WORKSHOP | DONATE WHAT YOU CAN | ALL AGES | A panel to commemorate the closing of Things That Are Long while centering transgender contributions to art. This panel will be composed of Mia Hutchinson, Dakota Noot, Edgar Perez, and Frankie Gutierrez.

Things That Are Long showcases the Master of Fine Art in Studio Art thesis exhibition of Frankie Gutierrez, a California State University, San Bernardino graduate student. Named after their latest illustrated picture book, THINGS THAT ARE LONG a book of long things, Frankie plays with queer aesthetics, food comparisons to the body, and illustrates trans bodies in new and hairier ways. Drawing from personal experience and the broader discussion of transness, Frankie explores his own transition, and the non-mainstream trans identities through illustrations, prints, large-scale murals, and short animated films.

Frankie Gutierrez is an illustrator and printmaker working within the Inland Empire's print and self-publishing book art communities. Utilizing bright colors and silly faces, they endeavor to highlight the playful nature of gender fluidity, and non-mainstream trans identities. Their work consists primarily of woodcut and litho prints, focusing on the process-heavy technical aspect of printing, relating the act of printing to queer labor and labor-intensive art-making practices for maximalist design. Using found objects and old clunky frames, they reimagine the world with fuzzy lines, neon colors, texture, pattern, and form for funky and intriguing characters who look like you and me, and no one at all.

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This event will be indoors.