Nobody Promised You Tomorrow: Art 50 Years After Stonewall [05/03/2019-12/08/2019], 2016-2019
Scope and Contents
Includes curatorial and community agreements between all of the co-curators, checklists, themes and planning documents, label and didactic text, Carmen Hermo's curatorial notebook for the exhibit, early research on Stonewall and artists for the exhibit, the development of the gender neutral bathroom policy, a copy of the AAM and LGBTQ Alliance Welcome Guidelines for Museums, the Resource Room / Our House library Guide and community resources, collected materials from Sylvia Rivera Law Project, ephemera, programming, feedback, press, and the tour of the exhibit.
Box 3 Folder 12 and Box 4 Folder 1-6 were created by the curatorial assistant A.L. Rickard and kept by Carmen Hermo.
Box 4 Folder 11 contains a zine. My Altered Body by Elektra KB, circa 2018. Box 4 Folder 11 also contains other collected material from artists and exhibits like Tag: Proposals on Queer Play and the Ways Forward from the Institute of Contemporary Art at the University of Pennsylvania; "The Floating World" by Emma Sulkowicz which was an exhibit at The Glass House, Thomas Lanigan-Schmidt's 1989 "1969 Mother Stonewall and the Golden Rats", Danspace Project; Noo reality - a gayme by Nica Ross; The Leslie Lohman Museum publication on the anniversary of Stonewall, The Kitchen, etc.
Box 5 folder 5 contains a zine "How Many of us will be Thriving for Stonewall 100?" which was designed by Dani Ochoa B.
Box 117 contains a pride flag that was flown on the Brooklyn Museum flag pole during June 2019. The flag is Phil America's Colors of Progress flag, and Levi Narine (Brooklyn Museum Teen Programs Assistant) wrote the words "Make Room For Our POC Youth Elders and Disabled" onto the flag. Narine also organized the Resource Room in the exhibit.
Box 117 also contains a report for graphic design directions.
Box 117 also contains collected material: 4 copies of "What is 21st Century Libreration" created by Visual AIDS. According to their website: "For the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall uprising, Visual AIDS asked an intergenerational group of artists and activists—ALOK, Jason Collins, Winter Collins, Timothy DuWhite, Lola Flash, Tenzin Gund-Morrow, Elle Hearns, Corey Johnson, Bill T. Jones, Elizabeth Koke, and Chris Vargas—to answer the question: What Is 21st Century Liberation?" https://visualaids.org/projects/what-is-21st-century-liberation. There is also 1 copy of an oversized newsprint publication titled "Sultana's Dream" which was produced by The Kitchen.
Map Drawer 22 contains oversized collected material including a newspring publication called Queer Body - Queer Nation which was published by anonymous queers circa 2016 (as it references Trump being elected); a newsprint poster from the Museum of Transgender Hirstory and Art that depicts cut up newspaper headlines about transgender people historically, and a National Parks Service publication titled Consciousness Razing: The Stonewall Re-Memorialization Project.
Dates
- 2016-2019
Creator
- Hermo, Carmen (Person)
- Rickard, A.L. (Person)
Biographical / Historical
"Nobody Promised You Tomorrow: Art 50 Years After Stonewall is curated by Margo Cohen Ristorucci, Public Programs Coordinator; Lindsay C. Harris, Teen Programs Manager, Education; Carmen Hermo, Associate Curator, Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art; Allie Rickard, Curatorial Assistant, Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art; and Lauren Argentina Zelaya, Acting Director, Public Programs, Brooklyn Museum. Its Resource Room is organized by Levi Narine, Teen Programs Assistant, InterseXtions and Special Projects, in collaboration with the curators."
Text from: https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/exhibitions/stonewall
Extent
29 folder/s
Language of Materials
English
Spanish
Repository Details
Part of the Brooklyn Museum Archives Repository