Join the Institute for the Humanities' Woodhead Visiting Artist Phranc for an evening of music and bow-tie making at Flint ArtWalk. Drop by between 6pm and 9pm for light snacks and a chance to meet Phranc, a self-professed queer artist, Jewish lesbian folksinger, and cardboard cobbler.

This event is presented in collaboration with the U-M Flint Center for Gender and Sexuality and Riverbank Arts.

Phranc's installation The Butch Closet runs Sept. 12-Oct. 25 at the Institute for the Humanities Gallery.

About the installation:
In the multi-media installation The Butch Closet, artist Phranc illustrates her life stories as a queer artist, Jewish lesbian folk singer, and "cardboard cobbler." By meticulously re-creating personal objects and pieces of clothing out of paper, cardboard, thread, and paint, she revisits her own history, contextualizing her experiences as an iconic performer, and maker, constructing, reconstructing, and re-imagining her image against a larger historical context of second-wave feminism and queer activism. The institute's presentation of The Butch Closet is the second iteration of the project, offering a more intimate and immersive engagement with Phranc's sculptural works. As part of the installation, visitors can peer into a closet built in the center of the gallery designed by the artist. Conceptually, the space shifts from inside to outside, public and private, and explores themes of visibility and that which remains inaccessible or unseen.