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Queer|Art Announces Judges For Two Annual Grants:

The Robert Giard Grant for Emerging LGBTQ+ Photographers and The Barbara Hammer Lesbian Experimental Filmmaking Grant

Queer|Art is proud to open applications for two annual grants: The Robert Giard Grant for Emerging LGBTQ+ Photographers and The Barbara Hammer Lesbian Experimental Filmmaking Grant.

The Robert Giard Grant for Emerging LGBTQ+ Photographers supports the creation of work by photographers whose projects address issues of sexuality, gender, or LGBTQ+ identity. With support from The Robert Giard Foundation, the international grant provides an award of $10,000 for the winner, and $1250 for four finalists, to support the creation of new work by emerging LGBTQ+ photographers.

Named in honor of photographer Robert Giard (1939-2002), a portrait, landscape, and figure photographer whose work focused on LGBTQ+ lives and issues, the grant focuses on supporting emerging LGBTQ+ photographers who document, depict, and interrogate past and present LGBTQ+ cultures. This grant is made possible entirely through support provided by The Robert Giard Foundation. This year's judges include Lola Flash, Ariel Goldberg, Leandro Justen, Logan MacDonald, and Benjy Russell. Applications close February 15, 2023.

Apply For The Robert Giard Grant:

https://www.queer-art.org/giard-grant?mc_cid=5759b1aef0&mc_eid=f0641736b5 

The Barbara Hammer Lesbian Experimental Filmmaking Grant is an annual grant awarded to self-identified lesbians for making visionary moving-image art. Work can be experimental animation, experimental documentary, experimental narrative, cross-genre, or solely experimental. Applicants must be based in the U.S. This grant was established by Hammer in 2017 to give needed support to moving-image art made by lesbians. 

The grant is supported directly by funds provided by Hammer’s estate and administered through Queer|Art by lesbians for lesbians, with a rotating panel of judges. This year's judges include Taylor Renee Aldridge, Nazlı Dinçel, and Lourdes Portillo. The grant includes an award of $7,000. Applications close February 15th, 2023.

Apply For The Barbara Hammer Grant:

https://www.queer-art.org/hammer-grant?mc_cid=5759b1aef0&mc_eid=f0641736b5 

About Robert Giard and Barbara Hammer

Robert Giard (1939-2002) was a portrait, landscape, and figure photographer who came to the practice of photography relatively late in life. In 1972 he began to take photographs, concentrating on landscapes of the South Fork of Long Island, portraits of friends, many of them artists and writers in the region, and the nude figure. He is best known for photographing over 500 LGBTQ+ writers and activists. A selection from this project, "Particular Voices: Portraits of Gay and Lesbian Writers", was published in 1997 by MIT Press and lead to a groundbreaking exhibit at the New York Public Library the following year. In 1985, after seeing a performance of Larry Kramer’s The Normal Heart, as the AIDS crisis raged, Giard decided to turn his camera towards the LGBTQ+ literary community to preserve a record of queer lives and histories. He began documenting LGBTQ+ literary figures, both established and emerging, in a series of unadorned, yet sometimes witty and playful portraits that would eventually number over 500 by the time of his death.

Barbara Hammer (1939-2019) began making films in the 1970s. She is most well-known for making the first explicit lesbian film in 1974, Dyketactics, and for her trilogy of documentary film essays on queer history: Nitrate Kisses (1992), Tender Fictions (1995), and History Lessons (2000). Her cinema is multi-leveled and engages audiences viscerally and intellectually with the goal of activating them to make social change, often through an exploration of the materiality of the filmmaking process and its relationship to the body’s potential as subject, form, author, and screen. She has been honored with seven retrospectives, including a forthcoming exhibition later this year at the Wexner Center for the Arts in Columbus, Ohio. Previous retrospectives took place at The Museum of Modern Art in New York City, Tate Modern in London, Jeu de Paume in Paris, the Toronto International Film Festival, Kunsthalle Oslo in Norway, and The Leslie Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art in New York City. Her book Hammer! Making Movies Out of Sex and Life was published in 2010 by The Feminist Press at The City University of New York.

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