Heather Raquel Phillips (ACG '17) Announced as the Leather Archives & Museum Visiting Scholar
Heather Raquel Phillips (ACG '17) has been announced as the Leather Archives & Museum Visiting Scholar. She was selected from a competitive field of proposals seeking to use the LA&M archival collections. Phillips will receive a $1,000 stipend, as well as travel support to enable her to visit the collections during the year. The Visiting Scholars program is funded through a generous grant from Leather Sins, hosts of Kinky Kollege in Chicago, IL.
Heather Raquel Phillips is a mixed race, interdisciplinary artist & independent curator living and working in Philadelphia. By equally employing both documentary and conceptual practices, Phillips explores the intersections of race, class, gender & sexuality. Phillips received her BFA from Tyler School of Art (2008) and her MFA from University of Pennsylvania (2016) where she was the recipient of the prestigious Toby Devon Lewis Fellowship & the Stuart Egnal Scholarship. She has recently exhibited in LA, Philadelphia, NYC and Washington D.C. Phillips is a lecturer in the fine arts department at the Stuart Weizman School of Design at The University of Pennsylvania, a member of the artist run gallery, NAPOLEON, Ms. Philadelphia Leather 2017 and a recipient of The Leeway Foundation Art and Change Grant. Phillips' research centers on the representation of marginalized people BY marginalized people within the leather community. She will focus her work on people of color, expanding on a regional project she began in 2017. Phillips is developing a new class she will teach at University of Pennsylvania called Queer Imaginings, and will also continue her work on a photography exhibit and film.
The Leather Archives & Museum was founded by Chuck Renslow and Tony DeBlase in 1991 as a community archives, library, and museum of Leather, kink, fetish, and BDSM history and culture.
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