Tee Corinne taught me what a lesbian looks like
UPDATE !! TEE's appearance on Woman-Stirred Radio has been delayed to her illness. Hopefully she can join us in a future show. Meanwhile, keep Tee in your thoughts and prayers.
Tee Corinne captures our bodies in photographs. Art-graphs, actually. Images that you can frame and hang on the wall. I had never seen lesbians in that context. Photographed, captured, filtered, treated, framed, and hanged. I loved it. I wanted a house filled with huge photographs from Tee Corinne.
You can see some of her photographs and an interview with her here:
http://www.queer-arts.org/archive/9809/corinne/corinne.html
Tee also created The Cunt Coloring Book. You can still purchase it and spend hours coloring the beautiful pussies. I saw it and spent hours with watercolors creating my own cunts that I could write across - letters to friends, poems, grocery lists. They were a backdrop in my life. Yes, Tee Corinne taught me what a lesbian looks like.
She is an incredible artist. You will want to hear this interview.
Unfortunately, my excitement of hearing Tee Corinne live on the radio is tempered because she was recently diagnosed with liver cancer. A friend of Tee's is maintaining a blog with updates on her health and you can send a card or flowers to Tee as well. Check it out:
http://jeansirius.com/TeeACorinne/tee_update.html
And don't forget to tune in at 4 p.m. on Tuesday, March 30th to hear great tunes from Merry and then the interview at 4:30 p.m. You can listen online at www.wgdr.org.
The incomparable Merry Gangemi is going to interview Tee Corinne on the Woman-Stirred Radio show on Thursday, March 30th at 4:30 p.m. I was thrilled to hear about this because it was Tee Corinne who taught me what a lesbian looks like.
Certainly I learned what a lesbian looks like from the women in Ann Arbor where I came out at college. And I learned what a lesbian looks like at the Michigan Womyn's Music Festival. And I learned what a lesbian looks like from the women that I loved. Those were real women and they presented their lesbian bodies to the world that still wanted in too many ways to deny them. They were there, though, in full flesh, loud and proud lesbians, living in the world. Certainly they taught me what lesbians looked like, too, but it was Tee Corinne with her photographs that taught me what lesbians look like artfully.Tee Corinne captures our bodies in photographs. Art-graphs, actually. Images that you can frame and hang on the wall. I had never seen lesbians in that context. Photographed, captured, filtered, treated, framed, and hanged. I loved it. I wanted a house filled with huge photographs from Tee Corinne.
You can see some of her photographs and an interview with her here:
http://www.queer-arts.org/archive/9809/corinne/corinne.html
Tee also created The Cunt Coloring Book. You can still purchase it and spend hours coloring the beautiful pussies. I saw it and spent hours with watercolors creating my own cunts that I could write across - letters to friends, poems, grocery lists. They were a backdrop in my life. Yes, Tee Corinne taught me what a lesbian looks like.
She is an incredible artist. You will want to hear this interview.
Unfortunately, my excitement of hearing Tee Corinne live on the radio is tempered because she was recently diagnosed with liver cancer. A friend of Tee's is maintaining a blog with updates on her health and you can send a card or flowers to Tee as well. Check it out:
http://jeansirius.com/TeeACorinne/tee_update.html
And don't forget to tune in at 4 p.m. on Tuesday, March 30th to hear great tunes from Merry and then the interview at 4:30 p.m. You can listen online at www.wgdr.org.
posted by Julie R. Enszer | 4:55 PM
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New Grant for Lesbian Media Artists Established: The Tee A. Corinne Prize
A new prize has been created to honor Tee A. Corinne, an artist with bold vision and a fierce dedication to encouraging and preserving lesbian art. The Tee A. Corinne Prize for Lesbian Media Artists, established by Moonforce Media, will award unrestricted grants of up to $1,000 annually. JEB (Joan E. Biren) will choose the inaugural prize winner. Application guidelines are online at http://www.jebmedia.com/5322.html. Applications are due by November 1, 2006.
The prize is for artists working in photography, film, video, digital media, new media, or any fusions of these forms and in any genre including documentary, narrative, experimental, or any other styles or combination of genres. The work may be about any subject.
Lesbian media artists are usually excluded from funding opportunities because the form and/or content of their work lie outside the bounds of traditional grantmaking. This prize furthers Tee’s wish that individual lesbian artists be financially supported to work independently and without censorship.
If you wish to add your financial support to help ensure the ongoing success of this grant, you can send a tax-exempt donation to: Moonforce Media, PO Box 13375, Silver Spring, MD 20911. All checks earmarked for the Tee A. Corinne Prize will go entirely toward funding the prize.
Moonforce Media is a non-profit 501c(3) organization that has been serving progressive communities by producing and distributing documentary films and videos since 1979. Our productions have been broadcast and used by organizers and activists in the peace, feminist and lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender movements. We are dedicated to promoting social justice through media and to encouraging queer media making.
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