About SQUART:Short for Spontaneous queer art, SQUART was conceived by Laura Arrington, out of the desire to foster community and create work without preciousness.
SQUART’s format is simple, people show up at 6pm, break into teams and are given a list of criteria with two hours to make a piece. At 8pm whatever is made is performed! The work is then commented on by a panel of judges. It’s usually incredibly creative, inspiring, fun, and always bizarre.
SQUART is and has been supported by THEOFFCENTER, SomARTS, The Lab, The Garage, Headlands Center for the Arts, and The San Francisco Foundation
Past Judges
Dale Albright, Yannis Adoniou, Rob Bailis, Big Art Group (Caden Manson and Jemma Nelson) Jess Curtis, Keith Hennessy, Kathleen Hermesdorf, Monique Jenkinson, Lex Leifheit, Sara Shelton Mann, Juanita MORE, Nirmala Nataraj, Jessica Robinson Love, Erika Chong Shuch, Meg Stuart, David Szlasa, and Annie Sprinkle
Past Participants
Dante Baylor, Randy Blaustein, Christine Bonansea, Mary Ann Brooks, Maggie Burkle, Harold Burns, Gabrielle Cameron, Cathie Caraker, Lula Chapman, Jennifer Chien, Yvette Choy, Abby Crain, Ryan Crowder, Shannon Currier, Annie Danger, Cara Rose Defabio, Rachael Dichter, Jorge De Hoyos, Hana Erdman, Patrick Ferrerri, Kiele Stewart Funai, Catherine Galasso, Christine Germaine, Ara Glenn-Johanson, Sami Giron, Charles Gushie, Minna Harri, Jesse Hewit, Philip Huang, Roche Janken, Evan Johnson, Kira Kirsch, Macklin Kowal, Sarah Kurtz, Mary Lachman, Joe Landini, Peter Max Lawrence, Emily Leap, Sadie Lune, Pearl Marill, Erika Mark, Elizabeth Mcsurdy, Michele Menard, Christina Miglino, Mica Miro, Honey McMoney, Qilo Matzen, Ri Molnar, Lito Morales, Norm Munoz, Shawnrey Notto, Kevin O’Connor, Alicia Ohs, Lazlo Pearlman, Julie Phelps, Jai Arun Ravine, Kirk Read, Sonia Reiter, Laura Malouf Renning, Kyra Rice, Loren Robertson, Anthony Rollins Mullens, Maryam Rostami, Hanna Satterlee, Kevin Seaman, Matthew Milo Sergi, Charles Slender, Stacey Swan, Liz Tenuto, Anne Whitehead, Tessa Wills, Michael Velez, Ronja Ver, Miriam Wolodarski, Sara Yassky, Irina Zadov
March 27th 2011 SQUART! Into the Wild! 24 hour Endurance/Retreat SQUART! at Headlands Center for the Arts
January 9th 2011 SQUART! We are the Resolutionists! New Years SQUART at SOMArts
October 30th 2010 SQUART! It’s Alive! Halloween SQUART! at The Lab
June 12th 2010 SQUART! Pride! at The Lab
March 27th 2010 Easter SQUART! at The Lab
February 10th 2010 Valentines SQUART! at The Garage
