¨About¨

Elliat Graney-Saucke is a multi-media artist, events organizer and cultural worker. She thematically connects her work to cultural activism with a queer and female lens and through utilizing collaboration and community to highlight art as social change.

Starting video production at age 14 through The Evergreen State College, Graney-Saucke has created a body of over 12 short films that have screened through out Europe and North America. In March 2009 her first feature film Travel Queeries premiered internationally at the British Film Institute with the London Lesbian and Gay Film Festival and is currently touring festivals.

Her next films include Boys on the Inside/BOI, a documentary about masculine ‘boy’ identity in US women’s prisons, and Blue Tuesday (and the broken riddles), a short queer fairy tale set in an abandoned hospital outside Berlin. BOI is funded by 4Culture and is screening rough cuts, complete fall 2010.

As an organizer for such festivals as the first Lady Fest (’00) and Homo-a-gogo (’02)- Olympia, WA, Elliat went on to found The Bend-It Extravaganza, Seattle’s first queer youth led arts festival (’03-current). In 2008 she acted as site coordinator for the National Performance Network’s Annual Meeting in Seattle, and 2006-present Elliat has worked extensively with the Pat Graney Company as coordinator for guest artist residencies, prison arts programing and assisting with video documentation and production (Keeping the Faith).

In addition to film, she performs as Sir La Muse, bio drag queen performance art. She is currently doing research through Goddard College on ‘Creative Survival.’

Community and arts awards include: 4Culture Individual Artists Projects, Pride Foundation Scholarship and Project Grant, Seattle Mayors Office of Arts and Cultural Affairs Youth Arts Grant, GSBA Scholarship, and Art for Social Change Award (MPowerment).

Currently Presenting Workshops on:
“Queer Media Activism”

Interviews:
Queeristics