0-99 The Art of a Rainbow Life: Still Here, Still Becoming
an intergenerational exhibition celebrating queer life, resilience, transformation, memory, and becoming across generations.
0–99 The Art of a Rainbow Life: Still Here, Still Becoming
The Fabulous Arts Foundation invites artists of all ages to submit work for 0–99 The Art of a Rainbow Life: Still Here, Still Becoming, an intergenerational exhibition celebrating queer life, resilience, transformation, memory, and becoming across generations.
This exhibition honors the beauty, complexity, and evolution of LGBTQIA+ lives from youth to elderhood. Through visual art, sound, movement, storytelling, installation, and experimental practices, “0–99” creates space for generations to connect through shared histories, chosen family, healing, survival, joy, and imagination.
We are seeking works that explore:
Queer identity across generations
Aging within LGBTQIA+ communities
Youth expression and discovery
Chosen family and lineage
Memory, grief, healing, and resilience
Transformation and self-realization
Legacy and futurity
The ongoing process of becoming
This exhibition centers the truth that queer and trans life does not exist in a single moment we are continuously growing, surviving, dreaming, and redefining ourselves.
We Welcome Submissions From:
LGBTQIA+ artists of all ages
Emerging and established artists
Youth and elder creators
Collaborative intergenerational works
Allies creating alongside queer community members
Accepted Mediums:
Painting
Photography
Fiber art
Sculpture
Installation
Video and sound
Performance
Poetry
Mixed media and experimental work
IMPORTANT DATES
Submission Deadline: July 15, 2026
Exhibition Opening: August 8, 2026 @Sarasota Art Museum
August 22, 2026 Exhibition runs for three months at 925 Maddox
A panel discussion with exhibiting artists will follow during the exhibition period (date TBA)
Call to artists:
Our 0-99 workshops
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May 23-Working with dried flowers, shells, and natural elements on wooden canvas, this session invites you to reflect on the passage of time and the quiet beauty found in change. Each participant will create a personal composition using materials that carry meaning objects shaped by life, memory, and environment. Materials will also be provided. You are encouraged to bring small objects of personal significance dried botanicals, shells, fragments, or anything that speaks to your journey.
This is not just a making session, but a moment of pause to consider what remains, what evolves, and what we choose to honor. The target is to maintain a focused and immersive experience.
Shoghi (Barr Aqdas Studios)
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This workshop will support LGBTQ+ folks in the community to create works to be a part of our community exhibition, "0-99: An Art of a Rainbow Life : Still Here , Still Becoming we will keep your artwork on loan to be in the exhibition.
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Cyanotype Workshop with Professor Eska Palmer
Join us for a hands-on workshop exploring the Cyanotype process, hosted by Professor Eska Palmer.
What to Expect:
We’ll provide all the materials you need, but we encourage you to bring along objects that hold personal meaning to incorporate into your design. Cyanotypes can be made with:
Pressed objects under glass (flowers and plant life work beautifully)
Want to use a photograph you took?
If you’d like to make a cyanotype from one of your photographs (cell phone images welcome), please email the image to eskapalmer@gmail.com by June 10th at 11:59 PM. Eska will convert it into a printed digital negative so it’s ready for use in the workshop.
Space is limited!
This workshop caps at 25 participants, so reserve your spot early.
If you attended our Fall Cyanotype workshop and want to build on what you made- we will additionally be exploring the stripping and toning process. So feel free to bring what you made in Fall if you'd like to explore other colors or matte/satin/gloss finish.
This workshop is part of the monthly arts initiative hosted by the Fabulous Arts Foundation in partnership with the Johnson Singer Arts Education Fund.
We welcome members of the LGBTQIA+ community, allies, and family members to join us in creating art with master instructors. All artwork created will be featured in the intergenerational exhibition “0–99: The Art of a Rainbow Life – Still Here, Still Becoming” at the Sarasota Art Museum and the 925 Maddox Gallery & Studios in August 2026.
While each workshop will provide themes for inspiration, your creativity is never bound to them. This initiative is a space to come together, share stories, and explore the power of art.
Community Partners: Also Youth, Senior Friendship Center, Project Pride SRQ, Sarasota Art Museum and many more. -
This workshop will support LGBTQ+ folks in the community to create works to be a part of our community exhibition, "0-99: An Art of a Rainbow Life : Still Here , Still Becoming we will keep your artwork on loan to be in the exhibition.
