If you are anywhere near Brockport NY, in upstate New York, my exhibition with Melissa Potter, Gendered Journeys, will be on view at the Tower Fine Arts Center at the College at Brockport.
The exhibition is anchored around a two-part residency in the Republic of Georgia. Part 1, with Clifton Meador, incorporates a unique craft‐based project which brings together groups of women for a series of workshops in artists’ books and personal storytelling using the medium of handmade felt, an indigenous Georgian craft. The works embrace feminist activism for women’s basic rights to safety, as well as advocacy for women craft artisans, whose skills are endangered, underpaid and under‐recognized.
In Part 2, Potter and Schaer returned to Tblisi in June 2013 to work with local feminist activists to create felt banners and masks in the wake of a riot that attacked peaceful LGBTQ marchers in Tbilisi.
In addition to our collaboration with women artisans and activists in the Republic of Georgia, the exhibition includes Potter's film Like Other Girls Do, featuring the story of a Montenegrian woman who was raised in a Balkan tradition as a boy in a family with no male heirs and Baby (Not) on Board, my on-going project about society's prejudice against childless women.
The exhibition will be on view from March 3-29. The Gallery will be closed from March 14-22 for academic break.
The gallery is located at 180 Holley Street, Brockport, Brockport, NY, USA and the exhibit is free and open to the public
For more information:
http://www.brockport.edu/newsbureau/2080.html
