Presented in conversation with SNMA Executive Director Hunter O&rsquo\;Hanian\, they will discuss the 25-year anniversary of her documentary film BLOODSISTERS: LEATHER\, DYKES AND SADOMASOCHISM (1995)\, and her work with the drag legend Mother Flawless Sabrina.
\n\nAbout Michelle Handelman:
\n\nMichelle Handelman is a New York-based artist who creates large-scale moving image installations about the dark and uncomfortable spaces of queer desire. Coming up through the years of the AIDS crisis and Culture Wars\, Michelle has built a body of work that confronts the things we collectively fear and deny: sexuality\, death\, chaos. She is a John Simon Guggenheim fellow (2011)\; a Creative Capital awardee (2019)\; a NYFA fellow\, and recipient of many other grants and awards including a residency at the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation on Captive Island\, Florida (2020). Her installation and performance project \;HUSTLERS &\; EMPIRES (2018) was commissioned by the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art\, and her films have screened at festivals throughout the world. Michelle&rsquo\;s solo exhibitions and installations have been shown at The Eli &\; Edythe Broad Art Museum\, MIT List Visual Arts Center\, PARTICIPANT\, INC (NYC)\, signs and symbols (NYC)\, PERFORMA Biennial\; The New York Film Festival at Lincoln Center\; Leslie-Lohman Museum \;of Art\, NYC (2015)\; The Henry Art Gallery (Seattle)\, AMP (Provincetown\, MA)\, Guangzhou 53 Art Museum (China)\; and The Pompidou Centre (Paris) among others. During the 1990s\, Handelman was based in San Francisco where she collaborated with Monte Cazazza\, a pioneer of the Industrial music scene\; directed the feature doc \;BLOODSISTERS: LEATHER\, DYKES AND SADOMASOCHISM \;(1995)\, and performed in several films by Lynn Hershman-Leeson. Her work has been widely reviewed in \;Artforum\, \;Art in America\, \;Filmmaker Magazine\, The New York Times\, The Brooklyn Rail\, and her work is in many collections including the Eli &\; Edythe Broad Art Museum\, Kadist Art Foundation\, Pigozzi Collection\, di Rosa Foundation and Preserve\; Zabludowicz Art Trust. She is a Professor in the Film\, Media\, and Performing Arts department at Fashion Institute of Technology. \;Learn more at michellehandelman.com
\n\nPhoto Credits:
\n\nPortrait of Michelle: &ldquo\;Photo of Michelle Handelman by Grace Roselli\, Pandora&rsquo\;s BoxX Project.&rdquo\;
\n\nStill from BloodSisters: &ldquo\;Michelle Handelman\, still from BloodSisters: Leather\, Dykes and Sadomasochism\, 1995. Courtesy of the artist.&rdquo\;
\n LOCATION:Stonewall National Museum and Archives 1300 E Sunrise Blvd Fort Lauderdale FL\, 33304 UID:e.2139.25901 SEQUENCE:3 DTSTAMP:20260409T144249Z URL:http://ggfortlauderdale.sampleorg.com/events/details/stonewall-museum-presents-a-conversation-with-artist-michelle-handelman-25901 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR