John Keasler
Pronouns: He/Him
Title: Co-Chair, Art of Pride
Organization: San Diego Pride
Bio: John Carlos Keasler is currently Co-Chair of the Art of Pride program at San Diego Pride. His creative interests were encouraged by a seamstress mother, a carpenter father, a quilting grandmother and a blacksmith grandfather. John served as Vice President and Exhibition Coordinator of AIDS Art Alive, the Peer Advocate Coordinator and Trainer for AIDS service agency Being Alive, Vice President and Quality Assurance Chair of the San Diego HIV Consumer Council, and as a Board Member of San Diego Pozabilities. As an artist, John works in several media including pencil, paint, collage, carving and assemblage. For the past eleven years he has enjoyed hand modeling ceramic pieces. He recently completed a two-person show at the Pt. Loma Library which featured 20 of his ceramic creations. John is also part of the Visual AIDS Archive in New York City and contributes to their annual fund raisers. For 29 years John has been the creative artist of the County of San Diego A. Brad Truax Award.
Speaking at: Queer Art as Activism