Join the Lehman College Art Gallery at an opening for the exhibition that will be on view at the Lehman College Art Gallery from Valentine's day through April 28.

Queer Love: Affection and Romance in Contemporary Art presents paintings and photographs that illuminate both individual and universal stories of vulnerability, tenderness, and desire in the LGBTQIA community.

The exhibition, which gathers the work of almost 50 artists, opens in two New York City galleries in February 2023−Lehman College Art Gallery in the Bronx from February 14 to April 23 and La MaMa Galleria in Downtown Manhattan, from February 18 to April 6. Each venue offers works that explore the power and significance of intimate queer familial, romantic, and sexual relationships.

From cheerful, romantic expressions of love to depictions of non-traditional nuclear families, the artwork of these LGBTQIA artists highlights the bond between them as art creators, and those with whom they have the closest ties. The LGBTQIA artists often move from celebrating their love to proclaiming a place for queer people within a larger society. Lushly beautiful, their art creates a series of nuanced and reflective, but largely positive narratives, and love’s transformative impact on both the human experience and the artistic process.

Winter Schedule

Mon – Thurs: 8am – 8pm

Fri & Sat: 9am – 5pm

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- Kirkus

Sanders’ first book in a children’s book series, I Can Write the World, features Ava Murray, a Black girl journalist from the Bronx.  After Ava and her mother watch the news together, her mother explains, Sometimes the way the world sees us / Is different from how we see ourselves.

The next book in the series, A Place of Our Own, is scheduled for publication in 2021.

 Joshunda Sanders is an author, journalist, and educator.  She is creator and host of a BookTube channel, Black Book Stacks.  Sanders is the Communications Specialist in the President’s Office at Lehman College.