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Just Dropped: Our Exclusive Release with Acrylic Robotics for 3rd LGBT+ VC Summit in NY (6.5)

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LGBT+ VC
June 04, 2025

Now Available: Fortitude by Sie Douglas-Fish – Limited Edition Acrylic Print (Progress Edition)

Designed by Artists. Painted by Robots. Collected by you.

We’re proud to partner once again with Acrylic Robotics for our 2025 LGBT+ VC Summit, showcasing a special collaboration between technology and celebrating non-binary artist Sie Douglas-Fish. You purchase your very own masterpiece at https://www.acrylicrobotics.ca/product/fortitude.

This year’s collection, Place d’Armes, is a bold reflection on queer courage, abundance, and prosperity.

Fortitude, by artist Sie Douglas-Fish, is a celebration of strength, identity, and collective pride. Inspired by the dual meaning of “pride”—as both a symbol of queer history and a community of lions—this piece honors the courage it takes to be authentic and the power found in unity.

A trio of lionesses for our 3rd year, poised and forward-facing, embody shared purpose. Their forms are woven with hues drawn from LGBTQ+ flags, subtly layered to reflect the richness and diversity of queer experience. Grounded in the natural world, Fortitude affirms what Douglas-Fish expresses clearly: queerness is not an exception to nature, but an essential part of it.

You collect your painting at https://www.acrylicrobotics.ca/product/fortitude. Proceeds benefits the artists, Acrylic Robotics, and LGBT+ VC’s nonprofit programs, it’s a win-win-win.

"I was inspired by pairing the word pride in context with queer history and the homonymous lions' pride — both communities forged from courage and the collective prosperity of a common characteristic. Referencing different flags' colors, Fortitude embraces the natural world and commends with it the existence of queerness, with lions being another species where instances of different gender and sexuality are equally as nuanced and expressed. A trio of strong lionesses look onward toward a future paved by resilience."

- Sie Douglas-Fish

Sie Douglas-Fish in front of last year’s painting

About the Artist

Sie Douglas-Fish is a professional digital and analog painter and illustrator from the lands of the Secwépemc nation currently living and working in Montréal, Quebec.

An award-winning artist, Sie holds a BFA of Visual Arts and Japanese Studies from the University of Victoria. Sie is an art tutor, advocate, and lover of learning and tech. With experience in numerous group and solo gallery shows, Sie is helping Acrylic pioneer the future of art one stroke at a time.