Local self-proclaimed queer artist and designer Makenna O’Keeffe will be making a statement by hosting “The Pansy Palette,” a new monthly offering at the …
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Local self-proclaimed queer artist and designer Makenna O’Keeffe will be making a statement by hosting “The Pansy Palette,” a new monthly offering at the Northwind Art School at Fort Worden.
O’Keeffe was inspired by Port Townsend’s Victorian era-aesthetic to recall the Victorian-era queer code that emerged to help LGBTQ+ people signal to each other that they were “family.”
Although “pansy” has occasionally been used as a pejorative phrase, O’Keeffe noted that in Victorian times, queer people used the pansy flower, the green carnation, and other secret codes and imagery to covertly signal their queerness.
O’Keeffe plans to host Pansy Palette nights on the Wednesdays of Feb. 9, March 12 and April 9, for which Northwind Art emphasized that people need to sign up in advance online, under the “Take a Class” tab of their website.
“Participants are asked to sign up in advance to ensure this activity has enough people enrolled,” said Diane Urbani, communications manager for Northwind Art.
O’Keeffe is an artist, ex-architect and community arts organizer who said she loves to build community through creative expression, activism and mutual aid.
