Feature: The inside scoop on Trans Art Mart on Dec 14th, 2025: An Interview with Miller Potoma
Trans Art Mart is a vibrant annual marketplace showcasing the work of trans, non-binary, and gender-expansive creatives in the Philadelphia region. The event brings together an extensive range of creative practices—including visual art, crafts, home goods, clothing, and other handmade works—and will take place on Sunday, December 14, 2025, 11AM to 5PM, at the Bok Bulding
WayOut sat down for an interview with Miller Potoma, Event Manager of Trans Art Mart. The conversation explores the significance of queer and trans-led cultural programming, the practical considerations of organizing community-centered events, and the collective impact of creating spaces where LGBTQ+ artists can gather and thrive.
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Looking Back on our 1st Annual Juried Art Exhibition: An Interview with Thom Duffy
In honor of our 20th Annual Juried Art Exhibition, Arts Committee member Natalie Manes had an interview with Thom Duffy, one of the organizers of our First Annual Juried Art Exhibition in 2006. The conversation centered around the impact of the First Annual Juried Art Exhibition and the role that art plays in building and sustaining LGBTQ+ community spaces like the William Way LGBT Community Center.
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Review: Nicolo Gentile’s Bar None Celebrates the Right to Assemble
Arts Committee Member Jeff Joseph Katz reviews Nicolo Gentile’s Bar None, a public sculpture by the Association for Public Art on the Benjamin Franklin Parkway.
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Hispanic Heritage Month Feature: Hagudeza Rullán-Fantauzzi
Arts Committee member Keesean Moore talks with interdisciplinary artist and filmmaker, Hagudeza Rullán-Fantauzzi, whose work draws from her experiences as an Afro-Boricua Trans woman.
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A Conversation with Kathryn Pannepacker
Ahead of Kathryn Pannepacker’s upcoming solo exhibition at the William Way LGBT Community Center, You Are Welcome Here. I Saved a Chair for You (opening on Thursday, September 11, 6-8PM), curator and Exhibition Manager Jake Foster sat down to discuss Pannepacker’s journey as an artist, themes of the exhibition, engagement with community work, and our upcoming 5-Week Fiber Art Workshop.
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The Journey toward Unity: A Conversation with Prince Anthony Thomas
In conceptualizing his outlook on life, Prince Anthony Thomas visualizes himself as a bus driver. As he moves along with a destination, goal, or accomplishment in mind, he imagines his bus picking up the people who have impacted his life, both positively and negatively, and taking them on his journey. It is a lovely metaphor for the growth and self-exploration that we all do throughout our lives, as well as the influences and community spirit that shape us along the way. Thomas shared this metaphor with me at the beginning of our interview, and its message echoed through our conversation as we discussed Thomas’ upbringing, the development of his art style, and his upcoming exhibition, 19 Portraits: Honoring Black LGBTQ+ Philadelphians, which opens on June 5 at William Way.
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Exhibition Review: Z-Coded: Painting While Trans and Incarcerated at Dyke+ ArtHaus
Z-Coded: Painting While Trans and Incarcerated, on view until May 11th, 2025 at the Dyke+ ArtHaus, features the bold, emotionally-charged work of Kal-El Carey, a Black trans man currently incarcerated in a Pennsylvania women’s state prison. Carey, whose work is full of vibrant colors mixed with symbolic figures, describes his style as “Urban Abstract Surrealism.” Carey has been fighting the PA Department of Corrections for trans rights and trans healthcare for years. All of Carey’s work was made while incarcerated, serving as a way to cope and process life inside the prison. As Carey puts it, his purpose with his art is “to show that different is also beautiful.”
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Arab Heritage Month Feature: Rami George
Jake Foster sat down for an interview with Rami George, our Artist-in-Residence, for Arab Heritage Month in April 2025.
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A Conversation with Jonathan Lyndon Chase, by Keesean Moore
Jonathan Lyndon Chase is the juror for the 3rd Art Student Biennial, which is on view at the William Way LGBT Community Center until April 17 , 2025. Chase recently sat down for a chat with Arts Committee member and owner of The Moore Vintage Archive, Keesean Moore. Their conversation covered everything from art, fantasy and the importance of living deliciously.
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