The Butch Closet and future 2025 updates!

 

On September 12 2024 The Butch Closet doors swung open at The University of Michigan. Many thanks to Holly Hughes for inviting me to kick off the GENDER EUPHORIA! performance series. The evening started with Phranc Talk  

at the Penny Stamps Speaker series and continued to the Butch Closet installation at the Institute for the Humanities gallery. Brilliantly curated by the incredible Amanda Krugliak, and assisted by the invaluable Ed Diven, this iteration of The Butch Closet was an actual closet with doors and drawers spilling over with paper clothing and Phranc ephemera. My 2 week residency included Bow-Tie making workshops and engagement with classes and individual students. Many thanks to Holly Hughes for inviting me to kick off the GENDER EUPHORIA! performance series.
The whole experience was the BEST of everything: meeting new artists, teaching, laughing, affirming queerness and loving sharing my life and work with so many supportive and inspiring folks! There is even a catalog!!!!
I’m taking The Butch Closet on a world tour!!!!!!

This Summer I’m working on my next show that celebrates my 50 years of being OUT as a Dyke, Queer, Lesbian! It’s appropriate that the opening will be on October 11, 2025- National Coming Out Day- more details on celebratory opening activities( a Butch Boxer fashion show??) So save the date at Craig Krull Gallery in Santa Monica.

Stay cool, stay out and stay tuned for more..
xxx
Phranc

Springtime is here!!

Ahoy!

Springtime is here and lot’s of PHRANC stuff is going on! First of all my multi-media memoir, Phranc Talk:The Butch Closet will be opening October 28, 2023 at Craig Krull gallery in Santa Monica (more details as we get closer the date.) AND……The 2001 film by Lisa Udelson “Lifetime Guarantee: Phranc’s Adventure in Plastic” that documents my first year selling Tupperware will soon be released. So stay tuned! A Phranc songbook with lyrics, tabs, photos is in the works. Very soon all my music , which is currently available on https://phranc.bandcamp.com/will be streaming on all platforms. I’m working away on all of this while I create new pieces for the Butch Closet.

Stay safe and keep swimming,

xxxPhranc

Phranc Talk 2020

 

Moving! Moving! Moving! I’ve been busy but now it’s time to settle down and focus on Phranc Talk 2020. The book, the show, the music are all slowly coming together. This is a big project and I can’t do it alone. I need help scanning and archiving and designing and recording and organizing! I need stories and photos and videos from folks who witnessed performances across the decades. So stay tuned. I will be setting up a dropbox link soon. I will stay current and keep you all posted. Also I am working on new paper sculptures for my September 2020 show at The Boise Art Museum.

So Happy 2020!

Always remember to wear your lifejacket!!!
Stay afloat!
xx
Phranc

2019!!

Ahoy and Happy New Year! January is sailing quickly by and while storms still rage in many parts of our world there are now bits of blue sky to shout about. February is becoming crowded with many exciting things. On FEBRUARY 14th ART CENTER SCHOOL OF DESIGN in Pasadena presents “GARB” AT THE WILLIAMSON GALLERY (http://williamsongallery.net) Annie Oakley and a few of her paper pals will be included in this show. GARB will explore the different approaches in which clothing, attire and costumes intersect in the visual arts.

February 16th at 8pm I return to McCabe’s Guitar Shop in Santa Monica

Get yer tix here: https://www.store.mccabes.com/cart.php?target=product&product_id=2200

February 20-24 I travel to Austin Texas for OUTsider Fest! On February 22 at 7:30 pm I am thrilled to present “Phranc The All-American Jewish Lesbian Folksinger and The Art of The Cardboard Cobbler” https://www.outsiderfest.org/

I hope to see you at one of these events Lifelovers

XXX Phranc