Gillian Maurer
All profits (ie. anything above our cost to make) for explicitly Trans prints, shirts, bags and other goodies are directed towards gender affirming care expenses for Trans community members. This may include surgeries, HRT, therapy, or other needed care. We are in the initial phases of developing a project to make these pieces available as fundraising resources to any Trans person interested in using them, and while we are creating that you are welcome to contact us at https://gillianmaurer.com/fundraising-tools/ to connect about existing designs or having new designs made to support your care.
Support Gillian’s work:
Venmo: @subversive-nematode
Gillian is a non-binary/trans multimedia artist working with a range of approaches from oil painting to mural work to live performance. The thread connecting all of their work is the exploration of resistance and liberation in the context of community. As a queer/trans person this comes from lived experience, and as a white/housed/able-bodied person on occupied Anikituwagi (Cherokee) territory, this comes from standing in solidarity, stepping back to listen, and trying to use visual language to celebrate the stories and experiences that other community members have been gracious enough to share with them. Without this community context, without the exchange of ideas and action in the work of liberation and creation, or without accountability in mutual support, this work would not be able to exist. With this in mind, Gillian believes strongly in the power of creativity to spark critical discussion, and builds their praxis around the concept of bringing form to liberatory ideas and movements through creative collaboration.
Gillian is a graduate of both the University of North Carolina at Asheville’s BFA drawing and BA sociology programs, and continues to work out of Asheville, North Carolina and surrounding areas in the southeast.