Salon Series 49: A Seat at the Table: Queer*+ Intersections

with Eve Scarborough, Jada Simone Haynes, Mikhail of Hearts

To celebrate Pride month, the Archive features a selection of work by Queer*+ designers, curated by members of the Collections Team.

To celebrate Pride month and the ongoing struggles for equity, this salon will showcase insights and perspectives of Eve Scarborough, Jada Simone Haynes, and Mikhail of Hearts as stewards of the Letterform Archive’s Permanent Collection through the acts of physical care, documentation, and audience activation.

They will explore the Archive’s Queer*+ intersections from a contemporary lens by considering their lived queer experiences, personal art practices, and how intersectional Queer*+ identities and experiences have historically been represented or overlooked in visual culture. They seek to establish A Seat at the Table, inviting dialogue and reflection around the following questions:

• Where do we see ourselves?
• How do we confront the colonial origins of archives in the work that we do?
• How can we honor and invite Queer*+ artists, designers, educators, and practitioners to pull up a chair and share their stories, across our past, present, and future?

The spread will include objects that engage both explicitly and implicitly with queerness, through an intersectional, expansive, and cross-disciplinary lens. The selection will also include objects that resonate personally, exploring queerness through structure, content, and language. A Seat at the Table is a call to action to challenge dominant narratives present in institutions and strive for inclusive storytelling in art and design.