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Queer Ecology Printing Workshop - LGBTQIA+ YOUTH
with Saxon Anderson (he/him)
Part of the 0–99: The Art of a Rainbow Life — Still Here, Still Becoming Workshop SeriesJoin us for an immersive printmaking workshop exploring the vibrant and expansive world of Queer Ecology through the art of relief printing. Together, we’ll examine how queerness exists throughout the natural world and use printmaking as a tool for storytelling, visibility, and creative expression.
Queer Ecology is a way of understanding nature, biology, and sexuality through the lens of queer theory. It challenges the idea that heterosexuality and cisgender identity are the “default” in nature, instead highlighting the diversity and fluidity that already exists across ecosystems and species.
Throughout the workshop, participants will learn about animals whose behaviors and lifecycles reflect queer concepts, including clownfish, wrasses, earthworms, frogs, lions, penguins, albatrosses, gorillas, geese, giraffes, and dolphins. These examples help remind us that queerness is not outside of nature — it is deeply embedded within it.
Participants will also be introduced to the history and techniques of relief printing, one of the oldest forms of printmaking dating back to 5th century China and later flourishing in Europe and Japan through traditions like Ukiyo-e woodcuts.
Using rubber carving mats and gouges, attendees will create their own two-part relief print consisting of:
A primary line-art print
A secondary layered color print
This workshop is open to all ages and experience levels, inviting participants to carve, print, learn, and reflect together in an inclusive and creative environment.
Topics explored include:
Queerness in nature
Printmaking history
Relief carving techniques
Layered color printing
Art as education and advocacy
No prior printmaking experience required. Materials provided.
Additional reading:
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This workshop will support LGBTQ+ folks in the community to create works to be a part of our community exhibition, "0-99: An Art of a Rainbow Life : Still Here , Still Becoming we will keep your artwork on loan to be in the exhibition.
Be a part of the journey..
Join us! Two exhibitions to explore our LGBTQIA+ stories
Sarasota Arts MuseumAugust 8, 2026 Opening Reception 3-5pm
1001 S Tamiami Trail Sarasota, Florida 34236925 Maddox Gallery Studios + CenterAugust 22, 2026 Opening Reception 6-10pm
925 North Lime Ave Sarasota, Fl 34237
Also Youth
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Senior Friendship Center
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Project Pride SRQ
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Fabulous Arts Foundation
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The Players
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You
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Sarasota Arts and Cultural Alliance
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The Johnson Singer Arts & Education Fund
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Also Youth 〰️ Senior Friendship Center 〰️ Project Pride SRQ 〰️ Fabulous Arts Foundation 〰️ The Players 〰️ You 〰️ Sarasota Arts and Cultural Alliance 〰️ The Johnson Singer Arts & Education Fund 〰️
Ongoing archives:
The Couch Project is an intimate intergenerational storytelling and conversation series inviting LGBTQIA+ community members of all ages to gather over tea and share lived experiences, memories, wisdom, questions, grief, joy, survival, identity, and hope.
Centered around a couch installation within the exhibition space, the project creates a welcoming environment where generations can connect through honest dialogue and active listening. Youth, elders, and everyone in between are invited to sit together, exchange stories, and reflect on what it means to grow, survive, love, and continue becoming within queer life.
The couch becomes more than furniture it becomes:
A living archive
A place of witnessing
A chosen family living room
A soft space for truth-telling and healing
A bridge between generations
Tea is offered as a grounding ritual of care, comfort, slowness, and hospitality.
Contact: Shannon Fortner - Shannon.fortner@fabaf.org
Oral Stories:
Oral histories are powerful acts of resistance, remembrance, and community care. At a time when LGBTQIA+ stories and identities continue to face erasure, we believe it is more important than ever to document, preserve, and amplify the voices of our community.
Through storytelling, conversation, and shared lived experiences, we are creating space for LGBTQIA+ people across generations to be seen, heard, and remembered. These stories hold our joy, our struggles, our resilience, and our legacy.
By capturing oral histories, we are not only preserving the past — we are building a future where queer voices continue to inspire, educate, and empower generations to come.
They may try to erase our stories, but together we will continue to amplify our voices.
925gallery@fabaf.org