In this episode we dissect the documentary 'Mucho Mucho Amor, the legend of Walter Mercado'. We dive into his life, his significance in brown communities, his flamboyant queerness, his "artist look", and go on a rant about artists and contracts! In our second half we interview our first guest the fabulous artist Edgar Fabian Frias who talks about the influence Walter Mercado had on their creative practices! (the interview starts at 38:55)

Links:

website: Edgar Fabian Frias

Energy Practice: Edgar Fabian Frias

instagram: Edgar Fabian Frias

Mucho Mucho Amor, the Legend of Walter Mercado

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In this episode we talk about our "new normal", shout out The GLB Memorial Fund and The Foundation for Contemporary Art, share some helpful grant writing tips, and officially announce we are going bi-monthly after next week's episode!

LINKS:

https://www.glbmemorialfund.org/

Mr. Vale and Miss Tina recall the first pride, the Stonewall Riots. Part 2 of 2

Links:

Miss Tina's Sondheim Art Prize Finalist Virtual Exhibition:

Mr. Vale and Miss Tina recall the first pride, the Stonewall Riots.

Links:

https://makinggayhistory.com

https://marshap.org/about-mpji/

https://srlp.org/about/who-was-sylvia-rivera/

https://www.npr.org/2020/06/26/884080764/they-dont-say-our-names-enough

In this episode Mr Vale gets Covid19 on a boat. Miss Tina experiences a FAILED cheeto rally. We congratulate our queen Jaida Essense Hall and remember the life of Egyptian LGBTQA activist Sara Hegazy.

SHOW NOTES:

https://issuevoter.org

https://www.cdc.gov/spanish/

https://www.cdc.gov

Mr Vale and Miss Tina discuss how to be a respectful and effective accomplice during the BLM movement.

Both Mr Vale and Miss Tina fall in love with the work of Mexican artist Teresa Margolles (who btw, Miss Tina didn't even know before this episode!) and discuss how her work relates to rituals of mourning during our current pandemic.

Miss Tina had a terrifying experience with a ride-share driver in Tulsa and Mr Vale discusses her work: destroying weapons.

During this episode Miss Tina and Mr Vale discuss applying to grants and relief funds for creatives during COVID-19.

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comprehensive crowd sourced resources:https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/u/1/d/1fFyKzxtzSFGzzvpRySJNtsVbjJhwnK7-N9KJxSHrW6w/htmlview?usp=gmail

Artist Relief Grant $5k: https://www.artistrelief.org/

Foundation for Contemporary Art - COVID19 emergency grant:https://www.foundationforcontemporaryarts.org/grants/emergency-grants

DC based Wherewithal Grants:https://www.wherewithalgrants.org/