Reception: January 10, 7 - 9pm
The year 2020 marks 100 years of Women’s Right to Vote in the United States. The American suffragette story, while ultimately successful, is not without failures and criticism. Now, 100 years later, we are experiencing a marked awareness of and spread towards social equality and related issues across genders, ethnicity, beliefs and preferences. Women Eco Artists Dialog (WEAD) is a strong example of women creatives coming together to share and provide opportunities for female identified artists working with ecological and social justice content. In this regard we are holding our Feat to the Fire. That is, we are employing art as a means to fulfill the promise of having our voices count.
Exhibition juror, Jan Rindfleisch has focused on community building as an artist,
educator, curator and author. From 1978 to 1985, she taught art and art history at
De Anza College, and in 1979 began a 32 year journey as executive director/curator
of The Euphrat Museum of Art in Cupertino, California. She is the author of Roots
and Offshoots: Silicon Valley’s Arts Community, 2017; and co-author of Creative
Power: The Art and Activism of Ruth Tunstall Grant, 2019. Both books are published
by Ginger Press.
Women Eco Artists Dialog (WEAD) is a 501c3 non-profit founded in 1996 by Jo
Hanson, Susan Leibovitz Steinman and Estelle Akamine with these goals in mind:
To provide information regarding the ecoart and social justice art fields to artists,
curators, writers, art and public art administrators, educators in art and ecology,
cross-disciplinary professionals and others; To facilitate international networking
among artists working with ecological and social justice issues; To further the fields
of, and the understanding of environmental and social justice art.
weadartists.org
Remedios Rapoport's Tax the Rich Poster Distribution Installation will give 100 free Tax the Rich/End War/LiveLove posters, printed from an original pencil drawing wrapped with a smaller Gentle Revolution Manifesto poster, to veiwers.
A continuous thread throughout my life, since childhood, has been the goal to
mobilize acts of positive change. By tailoring my art career to gain skills for promoting
messages with beautifully crafted work, it now adds my voice to the ecological and
social justice work of so many other activist and visionaries.
In 2006, I wrote The Gentle Revolution Manifesto to articulate the values I strive
to support within my varied works of paintings, painted sculptures or installations.
Beyond engaging viewers with lush visual experiences, my work aims to stimulate the
viewers’ minds and catalyze social change through positive ideology.
The Gentle Revolution Poster Distribution Installation evolved as a means to present
my original art as posters. Allowing people to take them and share them with others
as a contemporary version of the historical handbills created for social change in the
past. With a love of letterforms and 40 years of sign painting, my work has created a
new genre referred to as Word Portraits. I am honored to participate in this exhibition
that creates connection from the Suffragettes of 100 years ago to the social justice
work of today. Through my art, my voice as an activist is present.
EXHIBITING ARTISTS
Celia Anderson, Kenai, Alaska
Salma Arastu, Berkeley, California
Kathryn Bagwell, Dallas, Texas
Jenny Balisle, Richmond, California
Barbara Boissevain, Palo Alto, California
Heidi Brueckner, Oakland, California
Belinda Chlouber, San Mateo, California
Alice Dubiel, Seattle, Washington
Rebecca Finley, The Woodlands, Texas
Elizabeth Kenneday, Reno, Nevada
Deborah Kennedy, San José, California
Kari Kollars, Safford, Arizona
Linda MacDonald, Willits, California
Robin Mullery, Palo Alto, California
Renée Owen, Sebastopol, California
Bonnie Peterson, Houghton, Michigan
Shelby Poor, Canoga Park, California
Remedios Rapoport, Portland, Oregon
Robin Repp, Huntington Beach, California
Maryam Safanasab, El Cerrito, California
Lorna Stevens, San Francisco, California
Jensen Twite, Tea, South Dakota
Tammy West, Austin, Texas
Xue Jiao Yu, Chicago, Illinois
