Spotlighting 6 inspiring lesbian artists who are challenging the traditional confines of gender and reshaping what femininity looks like. Curated by Sophia Wallace @sophiawallaceartist @jebmedia A self-proclaimed “radical lesbian feminist,” Joan E. Biren has been a pioneer in lesbian visibility through her photography, notably her book Eye to Eye: Portraits of Lesbians which she self-published in 1979. @chitraganeshbkny Brooklyn-based artist Chitra Ganesh creates drawings and paintings that combine American and South Asian influences, exploring themes of femininity, sexuality, and power. @christinaluciagiuffrida_ Characterized by her depictions of purple women, Christina Giuffrida’s works explore the liberation of women’s bodies from the sexualized lens placed on them by society, expanding the definition of what it means to be a woman. @ellechien: Through visual and written mediums, Le’Andra LeSeur explores themes of identity, family, Black grief and joy, the experience of invisibility, and what it means to take up space as a queer Black woman. @hilaryharkness: Hillary Harkness’s paintings place LGBTQ and BIPOC people front and center in her own historical reimaginings and alternate realities, confronting oppression and prejudice through her work. Harkness’s latest project, “Prisoners from the Front”, is currently being exhibited at @ppowgallery. @patricia_cronin Patricia Cronin is an internationally-recognized, Brooklyn-based artist. Her sculpture “Memorial to a Marriage” is the first and only Marriage Equality monument in the world, depicting the artist and her now-wife in a time when gay marriage was illegal in the United States. About the curator @sophiawallaceartist: Meet Sophia Wallace (born in 1978, in NYC), a visionary artist working in the fraught territory of bodies and ethics. If you know the complete anatomy of the clitoris, there is a good chance it is because of the activist artist’s viral project ‘CLITERACY’. For eleven years, Sophia has sculpted, sketched, pasted, inflated and spoken the clitoris into indelible presence. She lives in Brooklyn with her wife and feminist son. 📸 For more #FeministArtFeatures visit @art.feminist
Spotlighting 6 inspiring lesbian artists who are challenging the traditional confines of gender and reshaping what femininity looks like. Curated by Sophia Wallace @sophiawallaceartist @jebmedia A self-proclaimed “radical lesbian feminist,” Joan E. Biren has been a pioneer in lesbian visibility through her photography, notably her book Eye to Eye: Portraits of Lesbians which she self-published in 1979. @chitraganeshbkny Brooklyn-based artist Chitra Ganesh creates drawings and paintings that combine American and South Asian influences, exploring themes of femininity, sexuality, and power. @christinaluciagiuffrida_ Characterized by her depictions of purple women, Christina Giuffrida’s works explore the liberation of women’s bodies from the sexualized lens placed on them by society, expanding the definition of what it means to be a woman. @ellechien: Through visual and written mediums, Le’Andra LeSeur explores themes of identity, family, Black grief and joy, the experience of invisibility, and what it means to take up space as a queer Black woman. @hilaryharkness: Hillary Harkness’s paintings place LGBTQ and BIPOC people front and center in her own historical reimaginings and alternate realities, confronting oppression and prejudice through her work. Harkness’s latest project, “Prisoners from the Front”, is currently being exhibited at @ppowgallery. @patricia_cronin Patricia Cronin is an internationally-recognized, Brooklyn-based artist. Her sculpture “Memorial to a Marriage” is the first and only Marriage Equality monument in the world, depicting the artist and her now-wife in a time when gay marriage was illegal in the United States. About the curator @sophiawallaceartist: Meet Sophia Wallace (born in 1978, in NYC), a visionary artist working in the fraught territory of bodies and ethics. If you know the complete anatomy of the clitoris, there is a good chance it is because of the activist artist’s viral project ‘CLITERACY’. For eleven years, Sophia has sculpted, sketched, pasted, inflated and spoken the clitoris into indelible presence. She lives in Brooklyn with her wife and feminist son. 📸 For more #FeministArtFeatures visit @art.feminist
