QThink Art Collective collection

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2023

Descriptive Summary

Title: QThink Art Collective collection

Dates: 1979-1994

Collection Number: 2009-03

Creator/Collector:

Extent: .4 linear feet (1 manuscript box)

Repository: GLBT Historical Society

San Francisco, California 94103

Abstract: QThink was a graphic arts collective founded in San Francisco in 1990. In a document found in the collection, QThink is described as “a group of individuals who create queer and HIV activist art” and as having been formed by “former members of the Propaganda Committee of ACT UP San Francisco.” The collection includes documentation of QThink’s creative output, including postcards, mockups, posters, and correspondence. Also included are photographic slides documenting LGBT protests in the late 1970s and early 1980s, including by Daniel Nicoletta.

Language of Material: English

Access

Collection is open for research.

Publication Rights

Copyright to material has been transferred to the GLBT Historical Society. All requests for reproductions and/or permission to publish or quote from material must be submitted in writing to the GLBT Historical Society Archivist.

Preferred Citation

[Identification of item]. QThink Art Collective collection. Collection Number: 2009-03. GLBT Historical Society

Acquisition Information

Gift of Edward Berrones, May 12, 2009.

Scope and Content of Collection

QThink was a graphic arts collective founded in San Francisco in 1990. In a document found in the collection, QThink is described as “a group of individuals who create queer and HIV activist art” and as having been formed by “former members of the Propaganda Committee of ACT UP San Francisco.” The collection includes documentation of QThink’s creative output, including postcards, mockups, posters, and correspondence. Also included are photographic slides documenting LGBT protests in the late 1970s and early 1980s, including by Daniel Nicoletta.