Gallery Conversation | Celebrating LGBTQ+ Artists: Luigi Lucioni

Join writer Jane Blunschi for the first of a series of talks that explore the works and lives of LGBTQ+ artists in the museum’s permanent collection. This series will feature one conversation per month beginning with Pride month in June and culminating with Gay History Month in October.

This month, we’ll be celebrating Pride by focusing on the theme of The Beloved, as seen through the work Portrait of Bob by Luigi Lucioni. We’ll take a close look at the artwork itself, the stories behind it, and discuss queer visibility, desire, and risk.

Free, no tickets required.

About the Speaker

Jane Blunschi’s fiction writing explores issues of spirituality and domesticity through a lens of queerness. Blunschi holds an MFA in Fiction Writing from the University of Arkansas. Her collection of stories Understand Me, Sugar was published in 2017 by Yellow Flag Press, and her work has appeared in Paper Darts, SmokeLong Quarterly, and Foglifter. Blunschi lives in Fayetteville, Arkansas.