Item #32229 "In Celebration of Amazons...Midwest Lesbian Conference and Music Festival"
"In Celebration of Amazons...Midwest Lesbian Conference and Music Festival"
"In Celebration of Amazons...Midwest Lesbian Conference and Music Festival"
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"In Celebration of Amazons...Midwest Lesbian Conference and Music Festival"

Chicago: Women's Graphics Collective, 1974. Multi-colored screenprint poster. Produced by the Women's Graphics Collective, a socialist feminist organization formed in the early 1970s, the poster advertises the 1974 Midwest Lesbian Conference and Music Festival taking place from May 17-19th in East Lansing, Michigan. At the foreground of the image are two women, their faces apparently clipped from other sources: the pelt-wearing rider's is from an unidentified portrait from an earlier period, the flannel-sporting passenger's from a contemporary photograph. They ride out of the sunset on a horse, whose legs have been printed using an impressive gradient color register, and against a background of stars that gradually become double-sided battleaxes, a symbol adopted by the 70s lesbian community and known by its pun-appropriate Greek name, "labrys." The 1974 Festival arrived during a boom in lesbian cultural and community action in the Midwest; alongside the Women's Graphics Collective were the Lansing Area Lesbian Feminist Collective (a.k.a. the Ambitious Amazons), and the creation of the still-running free periodical Lesbian Connection. The Festival eventually became the Michigan Womyn's Music Festival, which held its last event in 2015, and as of 2022 has been replaced by Fern Fest. Usual trace edgewear, insubstantial two-inch crease at upper left, else near fine. (Measures 22 by 32 in.). Item #32229

Price: $1,500.00

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