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Queer Ancestors Project
2025-2026 Artists

featuring prints by emerging Queer & Trans artists:

Adrien, Charlie Jay Cooper, Em Rodriguez, Gabriel Rocamora, Indigo,

JoJo, luz de nácar, Maiz, Sylvia, Saskia Latievarya

with Creative Director, Katie Gilmartin

Select an artist from the list below to scroll directly to their work

Click any print for a statement written by the artist

Charlie Jay Cooper

Gabriel Rocamora

Saskia Latievarya

Adrien

A trans man, from the waist up, shirtless, with his top surgery scars exposed, facing the viewer. He has large wings that resemble those of a monarch butterfly, printed in a blue to pink trans color gradient.

Крылья (Wings)

Charlie Jay Cooper

From left to right, a butch climbing a rock wall wearing shorts and a tank top that says “STAFF” on the back, a group of three people having a group hug, and a campfire with one arm placing a piece of firewood and another hand holding a match.

Up the Mountain

Em Rodriguez

Indigenous Land Back

Gabriel Rocamora

a lesbian couple embrace and kiss at their wedding. they are surrounded by armed guerrilla fighters who make a frame around the couple with their guns.

Bakla, ang lugar mo’y sa pakikibaka!

Indigo

two transmasc lesbians kissing in a Catholic stained glass window with the text "boca en boca." the stained glass window is arched and framed by a rectangular border.

boca en boca

JoJo

Hear Percy talk about Mythic Trancestry: Manananggal"!

a sinigang recipe with is bordered with traditional filipino tattoo designs. The title on top reads "naynay's sinigang" and there are different vegetables on both sides.

A Food Offering for My Ancestors

luz de nácar

Home Misses You Too

Maiz

Hear Sofia Fabio talk about "Women Talking"!

A mandala style carving with a North Star in the center, surrounded by four dragon eyes, 16 smaller stars, and four side profiles of dragons in the precolonial style of Guqumatz/ Quetzalcoatl. In the spaces outside of the head and the tail we see teardrop shapes of water and between the dragon faces there is a criss cross etching pattern.

Ojos de Obsidiana // Obsidian Eyes

Sylvia

Hear TIJA talk about "Light Splitter: Obatalá"!

A person sitting on a porch in dim light surrounded by plants with a house behind them.

I am your family

Saskia Latievarya

Hear Zoe talk about "Death, As In, I Love Who I am Becoming"!

You are my Asylum

Thank you!

The Queer Ancestors Project is devoted to forging sturdy relationships between LGBTQI people and our ancestors. Using history as a linchpin, we build community by providing Queer and Trans artists, age 18 to 26, free interdisciplinary workshops in printmaking, writing, and Queer history. Public exhibitions and readings of their work provide a window on the past through which the larger community can glimpse our collective future.

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