…We Fancy Guest Curator Eric Shiner is set to discuss this fall’s curated exhibition on the legacy of LGBTQ+ artists at the League.

Since its inception, the Art Students League has been a site of unbridled creativity and a home for radical artmakers who reject social norms in the name of art. It is not surprising that many LGBTQ+ artists have found the League to be a space where they can express themselves and create art that expresses their honest, proud, and emboldened lives. The artists included in this exhibition all studied or taught at the League, and they each played a unique role in helping to lay the foundation for the acceptance and popularization of queer aesthetics as we know them today.