Queer|Art Curates New Edition Of AFTER MENTORSHIP Presented As Part Of Danspace Project's Food For Thought Series

Queer|Art, New York City's home for the creative and professional development of LGBTQ+ artists, presents a new edition of the After Mentorship series as part of the Food for Thought program at Danspace Project (131 E 10th St, New York, NY) with two evenings of performances by Neil Goldberg & David Antonio Cruz (May 23) and Angela Dufresne & Kerry Downey (May 24). Each evening is organized to highlight the unique relationships-creative, professional, personal, and otherwise-that have developed between these artists through their participation as Mentors and Fellows of the celebrated Queer|Art|Mentorship program.

Danspace Project's long-running Food for Thought series presents unique evenings of performance selected by guest curators. Admission each night is just $5 + 2 cans of food or $10, no reservation necessary. Canned goods are donated to the Momentum Project, which provides support to any person in need in NYC, especially those living with HIV/AIDS or other chronic illness.

Thursday, May 23 at 8pm
After Mentorship with Neil Goldberg & David Antonio Cruz

Neil Goldberg mentored David Antonio Cruz during the 2017-2018 Queer|Art|Mentorship cycle. With Neil's support, David expanded a drawing series and an operatic performance based on the ethnographic photographs and 'Black Diaries' of British consul and Irish Nationalist Roger Casement, in which Casement wrote of his affairs with young men of color during his travels to the Congo and Brazil. "Queer|Art|Mentorship provided the one on one mentoring that I was seeking," David writes of his time in the program. "I held back at the beginning. I believe Neil saw that and created a safe environment for me to open up and be honest about my artistic insecurities to help guide me."

Friday, May 24 at 8pm
After Mentorship with Angela Dufresne & Kerry Downey

Angela Dufresne mentored Kerry Downey during the 2012-2013 Queer|Art|Mentorship cycle. They have continued to collaborate and show work together ever since. In spring 2015, Angela took Kerry on a fishing trip upstate. Kerry's subsequent project, Fishing with Angela, both a video and performance recreated for tonight's program, uses an overhead projector to mimetically recreate their mentor's gestures. This work explores the relationship between fishing and painting, mentor and mentee, wetness and flow.