Adrienne Louise Fuzee (May 16, 1950 – May 18, 2003) was an American artist, curator, gallerist, editor, poet, and activist, based in California.
Early life and education
Fuzee was born in
Los Angeles
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, the daughter of Lawrence Fuzee and Beulah Francis Fuzee. Her parents were both born in
Louisiana
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El Camino College
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San Diego
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, "Primal Edge" (1994) at SOMAR Gallery, "San Diego Contemporary Art" at the Yokohama Citizens Gallery, "Techno Art" at the Spectrum Gallery in San Francisco, "Torch and Anvil" (1989) at the San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery, "Contempo Lesbos" (1998) at Queer Arts Resource in San Francisco, "Sheets in the Wind: A History of the Poster in the LGBT Community" (2002) at the Hormel Center,
San Francisco Public Library
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.
Fuzee was president of the City of San Francisco Art Commission Gallery Advisory Board. She co-edited a journal of criticism, ''Unsolicited Commentary'', with Garland Kyle. She taught at the
San Francisco Art Institute
San Francisco Art Institute (SFAI) was a Private college, private art school, college of contemporary art in San Francisco, California. Founded in 1871, SFAI was one of the oldest art schools in the United States and the oldest west of the Mis ...
. She was one of the founding directors of the
Queer Cultural Center
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It is also known as the San Francisco Lesbian and Gay Center for Art and Culture.
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and founder and co-chair of Lesbians in the Visual Arts. She was community organizer for the Harvey Milk Center in 1980. In 1990 she was curator of Berkeley's Zocalo Gallery. Fuzee also wrote poetry and gave poetry readings in San Francisco.
Personal life and legacy
Fuzee's partner was Lisa Kahaleole Hall.
Diabetes
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became a serious health concern in her last years, as she lost vision in one eye, and her lower leg was amputated. She died in
Oakland
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in 2003, two days after her 53rd birthday, from heart failure. Her papers are in the
GLBT Historical Society
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in San Francisco. Fuzee is one of the figures included in
Jon Macy
Jon Macy is a gay American cartoonist. He is best known for his graphic novel ''DJUNA: The Extraordinary Life of Djuna Barnes'', a biography of the beautiful and irascible Modernist author. His graphic novel ''Teleny and Camille'' won a 2010 Lamb ...
and Avery Cassell's ''The Butch Lesbians of the '50s, '60s, and '70s Coloring Book'' (2018).