If you are anything like us you have a pile of old paintings that are taking up space. Here is an opportunity to hopefully get rid of them!

It is going to be very informal. We have a few tables and you are welcome to bring you own. We will set up outside and in the gallery space. Lean your art wherever you can find a spot.

If you cannot hang around with your art all day please write us up a price list and we will hopefully sell it for you!

If you aren’t selling art then come buy some! There will be food and beverages! Woo!

The sale will be happening from 12-6. See you all there!

Gay Genius is a comics anthology illuminating the past, present and future of queer history makers.

It is a labor of love, a celebration of possibility, an offering to the ancestors.

Conceived and edited by Annie Murphy, Gay Genius is a showcase of contemporary radical queer visionaries-to-watchout-for: KUBB E. BEAR, HARMONY BIANCA, SARAH SASS BISCARRA-DILLEY, PAM CAMERON-SNYDER, JACKIE DAVIS, MAT DEFILER, SAMANTHA JANE DORSE…TT, EDIE FAKE, SAILOR HOLLADAY, ELISHA LIM, ANNIE MURPHY, LEROI NEWBOLD, LEE RELVAS, ADEE ROBERSON, MATT RUNKLE, ELLERY RUSSIAN, CLIO REESE SADY, SILKY SHOEMAKER.:What alternative? Whose underground? We feel that queer comics artists/comics artists of color (and cartoonists of other marginalized groups) have always been relegated to the underground of the underground. This just won’t do! This is where Gay Genius comes in. With eighteen contributors whose storytelling is as unique as their artistic style, Gay Genius is not just a much-needed volume celebrating the work of queer artists, but it’s a must-have for contemporary comics lovers as well.

Gay Genius contributors Elisha Lim and Leroi Newbold will be hitting this road in October, reading stories and showing slides of our work, and talking about Gay Genius as a historic first anthology of queer comics, as well as its mandate to include queer intersectional identities, like diverse races, ages and abilities. They will be joined by writer, performer and cultural worker Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, who will be presenting work in progress from her collaboration with Elisha, 100 Femmes.

Elisha Lim is the author of 100 Butches which is a genderbending comic with an introduction by Alison Bechdel and praise from Shary Boyle, Ivan E. Coyote and Michelle Tea. Elisha’s work was voted best lesbian’s lesbian art on the authoritative queer site afterellen.com, and has been published in Bitch Magazine, Curve, Diva (UK), LOTL (Australia) and Xtra (Canada). The 100 Butches were the recipient of two major Canadian grants in 2010 and toured with the legendary Sister Spit caravan through 28 North American cities. In 2011 Elisha has lectured on art and gender at the University of Toronto, Ryerson, Brock and Concordia Universities, and debuted as the first solo show of Allyson Mitchell’s Feminist Art Gallery. Elisha will be collaborating with Leah Lakshmi PiepznaSamarasinha on the graphic novel 100 Femmes, and in December will launch 100 Butches with Magnus Books in New York.

Pushcart Prize nominee Leah Lakshmi PiepznaSamarasinha is a queer disabled Sri Lankan writer, teacher and cultural worker. The author of Consensual Genocide and co-editor of The Revolution Starts At Home: Confronting Intimate Violence in Activist Communities (South End, 2011), her work has appeared in the anthologies Persistence: Still Butch and Femme, Yes Means Yes, Visible: A Femmethology, Homelands, Colonize This, We Don’t Need Another Wave, Bitchfest, Without a Net, Dangerous Families, Brazen Femme, Femme and A Girl’s Guide to Taking Over The World. Her second book of poetry, Love Cake, is forthcoming in fall 2011. She co-founded Mangos With Chili, the national queer and trans people of color performance organization, is a lead artist with Sins Invalid and teaches with June Jordan’s Poetry for the People. In 2010 she was named one of the Feminist Press’ “40 Feminists Under 40
Who Are Shaping the Future.” Her one woman show, Grown Woman Show, has toured nationally, including performances at the National Queer Arts Festival, Swarthmore College, Yale University, Reed College and McGill University.

LeRoi Newbold is a visual artist, teacher, DJ and community organizer. Working in screen-printing, textiles, neon, xerox and zines, LeRoi makes art about revolution big and small. His art is about survival and thrival, queerness, Blackness and his idols and ancestors. It tells the story of where we go when we come from so many places that we don’t belong anywhere.