NAAO+ Trailer with Penny Boyer

In this trailer we hear from Penelope Boyer, PhD about her life in New York City before NAAO.

She talks about her time performing in New York City with Anne Bogart, Tim Miller, Ain Gordon, Ping Chong, Stephen Petronio, and others during the 1980's in New York City.

Penny is a San Antonio, Texas-based queer/disabled/neurodivergent writer/activist/social-practice-artist/community-arts-advocate/queerator/arts administrator with over forty years' experience at local/regional/national/international levels.

She worked at NAAO during the start of the assault on the National Endowment for the Arts

(NEA) by the far right and its Congressional allies over NEA grants to exhibitions of art by Andre Serrano and Robert Mapplethorpe. Penny took over publication of The NAAO Bulletin which became a major engine of information and advocacy support for organizations and artists across the Unites States.

Links to some artists discussed:

Holly Hughes

Ain Gordon

Tim Miller

Karen Finley