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Pushing the Print
[ A traveling exhibit available October, 2009]
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Bucking Tradition and Culture :
A Woman's Place
The Center for Global Affairs in Jackson, Wyoming, sponsored its second global awareness art show in an exhibit shown from July 6 to August 30, 2007 in the Center for the Arts at Jackson. The theme for 2007's exhibit showcased women's perspectives and insight into issues affecting women.
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The following are the remarks I gave as curator of the show:
The Jackson Hole Center for Global Affairs is dedicated to bringing attention to global environmental and women’s issues. This is the second art exhibition focusing on global issues that the JHCGA is sponsoring. While the 2006 exhibit concentrated on the environment, the 2007 exhibit, “Bucking Tradition and Culture: A Woman’s Place,” focuses on woman’s issues in India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Mozambique, West Africa and the Middle East. For example, aids, poverty, property rights, political rights, and access to education.
Ten artists have been invited to participate in the exhibit. Wyoming artists include Florence McEwin, Linda Ryan, Laury Lacy, and Patty McCcoy. Mary-Ann Kokoska and Jennie Kiessling are from Colorado and Wanda D. Ewing is from Nebraska. International artists included are Yoko Kamijo and Reiko Kobori from Japan and Xue Shugin from China.
The artists are asked to provide one to two works on their interpretation of the theme working in their preferred medium. Work to be exhibited includes installation work, pen and ink, glass, photomontage, etching, and drawing. The artists are free to interpret the issues facing women in these countries from their perspective of the current progress and setbacks present in these areas of the world.
The artist’s ceative interpretation of the issues facing women in these traditional cultures will help inform and expand audience awareness about those challenges. Each artist will provide a description and thoughts about working with the theme that will be available for reading at the exhibit.
Part of the exhibit is also the gathering of a number of artists in Jackson to discuss their interpretation and development of the theme with each other after the exhibit reception. Artists will also be encouraged to briefly address the audience at the opening reception.
Lili Francuz
Exhibit Curator
