The Video Data Bank (VDB), started in 1976 at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago as a collection of student productions and interviews with visiting artists, grew to include interviews with
underrepresented women artists conducted by VDB codirectors Lyn Blumenthal and Kate Horsfield.
What: Organic Matters — Women to Watch 2015 Where: The National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, D.C.. When: June 5, 2015 to September 13, 2015 Why: Get ready for a new roster of emerging and
underrepresented women artists who will be featured in the NMWA's annual program.
Every two to three years NMWA invites its 21 national and international outreach committees to propose a shortlist of
underrepresented women artists for a themed exhibition at NMWA.
Candidates should be passionate about contemporary art as well as supporting
underrepresented women artists.
Women to Watch is an exhibition series featuring emerging and
underrepresented women artists held every two to three years developed in conjunction with the museum's national and international outreach committees.
Not exact matches
The Screenwriters Intensive is for first - time fiction feature writers or writer / directors who come from
underrepresented communities, including
women,
artists of color, LGBTQ
artists, and
artists with disabilities.
Artist Statement
Women make up half of the country, yet are continuously
underrepresented in media, political office, high paying jobs, and thus, history.
Alter had been assembling the collection since the 1980s after realizing that work by
women artists was severely
underrepresented in most art museums, and had intended from the start that the collection would one day go to a museum.
Exhibitions showcase subject matter that reframes and uncovers previously overlooked or
underrepresented histories — including those of Southern African American
artists, Afro - Caribbean / Afro - Latina
women, and residents on the United States - Mexico border — and narratives of materials and labor.
It's no secret that
women artists are
underrepresented in the art world, while their image, painted by the brushes of men, is one of the oldest artistic tropes.
Galerie Lelong & Co. has also actively engaged in the cross-generational representation of
women artists at a time when
women continue to be
underrepresented in the art world.
While this year's standout museum shows are admittedly concentrated in the Western world (and many in major cities), they reveal a positive trend in the recognition of
underrepresented facets of the art world —
women and
artists of color, in particular.
The
Women to Watch exhibition series features emerging or
underrepresented artists from the states and countries in which NMWA has outreach committees.
Each year, the A.I.R. Fellowship Program provides six emerging or
underrepresented women - identified
artists with their first solo exhibition in NYC.
Women artists, especially women of color, remain dramatically underrepresented and undervalued in museums, galleries, and auction ho
Women artists, especially
women of color, remain dramatically underrepresented and undervalued in museums, galleries, and auction ho
women of color, remain dramatically
underrepresented and undervalued in museums, galleries, and auction houses.
As the Guerrilla Girls made clear through their large - scale, statistics - driven mural at FAIR.,
women artists are still wildly
underrepresented in the art world's institutions.
«I've always felt that
women artists in the twentieth century are dramatically underrated,
underrepresented, and underpriced.»
From the 1960s to today, feminist
artists have helped move art and culture forward by championing
underrepresented women and protesting gender inequality.
Established by
artist Stephanie Bernheim in 1993, the fellowship program is designed to generate opportunities for emerging and
underrepresented self - identified
women artists.
Over 100
women from 15 countries are included, from well - known
artists like Lygia Clark, Ana Mendieta, and Judy Baca, to scores of
underrepresented pioneers, working across a wide spectrum of media from painting and sculpture, to photography, video, installation, and ephemeral actions.
In 2010 Wylie was also selected as the British
artist in the
Women to Watch exhibition at the National Museum of
Women in the Arts in Washington, which promotes
underrepresented and overlooked female
artists.
In 1972, pioneering feminist
artists Judy Chicago and Miriam Schapiro transformed a derelict Hollywood mansion into «Womanhouse,» a network of exhibitions, installations and performances by a vastly
underrepresented subculture of American
artists:
women.
Active at a time when
women artists were
underrepresented in the art world, Hunter and Spence used their work to act out personal traumas and shift gender assumptions and cultural stereotypes.
Parsons serves as a key example of a
woman who shaped the canon through her persistent support of
underrepresented artists, all while maintaining a rigorous studio practice, and while her nearly six decades of luminous paintings were exhibited and sold throughout her lifetime, they were timidly recognized by the art world.
It is the unfortunate truth that
women remain grossly
underrepresented in the artistic sphere, while male
artists continue to dominate gallery rosters and walls.