TBQA OPEN CALL — PUBLISHING PROJECTS (MAGAZINE + SOCIAL + PODCAST) From The Bureau of Queer Art

TBQA is building a loud, tender, intelligent archive of queer and allied artists—and we want you in it.

This call is for artists who are ready to be seen with context: not just a single image tossed into the algorithm, but a real feature, a real conversation, a record that lives beyond the scroll. We publish across three channels—the TBQA magazine, social media spotlights, and the TBQA podcast—and we curate each one to amplify your work without flattening it.

What you get (the benefits, straight up)

Visibility with substance
We don’t do drive-by posting. We frame your work with words that actually respect it—artist statements, interviews, studio process, and the why behind what you make.

Professional assets you can reuse
Published feature + shareable excerpts, pull-quotes, and clean promo materials you can link in bios, grant applications, residency applications, and press kits.

A growing audience that cares
TBQA reaches collectors, curators, artists, and cultural workers who actively follow queer contemporary art—not just “likes,” but attention that turns into opportunities.

Narrative control
Your voice stays intact. You approve key details. We build a platform with you, not on you.

Cross-promotion across TBQA
Features are shared across our channels and often connected to TBQA programs—exhibitions, special issues, and community opportunities—so the publication isn’t a one-off, it’s a doorway.

Archive value
Your work enters a living library—an ongoing record of queer culture being made right now, by us, for us.

Bold practices. Honest process. Work that has heat—political, erotic, spiritual, conceptual, domestic, surreal, tender, furious. Any medium. Any career stage. Queer and allied artists who want to build culture, not just chase it.