Girls Rock! Rhode Island is a program that seeks to help girls and women to empower themselves through music, and they just published Women Who Rock Coloring Book. The book celebrates a variety of female musicians, from those who paved the way to the ladies who are influencing today’s vibrant music scene. An eclectic mix of performers are represented in its pages, including Cyndi Lauper, Patti Smith, Nina Simone, Yoko Ono, Joan Jett, Esperanza Spaulding and many more.

via Girls Rock Rhode Island : Yoko Ono by Jen Corace. Book sales @ etsy.

posting entirely cos i figure the Yoko fangirls following will want this

(via Girls Rock Rhode Island | Pikaland)

Girls Rock! Rhode Island is a program that seeks to help girls and women to empower themselves through music, and they just published Women Who Rock Coloring Book. The book celebrates a variety of female musicians, from those who paved the way to the ladies who are influencing today’s vibrant music scene. An eclectic mix of performers are represented in its pages, including Cyndi Lauper, Patti Smith, Nina Simone, Yoko Ono, Joan Jett, Esperanza Spaulding and many more.

(via Colouring Outside The Lines: Interview with The Strumpet ladies)

Cover of The Strumpet by Ellen Lindner

The Strumpet is a new comic anthology from the ladies behind the Whores Of Mensa comics (which were published in the UK between 2004-2010). The Strumpet brings together a brilliant team of female comics artists from the UK and USA, to produce a transatlantic collaborative publication containing eclectic illustrative and comics styles and techniques, and unique stories around the theme of ‘Dress-Up’.

via karaj:

we want your art and/or design skills for a poster publicizing an upcoming conference hosted by the academic journal women & performance! 

the conference is a big deal for us and we will be putting posters up all over the place—at NYU and other nearby schools and at other feminist events. we don’t have a big budget, but we would be able to pay you something, and you would get lots of publicity. 

interested? please email me at managingeditor@womenandperformance.org with some links to your best work and we will take it from there. thank you!

I’m on the look out for models to pose as an animal, character, creature, object or other fun thing for a new publication project of mine, a kids A to Z Book. 

A portrait session takes around 1 hour, up to 3 hours, and can be drawn at your home, my studio in Collingwood, Melbourne or other location (backdrops/backgrounds not really required). I will use your portrait as a basis for a scenario that frames your character in your chosen letter. For example, models Warren and Poss have already posed together as two hotdogs squirting each other with sauce to form the letter ‘H’ (sample at  www.flickr.com/photos/textaqueen). A little verse for each letter scenario will accompany illustrations that I intend to be kid-friendly but cheeky as heck. 

Preferably YOU come up with your letter, character and scenario (some letters are already spoken for), including your costume! Of course I can help with ideas and I can’t sew very well but I can staple and sticky tape ok. I’m imagining some of you have some amazing performance, halloween or dress up number you can appropriate. And I’ll use my texta magic to work the creases out. You don’t need a backdrop, because I can make it up.

I’m based in Melbourne but visit Sydney often. I might make it to Brisbane sometime before print time, and possibly Alice Springs and Perth too.

In return for posing you’ll receive a little load of TextaQueen merchandise and, also, if I use your portrait in the publication, you will receive a copy of the book.

Please drop me a line to textasforever at gmail dot com with the subject heading ‘Alphabet!’ if you’re interested in posing, the letter you like, the character or thing you want to pose as, where you are, etc and I’ll get back to you shortly. 

I plan to draw the initial drawings from March til later in the year (publication date not set as yet).

OMG! TextaQueen is a personal favorite artist. Can I make it to Melbourne, is “F” taken [femme outfoxers]. If you’re in Brisbane, and I provide the costume, would you be up to be the Red Riding Hood to my F?

(Source: creatrixtiara)

garconniere:

dapperanddandy:

Hey everyone! Check out Elisha’s all new Queer Love Cards that will be sold on Etsy! There are four different sets, “Hey Homo” “Hey Beautiful” & “Hey Handsome.” Each set are only $10. 

Be sure to check out more of her stuff in her Etsy shop including the 2011 Calendar: The Illustrated Gentleman.

“The cards are about a queer way of being in love, with things like butches saying “Hey Handsome,” transfags saying “Hey Beautiful,” and genderqueers saying “Hayy” and “I Like Your Cardigan.”” -Elisha Lim

file under: reasons why elisha lim is super awesome.

tearriffic:

bett norris is an illustrator from england. here she has illustrated the personal keepsakes & possessions of frida kahlo, syliva plath and edith piaf – for an exhibition entitled treasure.

This one is Sylvia Plath.