Spotlighting 6 inspiring lesbian artists who are challenging the traditional confines of gender and reshaping what femininity looks like. Curated by Sophia Wallace @sophiawallaceartist @jebmedia A self-proclaimed “radical lesbian feminist,” Joan E. Biren has been a pioneer in lesbian visibility through her photography, notably her book Eye to Eye: Portraits of Lesbians which she self-published in 1979. @chitraganeshbkny Brooklyn-based artist Chitra Ganesh creates drawings and paintings that combine American and South Asian influences, exploring themes of femininity, sexuality, and power. @christinaluciagiuffrida_ Characterized by her depictions of purple women, Christina Giuffrida’s works explore the liberation of women’s bodies from the sexualized lens placed on them by society, expanding the definition of what it means to be a woman. @ellechien: Through visual and written mediums, Le’Andra LeSeur explores themes of identity, family, Black grief and joy, the experience of invisibility, and what it means to take up space as a queer Black woman. @hilaryharkness: Hillary Harkness’s paintings place LGBTQ and BIPOC people front and center in her own historical reimaginings and alternate realities, confronting oppression and prejudice through her work. Harkness’s latest project, “Prisoners from the Front”, is currently being exhibited at @ppowgallery. @patricia_cronin Patricia Cronin is an internationally-recognized, Brooklyn-based artist. Her sculpture “Memorial to a Marriage” is the first and only Marriage Equality monument in the world, depicting the artist and her now-wife in a time when gay marriage was illegal in the United States. About the curator @sophiawallaceartist: Meet Sophia Wallace (born in 1978, in NYC), a visionary artist working in the fraught territory of bodies and ethics. If you know the complete anatomy of the clitoris, there is a good chance it is because of the activist artist’s viral project ‘CLITERACY’. For eleven years, Sophia has sculpted, sketched, pasted, inflated and spoken the clitoris into indelible presence. She lives in Brooklyn with her wife and feminist son. 📸 For more #FeministArtFeatures visit @art.feminist
Spotlighting 6 inspiring lesbian artists who are challenging the traditional confines of gender and reshaping what femininity looks like. Curated by Sophia Wallace @sophiawallaceartist @jebmedia A self-proclaimed “radical lesbian feminist,” Joan E. Biren has been a pioneer in lesbian visibility through her photography, notably her book Eye to Eye: Portraits of Lesbians which she self-published in 1979. @chitraganeshbkny Brooklyn-based artist Chitra Ganesh creates drawings and paintings that combine American and South Asian influences, exploring themes of femininity, sexuality, and power. @christinaluciagiuffrida_ Characterized by her depictions of purple women, Christina Giuffrida’s works explore the liberation of women’s bodies from the sexualized lens placed on them by society, expanding the definition of what it means to be a woman. @ellechien: Through visual and written mediums, Le’Andra LeSeur explores themes of identity, family, Black grief and joy, the experience of invisibility, and what it means to take up space as a queer Black woman. @hilaryharkness: Hillary Harkness’s paintings place LGBTQ and BIPOC people front and center in her own historical reimaginings and alternate realities, confronting oppression and prejudice through her work. Harkness’s latest project, “Prisoners from the Front”, is currently being exhibited at @ppowgallery. @patricia_cronin Patricia Cronin is an internationally-recognized, Brooklyn-based artist. Her sculpture “Memorial to a Marriage” is the first and only Marriage Equality monument in the world, depicting the artist and her now-wife in a time when gay marriage was illegal in the United States. About the curator @sophiawallaceartist: Meet Sophia Wallace (born in 1978, in NYC), a visionary artist working in the fraught territory of bodies and ethics. If you know the complete anatomy of the clitoris, there is a good chance it is because of the activist artist’s viral project ‘CLITERACY’. For eleven years, Sophia has sculpted, sketched, pasted, inflated and spoken the clitoris into indelible presence. She lives in Brooklyn with her wife and feminist son. 📸 For more #FeministArtFeatures visit @art.feminist
