Project
Support Trans Voices
June 2024How can we affirm queer youth in public space during this vulnerable time in their lives? Six queer and trans BIPOC artists designed affirming messages for trans youth, written by Transchool students.
Artists
Hootnannie, Kyle Lasky & Raquel Hazell, Parisa Parnian, Salvador de la Torre, Jeromy Velasco, Loveis Wise, Yaicecream
Artworks
Trans Youth, We’re Rooting for You!
Annie Hong aka Hootnannie (they/she) is a self-taught Visual Artist whose bold and colorful work has been featured in various exhibitions and spaces throughout the United States and South Korea. With painting as their primary medium, their insatiable curiosity has led them to venture into the worlds of murals, body painting, digital art, installations, and more. Hong’s work can be described as an eclectic blend of pop art infused with bold and vivid colors, patterns, and poetry. Their work often incorporates uplifting, inspirational messages and whimsical wordplay scattered amongst a hypnotizing array of bright colors and playful patterns. They aim to express a familiar sensation of emotions and nostalgia all of us have collectively shared through patterns found in life to show how we are all inherently connected.
Trans Youth, You Are Not Alone.
Parisa Parnian’s artwork focuses on the colorful intersections of ancestral traditions and the modern, subversive world that she inhabits. Parisa is an Iranian-American multi-disciplinary visual artist and culinary creative. She uses food, design and performative storytelling to build bridges and connect communities.
Parisa’s signature style is to play with and subvert the colorful layers of ancestral traditions of the MENA/SWANA cultures through her creative design and interactive culinary projects.
Trans is Sacred
Salvador de la Torre is a Mexican-born Texas-raised artist, educator and storyteller based in Southern California. Their drawing and performance work invoke the power of personal experience and family history to create artworks that exist at the intersection of activism, art production and praxes of self-acceptance. Their work engages politics of migration, memory, queerness, and gender in ways that remind us of the power and solidarity that can exist in quotidian gestures. De la Torre’s production opens channels for theorizing vulnerability, intimacy, and proximity as radical undertakings in the space of the borderlands and beyond. In doing so, their work forges complex narratives of joy, struggle, adaptability, exhaustion and tenderness, as counternarratives that assert the wholeness, nuance, and humanity of immigrant communities, and queer subjectivities. Salvador earned an MFA from California State University, Fullerton and a BA from Texas A&M International University.
Trans is a Becoming Beautiful
Jeromy Velasco is an Filipino-American illustrator (born & raised Angelino) whose work is mainly centered around queer themes / queer experience. You can see nods to gaudy fashion influences, 90s & 2000s cartoon nostalgia, anything Halloween, & his love for Los Angeles. With a yearning to learn and incorporate as many new trades as possible, he has integrated a variety of mediums into his work including silkscreen printing, laser cut jewelry design, animation, augmented reality art, & most recently tattooing. You can find Jeromy selling hand-made merchandise + various art at queer nightlife events, conventions, zine fests, art fairs & more. Notable projects + client list include: a spread in a LGBTQ+ children’s book Our Rainbow, The World Mural Project for NYC World Pride, Dr. Martens, Ipsy and Paper Magazine.
You Will Bloom and Reach the Sun
Loveis Wise (they/he) is an illustrator, artist, and host of the podcast Exquisite Humans. Currently based in Los Angeles, Loveis' work is centered around reimagining futures, liberation, and queer/gender-expansive communities and their stories. Their constant world-building of playful dreamscapes has allowed them to create a distinctly recognizable style and palette, offering the ability for narrative storytelling through digital and traditional art making.
You Have No Idea How Much Joy Awaits You
Yaicecream is a self-taught artist from Spain, who has been residing in the US since 2009. Over the past 14 years, she has dedicated herself to creating a fantastical world of cartoons and fun environments that are uniquely her own. Her wide-ranging portfolio includes a variety of mediums; from digital illustrations and acrylic paintings to spray-painted panels and murals, as well as designing clothes, toys, and other creative projects. Yaicecream's art is characterized by the use of vibrant, cheerful colors and silly characters which evoke a sense of joy and playfulness in the viewer
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