(via guerrillamamamedicine)

Art by Belinda Suzette, featured artist at next Sunday’s Brisbane Suitcase Rummage [she does their promo too].

The Suitcase Rummage is a diy arts, crafts, recycled, homewares, whatever market..it’s simple really:

Fill your suitcase with your wares, and travel to our designated spot on the day. Sell your wonderful goods old style. No hassle. No fuss. Good ol’ fashion markets.

Went along to the last one for the upcycled fashion and was excited by how many diy arts women there were too!

I missed out on registering for this Sunday’s rummage,  will go for the October round. If you’re a craftisan in Brisbane, entry re-opens each month, first in first served.

via Suitcase Rummage

Artist Interview: Tracey Long | Pikaland

Shameless Pikaland & Long interview promoting, because I love Long’s style and what Pikaland does for all those women creating across the roles of artist, illustrator and entrepranuer. 

Pikaland: What advice would you like to give people who are interested in being an artist full-time?
Long: Do it! and ignore that little voice that lives just above your left ear when it tells you you are not good enough…..!

curate:

Cristy Road, QUEER PUNK PRIDE Flyer (Ink, Watercolor, Digital Color, 2010) (via Untitled Document)

new art every day: another cover idea

Random pic from Elisha Lims blog, creator of the 100 Butches book, to link to this interview about the project on Art Threat:

AT: Where does your fascination with butch identity come from?

EL: Ever since my first crush punched me. There was some definitely some early butch-lust there. This is a question that I hope the comic helps me answer. Maybe if I can line up 100 personal stories, at the end of the day I’ll figure out why I let her punch me.

about the exhibition « DisBand

Riding the wave of success after last year’s Once Upon exhibition, Angela D’Alton and Renee Anne of Leeloo.com.au decided to continue the thrill (and insanity) of holding their own exhibitions in an effort to combat the perceived decline in attendance in the galleries of Sydney (all this amongst the shared work behind Leeloo, twinset.com.au and styling jobs!).

Inspired by the 40^th anniversary since the break-up of The Beatles, the theme of this carefully curated exhibition, titled Disband, is the end of relationships, be they romantic or otherwise.  With the support of one of Sydney’s favourite indie art venue’s, aMBUSH gallery, Renee and Angela will be creating somewhat of an installation where visitors will tour the apartment of a couple undergoing such a split, and the featured works will be on the wall of their “living space”.

Expect to see original pieces by Australian artists Kelly Smith, Ben Zen, Laura McKellar and Elisa Mazzone (examples shown in image) as well as talented peeps like Natalie Perkins, Jordan Clarke, Courtney Brims and Jessica Hyde and many more.

Last day in Sydney tommorow, yes, tommorrow Sun 30th. No worries, coming to Melbourne in August too :)

How to be an illustrator by Darrel Ress, reviewed by Amy at Pikaland

Illustrators in Malaysia are far and in-between. There’s not even a college or university that devotes a curriculum to hone their skills. What comes closest are those who lump graphic design and multimedia learning together, so that they can churn out students who are employable. I didn’t even realize that this was a career option at first!

But illustration is so much more than that. It’s about relaying information through your ideas, and turning concepts into drawings. It’s not about drawing for drawing’s sake – there’s problems to solve, briefs to think about and information to process. In order for me to gain better insight into the world of illustration, I picked up How to be an Illustrator by Darrel Rees last year.

mkarmstr:

American painter Dorothea Tanning (b. Galesburg, Ill., Aug. 25, 1910) learned to paint, she claimed, by visiting art museums. She attended Knox College in Galesburg, studied art in Chicago, and in 1935 moved to New York City, where she supported herself with advertising art and painted in her spare time. A commercial artist in New York, she began painting as a professional after meeting a group of French surrealist painters that included Max Ernst, whom she married in 1946. Tanning’s paintings have evolved from her early surrealist evocations of perverse children’s games and fantasies to experiments with different painting and, later, sculptural approaches—although her involvement with symbolic and dream material has remained constant. Her Hotel du Pavot, an installation in cloth sculpture, is in the permanent collection of the Beaubourg Museum in Paris.

“It’s hard to be always the same person,” reads the epigraph for A Table of Content, Dorothea Tanning’s first book of poems, published in 2004. After half a century of acclaimed drawing, painting, sculpture, collage, and set and costume design—with pieces in major museum collections, including the Tate Gallery, London; the Centre Pompidou and the Musée de la Ville de Paris, both in Paris; the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and the Chicago Art Institute, among others—Tanning turned her eye (and ear) to poetry, reinventing herself after retiring from visual mediums.

If you like Tanning, or at least her preference for surreal childrens dreamscapes, you might like the illustrator Art and Ghosts work.