PERCEPTION IS EVERYTHING

The Center is looking for members of the LGBT community to share their perception of gay culture. Through this outreach project, Abdi Osman will address public awareness and will cultivate an alliance between the Charlotte community at large and the gay and lesbian community.

Participants of the project will be provided a disposable camera that they will use to photograph iconic gay culture in Charlotte. Iconic can mean a variety of things, personally iconic, iconic to the LGBT community or personally iconic. From the collected photographs, Abdi will create a limited edition print that will be commemorative of the community and be distributed through out Charlotte. The culmination of the project will be unveiled at McColl Center for Visual Art on Friday, March 19 from 6 to 10 PM in celebration with Take Over Charlotte and the Lesbian and Gay Community Center.

If you are interested in participating and missed Abdi at Hartigans during Trivia Night or won’t be attending the “Gay and Gray” meet up at the Community Center, then drop in to McColl Center for Visual Art or the Lesbian and Gay Community Center to pick up your camera. For more information, please contact Devlin McNeil, Director of Education and Outreach at dmcneil@mccollcenter.org or 704.332.5535.

This project is funded, in part, by a grant from the Charlotte Lesbian and Gay Fund.