I received the Curatorial Award for Women’s History Month at the Sarah Doyle Gallery at Brown University in Providence, RI. I chose 24 women artists for this exhibition “Views from the Edge: Women, Gender and Politics”. The exhibition runs from March 2 to 28, 2015.
Click here for the Exhibition Catalog. This feminist exhibition features the art of 24 women artists raising their voices to advocate for gender equality, women’s rights, and social justice. Works in all media range from the poetic to the psychological, from the personal to the political, and from representational to the abstract. These expressions provoke, dramatize, and challenge assumptions about women’s lives in today’s global society. How is women’s identity defined, controlled, and supported when it comes to politics, reproductive rights, and self-expression? Why is violence against women so common? Why are women’s lives so difficult even now in the 21st. century? This show asks the viewer to look critically at the boundaries and barriers to women’s rights, to celebrate the wonderful differences that women make in both personal and public domains, and to join the fight to achieve the equality that women deserve.
The artists in this show include: Sherri Cornett, Anahi DeCanio, Cat Del Buono, Sally Edelstein, Linda Friedman Schmidt, Patricia Izzo, Marky Kauffmann, Sandra Klein, Beth Lakamp, Monica Lundy, Sarah Maple, Janice Nesser, Guerrilla Girls On Tour!, Priscilla Otani, Mervi Pakaste, Min Kim Park, Jane Peterman, Roxanne Phillips, Nora Raggio, Sinan Revell, Amanda Sawyer, Gail Smuda, Rebecca Stern, and Jennifer Weigel.
About the Sarah Doyle Gallery: The Sarah Doyle Women’s Center (SDWC), established at Brown in 1974, seeks to provide a comfortable, yet challenging place for students, faculty, and staff to examine the multitude of issues around gender. The SDWC offers programs and services for all members of the Brown community, and is a site for research into and exploration of gender issues that extend into and beyond the classroom. The Sarah Doyle Women’s Center and the LGBTQ Center share staff and resources to support students around issues of gender and sexuality.