Mixed - media artist Wangechi Mutu
explores womanhood at this year's Adderley Lecture at MassArt.
The exhibition extends a dialogue
exploring womanhood and femininity within the art world, developing this investigation through an all - encompassing approach to the natural coalescing and cross over of what has been conventionally designated as «masculine» or «feminine» in artistic practice...
Not exact matches
The purpose of my project was to unpack and
explore the phrase «biblical
womanhood» — mostly because, as a woman, the Bible's instructions and stories regarding
womanhood have always intrigued me, but also because the phrase «biblical
womanhood» is often invoked in the conservative evangelical culture to explain why women should be discouraged from working outside the home and forbidden from assuming leadership positions in the church.
They are also concerned that I presented and
explored a variety of divergent perspectives on what «biblical
womanhood» means (from Jewish, Catholic, Amish, feminist, polygamist, Christian fundamentalist and complementarian viewpoints, to name a few), including some viewpoints with which they do not agree.
And so part of the reason for
exploring everything from Leviticus 18, to Proverbs 31, to Song of Solomon, to the epistles of Peter and Paul, was to show just how much this phrase — «biblical
womanhood» — really entails, and to not take the hermeneutical devices with which Christians are so familiar for granted.
, a big part of the project involved
exploring how a variety of people interpret and apply the concept of «biblical
womanhood.»
I intend to
explore the darker side of biblical
womanhood.
My goal was to listen, learn,
explore, and show that «biblical
womanhood» might not be as straightforward as we'd like to think, that there does not exist in the Bible a single definition, or list of rules, for something as complex as
womanhood.
I spend quite a bit of time
exploring this in my book, A Year of Biblical
Womanhood, but it's so important to the conversation surrounding gender equality in the Church, it's worth discussing in an abbreviated format here.
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At age sixteen, Sara Shandler read Mary Pipher's Reviving Ophelia, the national bestseller that candidly
explored the unique issues that challenge girls in their struggle toward
womanhood.
By making visible and tangible the various definitions of
womanhood that transcend cultures and time, Lin creates an immersive platform to
explore how women feel within their evolving societal roles.
Schwabacher also
explored her identity as a woman, specifically her roles as wife and mother, in a series of paintings related to
womanhood and maternity.
Current projects include In the Shadow of the Negress: A Brief History of Modern Artistic Practice, which
explores the constitutive role played by fictions of black
womanhood in Western art from the late - eighteenth century to the present, and a companion volume — tentatively entitled Touched by the Mother: Contemporary Artists, Black Masculinities, and the Ends of the American Century — that brings together many of his new and previously published critical essays.
While a resident, she will continue
exploring the symbolism of
womanhood through installation, portraiture, and still life photography.
In her first solo exhibition at Taylor De Cordoba, Kimberly Brooks
explores issues of feminine identity, nostalgia, idolization and
womanhood.
Public Displays of Privacy
explores the intimate moments of Black
Womanhood.
Aptly entitled «Ode to She», the artist's latest work, intuitively completed at the beginning of South Africa's 2017 commemorations of women's month (celebrated on the 9th August locally each year)
explores, and encapsulates the essence of what it means to be a Xhosa woman, a human expression of «
womanhood».
The work is a collaborative dialogue that
explores the complexity of female maker to female subject, of
womanhood on each side of the camera and of spoken and unspoken conversation.
Male artist
explores journey to
womanhood through taboo subject of female bleeding in Malaysia.
She is interested in reimagining her own origins, creating labor - intensive works that
explore specific issues of landscape,
womanhood, and race.
Catherine Fox, «Lipstick
Explores Meaning of
Womanhood,» The Atlanta Journal - Constitution, June 29, p. Q8, exhibition review ofLipstick.
This group exhibition blurs the lines set in place to demarcate what is kept private and what is for public consumption, while
exploring the complexities of identity, memory and subjectivity in relation to Black
Womanhood.
DC Arts Center presents Public Displays of Privacy, an exhibition featuring four local women artists who
explore the complexities of identity, memory and subjectivity in relation to Black
Womanhood.
Hosted by Lanisa Kitchiner, director of education and scholarly initiatives at the museum, the panel «will
explore how they negotiate intention versus impact in creative works, how they navigate the exclusive art world, and how they use black female bodies — particularly their own — to create alternative visions of black
womanhood.»
Curated by Justin Hoover, the exhibition titled The Channel of Democracy:
Womanhood, Power & Freedom in Video Art will highlight 16 local and international female video and new media artists
exploring the issues of power, equity and representation.
«Esoteric Lore: Visual Storytelling is a growing collective of female artists who are unearthing creative outlets to
explore aspects of black
womanhood.
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