Spotlighting 6 inspiring lesbian artists who are challenging the traditional confines of gender and reshaping what femininity looks like. Curated by Sophia Wallace @sophiawallaceartist @jebmedia A self-proclaimed “radical lesbian feminist,” Joan E. Biren has been a pioneer in lesbian visibility through her photography, notably her book Eye to Eye: Portraits of Lesbians which she self-published in 1979. @chitraganeshbkny Brooklyn-based artist Chitra Ganesh creates drawings and paintings that combine American and South Asian influences, exploring themes of femininity, sexuality, and power. @christinaluciagiuffrida_ Characterized by her depictions of purple women, Christina Giuffrida’s works explore the liberation of women’s bodies from the sexualized lens placed on them by society, expanding the definition of what it means to be a woman. @ellechien: Through visual and written mediums, Le’Andra LeSeur explores themes of identity, family, Black grief and joy, the experience of invisibility, and what it means to take up space as a queer Black woman. @hilaryharkness: Hillary Harkness’s paintings place LGBTQ and BIPOC people front and center in her own historical reimaginings and alternate realities, confronting oppression and prejudice through her work. Harkness’s latest project, “Prisoners from the Front”, is currently being exhibited at @ppowgallery. @patricia_cronin Patricia Cronin is an internationally-recognized, Brooklyn-based artist. Her sculpture “Memorial to a Marriage” is the first and only Marriage Equality monument in the world, depicting the artist and her now-wife in a time when gay marriage was illegal in the United States. About the curator @sophiawallaceartist: Meet Sophia Wallace (born in 1978, in NYC), a visionary artist working in the fraught territory of bodies and ethics. If you know the complete anatomy of the clitoris, there is a good chance it is because of the activist artist’s viral project ‘CLITERACY’. For eleven years, Sophia has sculpted, sketched, pasted, inflated and spoken the clitoris into indelible presence. She lives in Brooklyn with her wife and feminist son. 📸 For more #FeministArtFeatures visit @art.feminist
Spotlighting 6 inspiring lesbian artists who are challenging the traditional confines of gender and reshaping what femininity looks like. Curated by Sophia Wallace @sophiawallaceartist @jebmedia A self-proclaimed “radical lesbian feminist,” Joan E. Biren has been a pioneer in lesbian visibility through her photography, notably her book Eye to Eye: Portraits of Lesbians which she self-published in 1979. @chitraganeshbkny Brooklyn-based artist Chitra Ganesh creates drawings and paintings that combine American and South Asian influences, exploring themes of femininity, sexuality, and power. @christinaluciagiuffrida_ Characterized by her depictions of purple women, Christina Giuffrida’s works explore the liberation of women’s bodies from the sexualized lens placed on them by society, expanding the definition of what it means to be a woman. @ellechien: Through visual and written mediums, Le’Andra LeSeur explores themes of identity, family, Black grief and joy, the experience of invisibility, and what it means to take up space as a queer Black woman. @hilaryharkness: Hillary Harkness’s paintings place LGBTQ and BIPOC people front and center in her own historical reimaginings and alternate realities, confronting oppression and prejudice through her work. Harkness’s latest project, “Prisoners from the Front”, is currently being exhibited at @ppowgallery. @patricia_cronin Patricia Cronin is an internationally-recognized, Brooklyn-based artist. Her sculpture “Memorial to a Marriage” is the first and only Marriage Equality monument in the world, depicting the artist and her now-wife in a time when gay marriage was illegal in the United States. About the curator @sophiawallaceartist: Meet Sophia Wallace (born in 1978, in NYC), a visionary artist working in the fraught territory of bodies and ethics. If you know the complete anatomy of the clitoris, there is a good chance it is because of the activist artist’s viral project ‘CLITERACY’. For eleven years, Sophia has sculpted, sketched, pasted, inflated and spoken the clitoris into indelible presence. She lives in Brooklyn with her wife and feminist son. 📸 For more #FeministArtFeatures visit @art.feminist
Spotlighting 6 inspiring lesbian artists who are challenging the traditional confines of gender and reshaping what femininity looks like. Curated by Sophia Wallace @sophiawallaceartist @jebmedia A self-proclaimed “radical lesbian feminist,” Joan E. Biren has been a pioneer in lesbian visibility through her photography, notably her book Eye to Eye: Portraits of Lesbians which she self-published in 1979. @chitraganeshbkny Brooklyn-based artist Chitra Ganesh creates drawings and paintings that combine American and South Asian influences, exploring themes of femininity, sexuality, and power. @christinaluciagiuffrida_ Characterized by her depictions of purple women, Christina Giuffrida’s works explore the liberation of women’s bodies from the sexualized lens placed on them by society, expanding the definition of what it