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.

Lehman College proudly presents world-renowned poet and activist Nikki Giovanni. In advance of the College’s opening of James Baldwin’s “The Amen Corner,” she will speak about Baldwin and beyond and share her newest poetry.

Leonard Lief Library
English
invite you to:

One Headlight
by Matt Caprioli

An affecting and surprising remembrance about the responsibilities of parents and children — Kirkus

In his debut memoir - Matt Caprioli tells the story of a devoted single mother raising her would-be pastor son around Lazy Mountain, Alaska, in a church-donated Mustang with no snow tires, a missing passenger window, and one headlight.  

Offering a rare glimpse into working class and LGBTQI+ life in Alaska - excerpts of One Headlight have appeared in literary journals and the Netflix docuseries, Worn Stories.  This memoir will resonate with those who have lost a loved one to cancer - or wish to craft their own coming-of-age story.

Matt Caprioli is a Lecturer in the English Department at Lehman College.

RSVP by March 8^th:  https://libcal.lehman.edu/event/8580057

*This is an online event - URL will be sent via registration e-mail*

*Registration is required*

Information:  Michelle.Ehrenpreis@lehman.cuny.edu