Historical Society Museum
4127 18th Street
San Francisco, CA 94114
ADMISSION
$20 (includes materials fee); Free for GLBT Historical Society Members*
Inspired by Where We Made Room, this workshop sends you out into the Castro for a walking and blind contour drawing session, capturing the buildings and streets that have held queer life for generations. Back at the museum, we'll trace those sketches onto transparency paper to create negatives, then head outside again to turn them into cyanotype prints using sun print paper—letting the sun fix your drawings into deep Prussian blue.
Just as Landeta's silks layer archival exteriors with imagined interiors to blur document and dream, your prints will hold both what's actually there on the block and the loose, intuitive line your hand found along the way.
No drawing experience necessary, all materials provided. Wear shoes ready for a walk.
*Due to the materials cost for this event, GLBT Historical Society Members are limited for one (1) free ticket to this program.
INSTRUCTOR
Photo: Jasmine Singh Rosado
Aleo Landeta (they/them) is is a trans and Latine visual artist and educator based in Oakland whose practice spans drawing, painting, installation, and public programming. Their work centers queer joy as liberation, drawing from lived experience and the communities that have held space for them to live authentically. They have been exhibited at MACLA, Bedford Gallery, Berkeley Art Center, and Jonathan Carver Moore, among others, with work held in the permanent collection of the Bakersfield Museum of Art. Recent support includes the SoEx Alternative Exposure Grant (2025), the King Artist Residency (2024), and the Homebody Fellowship at Ma's House & BIPOC Art Studio (2022). Learn More.
Members Perks
Interested in becoming a member of the GLBT Historical Society? Members enjoy all sorts of perks, including free access to this event. Learn more.