Hey GURL —

First and foremost, I hope you are all safe, healthy, practicing social distancing and isolating by staying home. During these unsettling times, GMD has pivoted and adapted to the protocol and procedures set forth by the WHO and CDC on the COVID-19 global pandemic.

We have taken the following steps:

We have canceled all upcoming tours in Los Angeles and Houston, placed future tours on hold, and postponed our upcoming exhibition and workshop launches for the safety and wellbeing of our community.
Our team works remotely and will continue working remotely to help contain and mitigate the spread. We take this seriously as our team is (or has family who are) in a vulnerable group—that includes myself, since I am immunocompromised.

In this time that we cannot connect IRL, it is important to remember that the community can stay connected virtually. While many museums and art galleries are closed, we are devoted to creating and exploring virtual art experiences—like taking a virtual museum tour or hosting Instagram Live art talks with artists and curators and much more. We will continue to release fresh content on our magazine as it is critical—more than ever—to share and #supportgurlartists. We will engage more on social media to give your feeds the joy of art and focus our efforts to launch our gurl artists directory.

As we adapt and grow through these experiences, there are ways you can support us:

Tell your gurls about us.
Sign up to receive our emails.
Follow or like us on Instagram, Facebook or Twitter.
If you know or are gurl artists, share or apply to our Artists directory.
If you are financially able to, please support us by buying a sticker or giving $5 to GMD via Venmo (@dianelindquist). All orders will be shipped securely and in sanitary conditions. All proceedings support GMD efforts.

We also want to hear from you! What would you like to see from us? How can we support gurl art lovers and artists? We will continue to do our best to adapt and help support our community. Please reach out and send us an email on ways how to do so. We are grateful for the time you spend with us and hope we can push for connection during these isolated times.

We are in this together,

Diane Lindquist

COVID-19: A Note from Our Founder