Event Schedule and Locations:
11 a.m.: Lecture by Nate Schulman, Kerkhoff Hall Living Room
12 p.m.: Lunch, Institute for Media Literacy Patio
1:30 p.m.: Workshop with Nate Schulman, Institute for Media Literacy Blue Lab

About the Event

A series of events will be presented in conjunction with the exhibition Cruising the Archive: Queer Art and Culture in Los Angeles, 1945–1980 at the ONE National Gay & Lesbian Archives. The events will foster discussions about LGBT histories, queer art and aesthetics and archival practices in contemporary art.

The Getting Graphic event will feature writer and designer Nate Schulman. He will present a lecture on graphic-design strategies in queer activism followed by a hands-on workshop inspired by archival materials at the ONE National Gay & Lesbian Archives. The workshop will focus on design strategies utilized by early queer activists in the post–World War II era, a period of queer activism often overshadowed by AIDS activism in the 1980s and 1990s. Schulman’s lecture, along with a brief introduction by an archivist from the ONE Archives, will expose students to rare archival materials and historical approaches for raising consciousness.