Your Vision.
Your Experience.
Your Voice.
If you are a woman working as an artist and consider yourself to be part of the larger global dialog about feminine psyche, identity, value, politics, and worldview as explored through your art, writing and creative projects ~ I want to see your work!
The Woman on Woman Project is conceived as a limited edition art book and exhibition featuring women from around the globe working as artists, exploring, expressing, pursuing aspects of feminine identity – past, present, future – through their artwork. Alongside images and artwork are poetry, essays and various forms of expression that tell the story of the evolution of feminine identity and expression in all its many forms. This project will have a corresponding website with slide show, stories and other media.
The Woman on Woman Project is subject to evolutionary shifts as I allow the organic nature of receiving materials, visuals and information define and transform the Woman on Woman project in development.
The initial process of collecting images into a data base for review will be a gathering stage, allowing what comes my way to determine how the global story is told.
Venus-of-Willendorf pre history
The Woman on Woman Project is an exploration the emergent shift in feminine identity and the rapid redefinition of what it now means to be a woman expressed, valued and perceived on both a personal and global level. This has often been referred to as the “return of the Goddess” and re-emergence of the Divine Feminine following 500 years of subjugation by the patriarchy … so the mythology goes.
Evolution begins within not only the individual, but the specific group rumbling to evolve and re-define themselves, many from oppression and poverty. Western woman, although potent beacons, do not hold the key to the evolutionary process among the emergent transformation of women around the world. All transformation begins within as women evolve from within their unique cultural experience. That said, there is a common thread of humanity despite culturally expressed and lived differences.
Throughout the history of Western Art, images of the feminine muse, wife, mother, goddess, queen, lover, sister have been presented through the perspective of the male artist primarily for the viewing pleasure of the male patron.
Manet's infamous Olympia, 1863
The rapid deconstruction of feminine roles and identity in the West has caused crisis after crisis as the line between fantasy and reality are blurred and what is deemed “beautiful” has shifted to the point where we watch our daughters suffer even as we come to terms with a new definition beauty based upon our deeper identity as human beings on our ever-shrinking planet.
While women in the west are dealing with role deconstruction, power shifts and taking on a powerful feminine identity ~ women around the world are still being brutalized by antiquated government and religious systems and, women and children are needlessly starving due to the world power imbalances. Now more than ever there is a rise in global leadership and service as these issues are brought to the fore. Art and creative human expression can bring light to the murkiness… can bring hope, enlightenment, deeper understanding …
The Woman on Woman Project will focus upon a woman’s dialog with herself and humanity through images and artwork, how she views herself both personally and collectively, and how this inner dialog generates a new cultural dialog. My vision is to enlighten and align humanity.
Individually and Collectively …
How do we look?
Identity, Perspective …
How do we feel about life, love, work, family…?
How do we celebrate, contemplate, generate?
What inspires us?
What haunts us?
What are our dreams?
What about our daughters and sons?
How do we love?
How do we see – ourselves, others?
How do we serve?
Our collective global perspective has put us in close alliance with women and issues of women worldwide and we are forever and continuously transformed as we reach across cultures to extend help and resources. The potential exchange here is wide and deep. I am looking forward to what evolves.
Join me! Teach me! Show me! How are you exploring and grappling with issues of identity through your art? What do you have to say – to reveal through your work – about yourself, your place in the world, your perspective …?
Initial Stage :: Research the work of global female artists, and Review Images and Information — plus ongoing call …
Women working as Artists
Fee :: Free
Subject Matter :: Woman, the feminine image, issues of identity, inquiry, self portraiture, conceptual, abstract, figurative
Media :: Across all media – bring it on – painting, photography, video, music, poetry, essays, spoken word, mixed media, sculpture, et al
Include :: Artist Statement and Bio, including your Vision – your Voice
Video :: Send me a 3-minute video – telling me about your vision. What Inspires You?
Release Statement – signed permission for me to use images and any parameters you have
This project is open to all women-working as artists regardless of race, sexual orientation or gender identity.
Stacey C.
send to :: stacey.cavin (at) aol (dot) com with “Woman on Woman Project” in the subject line
Please see my book Being a women.
Regards.
Gogi Saroj Pal
Hi Stacey,
Stop on by the fine art studio at http://www.samerjan.com as well as my wearable art jewelry site at http://www.moonglowcafe.com . All woman, all the time just beautifying the planet one collector at a time. Have a great Saturday!
Creatively Yours,
Michelle Samerjan
Gogi, I would love to see your work! Send it along to me please. I LOVE the image of your Gravatar!
warmest,
Stacey
Hi Stacey I want to invite you to see my artwork. You can see it in my web http://www.wendypietsch.com.ar.
Warm regards.
Wendy
My inspiration is the mystery of creation. In my mixed media series I explore this mystery by enabling nature’s influence on my paint and media. Winter’s freezing temperatures provide the chance to freeze paint, elicit frost crystals and create a unique kind of crackle in frozen polymer mediums. Summer’s heat in the deserts of NM, reveal other opportunities by fast drying and splitting paint. My current mixed media series, Joyous Elements: Red-Gold, evokes nature’s creative forces through acrylic paint, a variety of polymer mediums, torn tree-fiber paper and silk sari thread. Gold and red paint, paper, splatters and translucent flows of media suggest energy, light, inchoate forms, airy and/or watery passages.
I was born in Israel to parents from Poland & Bulgaria and later raised in west suburban Boston. Incidentally, I am currently researching material & soliciting artists for a book about accidental procedure and artistic inspiration. I would very much like to be part of your project!
Forgot to mention there is a link on my website to a short video of me demonstrating my technique to the public. Look for it in under the Workshops page. Thanks!
Hallo
I want to invite you to see my artwork, You can see it in my personal web site: http://www.scultrice.it
Best wishes from the Tuscan
Bozena
Hello, Stacey
I am a young artist from China.I invite you to see my artworks, they might not be perfect, but I never stopped trying to do better, I believe that my art will not let you down eventually.
web http://yuanyuan-art1983.webnode.cn/
Sincere thanks
Yuan Yuan
Wow Artists ~ Thanks for posting your web sites here since it gives other visitors access to your work in relation to my project.
Please continue to post here – BUT – for formal submission to the Woman on Woman Project, please follow the protocol above so that I can remain organized with all of your information!
Thanks
Stacey