Perspective Tour with Beth Schindler

Join The Contemporary Austin on Wednesday, October 8, at 6:30 pm, for a Perspective Tour exploring Teddy Sandoval and the Butch Gardens School of Art with Austin-based artist Beth Schindler.

Perspective Tours is a talk and tour series in which guest artists, curators, and subject matter experts share information about their own work while lending insights into our exhibitions.

Beth Schindler (she/her) is an artist, curator, and organizer living and working in Austin, TX. Working in textiles, video, photography, found materialism, Schindler creates ephemeral installations for performance. Deeply committed to centering lesbians in inclusive spaces for all queers, she focuses on crafting creative and liberating experiences to connect in person, and to learn and reimagine our history. Her recent, Lesbian Mapping Project has become an international success, and has programmed events like Power Snatch, Hickeys & HJs, Plum Crazies, Dyke Bar, Lesbian Wedding, Lesbian Touch, Gay Dregs, Austin Dyke March, and more. In January of 2025, she curated Toxic Masculinity: The Old Reliable World Of David Hurles, an archival show of gay porn photographer and diarist David Hurles at MASS Gallery in Austin, TX. She is the President of the non-profit MASS Gallery in Austin, TX, and focused on making it the gayest community art space in town. She also has a collaborative art partnership with Lex Vaughn as FFTWINZ.