means to be a woman. @ellechien: Through visual and written mediums, Le’Andra LeSeur explores themes of identity, family, Black grief and joy, the experience of invisibility, and what it means to take up space as a queer Black woman. @hilaryharkness: Hillary Harkness’s paintings place LGBTQ and BIPOC people front and center in her own historical reimaginings and alternate realities, confronting oppression and prejudice through her work. Harkness’s latest project, “Prisoners from the Front”, is currently being exhibited at @ppowgallery. @patricia_cronin Patricia Cronin is an internationally-recognized, Brooklyn-based artist. Her sculpture “Memorial to a Marriage” is the first and only Marriage Equality monument in the world, depicting the artist and her now-wife in a time when gay marriage was illegal in the United States. About the curator @sophiawallaceartist: Meet Sophia Wallace (born in 1978, in NYC), a visionary artist working in the fraught territory of bodies and ethics. If you know the complete anatomy of the clitoris, there is a good chance it is because of the activist artist’s viral project ‘CLITERACY’. For eleven years, Sophia has sculpted, sketched, pasted, inflated and spoken the clitoris into indelible presence. She lives in Brooklyn with her wife and feminist son. 📸 For more #FeministArtFeatures visit @art.feminist
I am overjoyed to announce my first collection of “Unconquerable” necklaces in solid 14k gold. The collection includes rose, yellow & white gold, with and without gemstones. I’m wearing the gemstone prototype in rose gold with a deep aqua sapphire. I have been working on this collection for years. My dad’s encouragement to keep elevating the quality and aesthetic of my jewelry has been a constant source of encouragement, pushing me forward. Also invaluable is the steadfast support of my collectors, small and large, and my wonderful clients. Thanks to all of you for making this great leap possible. For more information, pictures and to reserve a necklace, visit: https://yescliteracy.com/
Leaving New York City. #lifechanges #gradschool #mfa #backtoschool #lifelonglearner #lifelonglearning #umassamherst #artistlifestyle #brooklynartist
The Disappearance of Shere Hite is now streaming. 📺 🗄️🔥 To recap, 5 reasons to watch this film now: 1. The story! ☕️ 🫖 Tea is served and its piping hot. 2. The aesthetics! Shot by cinemagrapher @rosefromthewoods the film is a stylistic marvel, interweaving a library of portraits by photographers like @irisbrosch that tell the story of an intellectual who was iconically femme, in a world that both demanded and derided it. 3. The archive! Shere Hite was fastidious in her record keeping. She required a tape copy of all TV appearances she gave. Posthumously and through the meticulous work of @ericafink and @kim.ferdinando these materials fell into the most capable hands of @nicolenewnham and @eileenmmmm the rest is @sundanceorg history. 4. The dangers of cancel culture! If the author of ‘the 40th most successful book of all time’ can be disappeared from cultural memory in their own life time, how do we protect the radical ideas, especially from marginalized thinkers, from suffering the same fate? 5. The chance to explore the span of Hite’s ideas and to decide for ourselves if they reflect a screaming silence of prohibited truth or if they are baseless arguments pulled from fake data. What do you think? #archives #poeticjustice #corrective #sexuality #sundance #censorship
Thank you for including my voice @allartstv How To Begin Again… And Again… According to Artists by All Arts Staff The artistic path contains many points of transition. Sometimes these moments are subtle, like shifting weight between feet. Others can be so obvious that they cleave a rupture between the before and after. No matter how big the switch, change can bring clarity, new purpose, surprising turns and deeper understanding — and maybe even some anxiety, if we’re being honest. We asked eight artists from various disciplines how they’ve navigated transitions and shifts throughout their careers. Below, you’ll find artists who have moved across industries, modes and even the country. “At 45, I’m going back to school to pursue my M.F.A. Why start over when I already have two decades behind me as a working artist? Why go backwards? Because … of the glorious opportunity to begin again, this time with significantly more awareness of how precious the opportunity is. By necessity, working artists must pitch ourselves for funding and residency applications that sustain our practices. Even when we secretly hate what we are making in the