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Thursday, November 13, 2008

This is another article in my series of 'where have the artists gone to...? Click here to see some drawings by Chris Taylor, a highly defined muscular, intelligent, witty and seriously hot looking Bear (pic #1 ~ pic #2).

The last I heard from him, Chris was doing was working on some comic books. This was back in '03, and I've sent him a couple of emails since but those emails have turned into cyberdust. A highly talented guy, gorgeous and menacing at the same time, because I met Chris Taylor way back in '00 (or '01) at this Bear Icons show. At the time, I was trying to get a 'Bear Mall' open with 2 other guys yet it fell thru, however Chris did some drawings (Bear Foot guy- and his boots). He also made me a BearPress guy (since the site I was running back then was called BearPress - pic #1 - pic #2). I hope all is well and I hope he's still drawing husky men because Chris sure had a knack for it.

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Friday, February 15, 2008

The following is from Les Wright, editor of Bear Book I and Bear Bear II and of Bear History Project: "Bears' artistic creativity has exploded in recent years. As the Bears' subculture has flourished world-wide into gay-mainstream community everywhere, opportunities for Bear creative types to find an audience has not kept pace.
 
The Bear world has changed since the early days of the Bear History Project and the Bear Icons art exhibitions on the East Coast, and the first Bear Paws, then Ursology literary salons here at IBR. We are bigger, better, brighter than ever. The old venues are far too small and have outlived their usefulness. It is time to renew and redevelop the Bear arts – Bear writing, Bear photography and painting, Bear music and performing arts, Bear history and memoir. It is time for a new vision, bigger, bolder, broader, of these Bear arts.
 
Ursology brought a small taste of Bear writing and Bear visual arts to IBR. Bear cultural events have sprung up all over the US and overseas, Bear Café in New York, the Bear Film Festival in Vermont, and no doubt much, much more is happening today. Bears as subject matter of serious, established painters, theorizing Bear as homomasculine homoerotic ideal
 
This is a call to all Bear arts devotees – Bear creative types, arts nonprofit professionals, writers, scholars, film-makers, archivist, web publishers, commercial supporters of Bear community, friends with deep pockets, with vision, with big hearts, with creative drives to come together: to transform Ursology, or its next generation incarnation – into a Bear cultural phenomenon, into the Bear cultural event of the year.
 
Rather than mount a very small event, with little opportunity to do artists and writers justice, Ursology 2008 is being devoted to an open-ended forum, a call to plan a whole new kind of event. Spread the word!".

Ursology has its showing on February 16th at the Washington Gate Holiday Inn in San Francisco.

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Friday, January 4, 2008

Need some Bearish icons to place on your desktop for the new year...? Then head on over to Perdido's Bear Icons page and surely you'll be getting all kinds of raving comments on how cool your computer looks. There's 20 to choose from (including a few of the characters from his Bear Degeneration cartoon - in Italian - in English). To find out more about the handsome Perdido, check out his website, his Woof Blog as well as his TubeBear profile.

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Tuesday, December 11, 2007

The following is from Les Wright - editor of The Bear Book I and The Bear Book II: "Artists and writers who celebrate, investigate, chronicle, explore, or otherwise engage creatively with Bears - Bear identity, Bear community, Bear culture, Bear sensibility – are welcome to submit a proposal to participate in Ursology 2008, a two-hour salon, consisting of a reading and display of original works of art.

For the second year in a row, Ursology, the Bear literary and arts salon, will take place during IBR . That’s Saturday, February 16th at Holiday Inn on Van Ness Avenue, the host hotel in San Francisco.

Ursology 2008 is being organized by Les Wright, founder and curator of the original Bear History Project (Nashoba Institute) and of the Bear Icons and beyond art exhibitions (1999-2002). Proposals, samples of writing or artwork, all inquiries may be sent to the organizer via email (note: a 'placeholder' webpage can be found at BearHistory.com ).

Individuals interested in becoming involved in the development of future Ursology programs or the redevelopment of the Nashoba Institute and the Bear History Project are encouraged to contact Les, and to consider attending a planning meeting immediately following the 2008 salon".