Twin Cities Pride desires to use the visibility and platform we have as an LGBTQIA2S+ organization to elevate the work and voice of local LGBTQIA2S+ artists and amplify their exposure in the community. We seek a mutually beneficial partnership with Artists to represent their work and represent Twin Cities Pride to our community and youth showing what is possible when living as your true self and following the passion and artistic expression deep within all of us.
Twin Cities Pride is committed to celebrating and uplifting LGBTQIA2S+ voices and talents within our community. We are excited to continue to grow our two year-long Artist Program designed to empower and showcase LGBTQIA2S+ artists. This program aims to provide a platform for artists to express themselves, connect with the Pride community, and contribute to the vibrant culture of our annual Pride festival.
Andy Lamp
Andy Lamp (he/him) is a Minneapolis-based artist building rainbows with paper, acrylic, wood, and anything else audaciously colorful. New on the art scene and self-taught, Andy draws on his life experience, queer identity, interests (particularly in maps and geography), and the people and places around him to create color-driven pieces that inspire wonder, a sense of belonging, and unapologetic queer joy.
Boo McCaleb
Boo McCaleb (he/they) also known as Booscapes is a Minneapolis-based projection artist and creative technologist whose work bridges visual storytelling, community healing, and immersive design. Booscapes transforms public spaces with light, color, sound, and projection. Booscapes’ installations center interactivity, ecology, spirituality, and the collective imagination.
Carmel Dor
Carmel Dor (they/them) is a Minneapolis-based artist and educator. Their research-based practice uses painting, drawing, zine-making, and sculpture to investigate felt time in moments of transition. Dor’s recent work is particularly interested in how queer theories of mutable identity formation map onto the Jewish Diaspora and Israeli Nationality as sites of historical and necessarily forthcoming transition. Their work is featured on the White Columns Registry and they were a 2023 Ortega y Gasset Projects Artist to Watch. They received grants from the Tyler School of Art to complete their artist books Economy of the Droplet (2022) and Kur Hituch (2023) and were an artist in residency at the Duckworth Scholar’s Studio Makerspace (2024). They are currently an Adjunct Professor at Hamline University and MCAD and have previously taught at Augsburg University, Tyler School of Art, and Moore College of Art and Design. Dor has degrees in Art and Art History from the University of California, Davis, and an MFA from the Tyler School of Art and Architecture at Temple University.
Lily Wenndt
Lily Wenndt (she/they/he) is a queer and disabled Minneapolis-based artist and small business owner. They graduated in 2021 from the Minneapolis College of Art and Design with an Illustration major and minors in Creative Writing and Art History. They also hold an Associate of Fine Arts Degree from Normandale Community College. Since leaving college, they have explored many artistic avenues, from collaborating with artists on brand design, showing their work at art fairs across the Midwest, to opening and running their own small business. In every avenue, Lily’s work has been based on the belief that art should be accessible to all, both through opening opportunities for artists as well as selling art that is at a sustainable price point. This has led to them leading an artists and makers collective, giving talks at colleges, as well as working with up-and-coming illustrators one-on-one. Community is key to their work, building connections, supporting fellow artists, and making art available to all. Their personal work revolves around the idea that art is political. They work to counter isolationism and fear with connection and community through joyful and funny illustrations. There is no change without activism, and there is no activism without joy. Finding joy in the dark and spreading hope is key to Lily’s work and outlook.