studio, it is still a necessity to chirp away excitedly on social media. I don’t feel that I have all the answers or that I am satisfied with everything I make. I am elated that I get to be in the role of a student again, not expected to know, allowed to flounder and f*** up. The grace of this is stunning to me. Even more so as a mother, who lives with the unspoken social demand that I justify every action with utility for my family — it feels even more miraculous to enter this period of sustained exploration.” Conceptual artist, photographer and, once more, student Sophia Wallace http://sophiawallace.art Article here: https://www.allarts.org/2024/04/how-to-begin-again/ Photo by @maravilhosajenniffer
These sculptures are forever connected with postpartum and the pandemic for me. I gave birth a week before the NYC lockdown. Struggling with PTSD from my birth and PPD, I had some very intimate encounters with despair. And yet life is full of surprises. In this time, I was notified that I was a recipient of a fellowship that I hadn’t even known I was in the running for. It was a 10k grant with no strings attached from @lovecrave Foundation that recognized the work I had already done! This unexpected resource allowed me to begin a new body of work, that became 🦢 series. Continuing to create in my studio helped me stay tethered to sense of self (which motherhood in America seemed determined to obliterate). And that is not all the good that came to me. Through the kindness of an artist friend (@katefauvell thank you) I was filmed for a TV program about artists during the pandemic. Working closely with the incredible filmmakers @lizziesarge @cyprianfilms and show host @safayaks renewed my sense of connection to my community. This was life affirming after months of isolation not only due to covid but also the requirements of postpartum. I can’t understate how much these blessings and friendships sustained me in this time. I am forever grateful. 🧿🫀🇬🇷☄️🫂🫂🫂🫂
These sculptures are forever connected with postpartum and the pandemic for me. I gave birth a week before the NYC lockdown. Struggling with PTSD from my birth and PPD, I had some very intimate encounters with despair. And yet life is full of surprises. In this time, I was notified that I was a recipient of a fellowship that I hadn’t even known I was in the running for. It was a 10k grant with no strings attached from @lovecrave Foundation that recognized the work I had already done! This unexpected resource allowed me to begin a new body of work, that became 🦢 series. Continuing to create in my studio helped me stay tethered to sense of self (which motherhood in America seemed determined to obliterate). And that is not all the good that came to me. Through the kindness of an artist friend (@katefauvell thank you) I was filmed for a TV program about artists during the pandemic. Working closely with the incredible filmmakers @lizziesarge @cyprianfilms and show host @safayaks renewed my sense of connection to my community. This was life affirming after months of isolation not only due to covid but also the requirements of postpartum. I can’t understate how much these blessings and friendships sustained me in this time. I am forever grateful. 🧿🫀🇬🇷☄️🫂🫂🫂🫂
These sculptures are forever connected with postpartum and the pandemic for me. I gave birth a week before the NYC lockdown. Struggling with PTSD from my birth and PPD, I had some very intimate encounters with despair. And yet life is full of surprises. In this time, I was notified that I was a recipient of a fellowship that I hadn’t even known I was in the running for. It was a 10k grant with no strings attached from @lovecrave Foundation that recognized the work I had already done! This unexpected resource allowed me to begin a new body of work, that became 🦢 series. Continuing to create in my studio helped me stay tethered to sense of self (which motherhood in America seemed determined to obliterate). And that is not all the good that came to me. Through the kindness of an artist friend (@katefauvell thank you) I was filmed for a TV program about artists during the pandemic. Working closely with the incredible filmmakers @lizziesarge @cyprianfilms and show host @safayaks renewed my sense of connection to my community. This was life affirming after months of isolation not only due to covid but also the requirements of postpartum. I can’t understate how much these blessings and friendships sustained me in this time. I am forever grateful. 🧿🫀🇬🇷☄️🫂🫂🫂🫂
