In the News
Jacqui Beck Presents at
artEAST in Issaquah
On October 18, 2017, Jacqui Beck delivered a presentation to the membership of artEAST in Issaquah, “Art for Social Change: the Gender Personal Project.” It had been more than 3 years since her Gender Personal exhibits at Kirkland Arts Center in Kirkland WA (May-July 2014) and at the Gender Odyssey International Conference at the WA State Convention Center (August 2014).
In her talk, Jacqui discussed with the her belief that art can be a gateway to learning about gender and other socially relevant issues. The presentation included a slideshow of photos of the Kirkland Art Center exhibit and of the people interviewed in the GP project, all taken by by Marc Hoffman. Marc and his wife, Tina, attended the presentation and were very active in the discussion that followed.
Gender Personal Article in
Broadway World
Gender Personal has been featured in Broadway World. Read the July 1, 2014 story at broadwayworld.com.
Gender Personal Article in
Seattle Gay News
"It won’t take long before – I think, I don’t know – before even using ‘Lesbian’ ‘Gay’ ‘Bisexual’ will be recognized as obsolete, because it is dependent on only two genders."
–Aidan, ‘Gender Personal’
interview subject
Gender Personal has been featured on the front page of the “Arts & Entertainment” section in the May 16, 2014 edition of the Seattle Gay News,
a leading voice for the region’s LGBTQ community.
Read the whole story on the Seattle Gay News website.
Madison Park Times
Front Page Interview
with Jacqui Beck
An interview with Jacqui Beck by Sarah Radmer, Staff Reporter for the Madison Park Times, became the front-page story for that newspaper’s June 4, 2014 issue. The article begins:
“Three years ago, when Madrona artist Jacqui Beck’s son came out as transgendered, she went through all of the emotions a parent usually goes through in that situation.
After a lot of reading, education and growing, Beck decided to use her art to create an exhibit about the experience of her son and other people in the transgender community.”
Read the whole story on the Madison Park Times website.
Gender Personal Featured at
International Gender Conference
August, 2014
Gender Personal presented at Gender Odyssey Conference, held at the Washington State Convention Center, Seattle, August 15-17, 2014.
Gender Odyssey is an international conference focused on the needs and interests of transgender and gender-nonconforming people.
Aidan Key, founder and director of Gender Odyssey and a prominent figure in the trans* community, has also been a source of steady support for Jacqui Beck and her Gender Personal project, including inviting her to exhibit and talk about the project at this year’s convention. After Jacqui interviewed him for Gender Personal, Aidan remarked, “When I saw what Jacqui created, I was deeply moved. She received all that I’d shared, and shaped it into a full garden of paintings and poems.”
Throughout the 3-day conference, paintings and poetry from Gender Personal,
as well as the work of photographers Anselm Skogstad and Kris Lyseggen (The Women of San Quentin),
comprised the art exhibit GENDEREVOLUTION. Through their separate work, Beck, Skogstad (anselmskogstad.com),
and Lyseggen (http://www.krislyseggen.com/) took us to a place of deep contemplation of what it is to be gender variant.
With their unique and personal views, they brought to the Gender Odyssey conference an opportunity to celebrate and
enjoy the variety of human expression and experience of this very important aspect of life.
Jacqui also gave a presentation about the Gender Personal project. The audience heard audio excerpts from the interviews, accompanied
by slides of Jacqui’s artwork and photographs by Richard Nichol and Marc Hoffman. The presentation included an open discussion.
