The Low-Res Visiting Artist & Scholar Lecture Series resource guides contain upcoming speakers' biographies, articles, video and audio content, related publications in the Flaxman Library, and additional online resources. These guides may be used in preparation for the public lecture, studio visits, and post-lecture discussion.
Holly Hughes: Monday, June 30, 6:00–7:30 p.m. CT
SAIC Ballroom, 112 South Michigan Avenue
Holly Hughes is a writer and performer whose fearless exploration of queer/lesbian/feminist identity has won them both accolades and congressionally lobbed rotten tomatoes. A Guggenheim fellow, they have received two Obie Awards, 5 fellowships from the NEA, a Lambda Book Award, GLAAD Media Award, and their work has been presented at venues including the Whitney Museum, the New Museum, Yale Rep, Woolly Mammoth, On the Boards, as well as international venues. Currently, they are faculty at the Stamps School of Art and Design at the University of Michigan where they direct the BFA in Interarts Performance.
Holly Hughes’ Politics of Pleasure
Elaine Velie | Hyperallergic | June 11, 2024
Hughes on First: An Interview with Holly Hughes
Faith Zamblé | The Civilians | May 16, 2025
"Have You Heard the One about the Lesbian Who Goes to the Supreme Court?": Holly Hughes and the Case against Censorship*
Richard Meyer | Theatre Journal | p. 543-552 | December, 2000
*This is a library resource that requires ARTIC login
O Solo Homo
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O Solo Homo is a diverse, definitive, and hugely entertaining collection representing the cutting edge of queer solo performance. The pieces in O Solo Homo touch nerves that run deep -- from sex, politics, community, and health to the struggles and joys of family, friends, and lovers. Peggy Shaw, of Split Britches, revisits how she learned to be butch. The late Ron Vawter, of the Wooster Group, juxtaposes the lives of two very different men who died of AIDS: diva filmmaker Jack Smith and Nixon crony Roy Cohn. Tim Miller, one of the NEA Four, surveys the landscape of gay desire before and after the advent of AIDS. And Carmelita Tropicana, the "National Songbird of Cuba," makes an unforgettable, hilarious return to Havana.
An Interview with Holly Hughes of the NEA Four
CAA News Today | May 11, 2017
Barbara DeGenevieve and the NEA
In Your Face: Barbara DeGenevieve, Artist & Educator | SAIC Exhibitions | September 13 - December 7, 2024
NEA 1994
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