These sculptures are forever connected with postpartum and the pandemic for me. I gave birth a week before the NYC lockdown. Struggling with PTSD from my birth and PPD, I had some very intimate encounters with despair. And yet life is full of surprises. In this time, I was notified that I was a recipient of a fellowship that I hadn’t even known I was in the running for. It was a 10k grant with no strings attached from @lovecrave Foundation that recognized the work I had already done! This unexpected resource allowed me to begin a new body of work, that became 🦢 series. Continuing to create in my studio helped me stay tethered to sense of self (which motherhood in America seemed determined to obliterate). And that is not all the good that came to me. Through the kindness of an artist friend (@katefauvell thank you) I was filmed for a TV program about artists during the pandemic. Working closely with the incredible filmmakers @lizziesarge @cyprianfilms and show host @safayaks renewed my sense of connection to my community. This was life affirming after months of isolation not only due to covid but also the requirements of postpartum. I can’t understate how much these blessings and friendships sustained me in this time. I am forever grateful. 🧿🫀🇬🇷☄️🫂🫂🫂🫂
These sculptures are forever connected with postpartum and the pandemic for me. I gave birth a week before the NYC lockdown. Struggling with PTSD from my birth and PPD, I had some very intimate encounters with despair. And yet life is full of surprises. In this time, I was notified that I was a recipient of a fellowship that I hadn’t even known I was in the running for. It was a 10k grant with no strings attached from @lovecrave Foundation that recognized the work I had already done! This unexpected resource allowed me to begin a new body of work, that became 🦢 series. Continuing to create in my studio helped me stay tethered to sense of self (which motherhood in America seemed determined to obliterate). And that is not all the good that came to me. Through the kindness of an artist friend (@katefauvell thank you) I was filmed for a TV program about artists during the pandemic. Working closely with the incredible filmmakers @lizziesarge @cyprianfilms and show host @safayaks renewed my sense of connection to my community. This was life affirming after months of isolation not only due to covid but also the requirements of postpartum. I can’t understate how much these blessings and friendships sustained me in this time. I am forever grateful. 🧿🫀🇬🇷☄️🫂🫂🫂🫂
These sculptures are forever connected with postpartum and the pandemic for me. I gave birth a week before the NYC lockdown. Struggling with PTSD from my birth and PPD, I had some very intimate encounters with despair. And yet life is full of surprises. In this time, I was notified that I was a recipient of a fellowship that I hadn’t even known I was in the running for. It was a 10k grant with no strings attached from @lovecrave Foundation that recognized the work I had already done! This unexpected resource allowed me to begin a new body of work, that became 🦢 series. Continuing to create in my studio helped me stay tethered to sense of self (which motherhood in America seemed determined to obliterate). And that is not all the good that came to me. Through the kindness of an artist friend (@katefauvell thank you) I was filmed for a TV program about artists during the pandemic. Working closely with the incredible filmmakers @lizziesarge @cyprianfilms and show host @safayaks renewed my sense of connection to my community. This was life affirming after months of isolation not only due to covid but also the requirements of postpartum. I can’t understate how much these blessings and friendships sustained me in this time. I am forever grateful. 🧿🫀🇬🇷☄️🫂🫂🫂🫂
These sculptures are forever connected with postpartum and the pandemic for me. I gave birth a week before the NYC lockdown. Struggling with PTSD from my birth and PPD, I had some very intimate encounters with despair. And yet life is full of surprises. In this time, I was notified that I was a recipient of a fellowship that I hadn’t even known I was in the running for. It was a 10k grant with no strings attached from @lovecrave Foundation that recognized the work I had already done! This unexpected resource allowed me to begin a new body of work, that became 🦢 series. Continuing to create in my studio helped me stay tethered to sense of self (which motherhood in America seemed determined to obliterate). And that is not all the good that came to me. Through the kindness of an artist friend (@katefauvell thank you) I was filmed for a TV program about artists during the pandemic. Working closely with the incredible filmmakers @lizziesarge @cyprianfilms and show host @safayaks renewed my sense of connection to my community. This was life affirming after months of isolation not only due to covid but also the requirements of postpartum. I can’t understate how much these blessings and friendships sustained me in this time. I am forever grateful. 🧿🫀🇬🇷☄️🫂🫂🫂🫂
These sculptures are forever connected with postpartum and the pandemic for me. I gave birth a week before the NYC lockdown. Struggling with PTSD from my birth and PPD, I had some very intimate encounters with despair. And yet life is full of surprises. In this time, I was notified that I was a recipient of a fellowship that I hadn’t even known I was in the running for. It was a 10k grant with no strings attached from @lovecrave Foundation that recognized the work I had already done! This unexpected resource allowed me to begin a new body of work, that became 🦢 series. Continuing to create in my studio helped me stay tethered to sense of self (which motherhood in America seemed determined to obliterate). And that is not all the good that came to me. Through the kindness of an artist friend (@katefauvell thank you) I was filmed for a TV program about artists during the pandemic. Working closely with the incredible filmmakers @lizziesarge @cyprianfilms and show host @safayaks renewed my sense of connection to my community. This was life affirming after months of isolation not only due to covid but also the requirements of postpartum. I can’t understate how much these blessings and friendships sustained me in this time. I am forever grateful. 🧿🫀🇬🇷☄️🫂🫂🫂🫂
These sculptures are forever connected with postpartum and the pandemic for me. I gave birth a week before the NYC lockdown. Struggling with PTSD from my birth and PPD, I had some very intimate encounters with despair. And yet life is full of surprises. In this time, I was notified that I was a recipient of a fellowship that I hadn’t even known I was in the running for. It was a 10k grant with no strings attached from @lovecrave Foundation that recognized the work I had already done! This unexpected resource allowed me to begin a new body of work, that became 🦢 series. Continuing to create in my studio helped me stay tethered to sense of self (which motherhood in America seemed determined to obliterate). And that is not all the good that came to me. Through the kindness of an artist friend (@katefauvell thank you) I was filmed for a TV program about artists during the pandemic. Working closely with the incredible filmmakers @lizziesarge @cyprianfilms and show host @safayaks renewed my sense of connection to my community. This was life affirming after months of isolation not only due to covid but also the requirements of postpartum. I can’t understate how much these blessings and friendships sustained me in this time. I am forever grateful. 🧿🫀🇬🇷☄️🫂🫂🫂🫂
These sculptures are forever connected with postpartum and the pandemic for me. I gave birth a week before the NYC lockdown. Struggling with PTSD from my birth and PPD, I had some very intimate encounters with despair. And yet life is full of surprises. In this time, I was notified that I was a recipient of a fellowship that I hadn’t even known I was in the running for. It was a 10k grant with no strings attached from @lovecrave Foundation that recognized the work I had already done! This unexpected resource allowed me to begin a new body of work, that became 🦢 series. Continuing to create in my studio helped me stay tethered to sense of self (which motherhood in America seemed determined to obliterate). And that is not all the good that came to me. Through the kindness of an artist friend (@katefauvell thank you) I was filmed for a TV program about artists during the pandemic. Working closely with the incredible filmmakers @lizziesarge @cyprianfilms and show host @safayaks renewed my sense of connection to my community. This was life affirming after months of isolation not only due to covid but also the requirements of postpartum. I can’t understate how much these blessings and friendships sustained me in this time. I am forever grateful. 🧿🫀🇬🇷☄️🫂🫂🫂🫂
The simple pleasure of closing your eyes and feeling the warmth of the sunshine on your skin. 🌞
The simple pleasure of closing your eyes and feeling the warmth of the sunshine on your skin. 🌞
MEET OUR SPEAKERS Sophia Wallace, pioneering the clitoridian iconography, filling art’s historical void. From @ted to global exhibitions, her influence extends beyond galleries, featured in documentaries and on BBC/Hulu’s Planet Sex with @caradelevingne! Link in bio to register. #EndFGM
