Alexa Mergen explores women poets and the nature poem: “As women and as poets, we speak for our country and our planet.” Mergen explores the work and perspective of poets Brenda Hillman and Janice Harrington.
Her Circle Ezine takes a look at the new domesticity that is surfacing—one that reclaims the art of homemaking and childrearing and by its very nature, demands legitimization and validation as a Feminist endeavor.
The Sistah Tribe-Phoenix Project’s mission is to inspire marginalized, traumatized, and culturally under-served women and girls in the public sector of New York City, to give creative expression to their traumatic histories, and to find creative solutions to life’s conflicts by using the play “Let the Phoenix Rise” as a catalyst and reference for healing and self-reclamation. The Phoenix is a glorious mythological bird symbolizing death and rebirth. She is propelled by the element of fire to burn away all that is insubstantial and illusory. The Phoenix tells us that it is only through our descent into the fire that we can discover our essence, with all our beautiful defects and strengths.
The controversial relationship in the film In the Land of Blood and Honey is a metaphor and personal stage on which the larger conflict between the Serbs and Muslims is played to its inevitably gruesome end. Yes, the story is an ugly one, yet one worth the telling as it promotes awareness of the practice of rape as part of a systematic ethnic cleansing in war.
OSAKA, JAPAN. THE NATIONAL MUSEUM OF ART. Suzanne Kamata reviews Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama’s current exhibition Eternity of Eternal Eternity, now traveling around Japan.
Sofia Szamosi describes her art process for creating photo booth collages: “The photo booth becomes a microcosm for the boxes I experience daily… This is a public art—photo booths sit in commercial spaces. There is an inherent performance and exhibition involved in the process, and this is one more boundary. The flimsy curtain between me and the proprietor is another boundary and the risk of exposure and exile becomes one more thrill.”
Tori Grant-Welhouse writes about The Chalk Circle, a new anthology of intercultural prize-winning essays and finds that “our melting pot days are behind us. The impetus can no longer be homogeneity but validation of the diversity that makes us different or ‘other.’”
In her book Exhibiting Blackness, Bridget R. Cooks, associate professor in the School of Humanities at UC Irvine, analyzes the curatorial strategies, challenges, and public and critical receptions of the most significant exhibitions of African American art and culture in American art museums.
It is hard not to believe we’re in a time of empowerment of those less powerful, and to be swept up in the fervor escalating the world over. In 2011, we witnessed the Arab Spring, the Occupy Wall Street protests and most recently, one of the largest protests of women in Egypt’s long history against the [...]
Her Circle takes a close look at the International Museum of Women and its efforts to promote, support and curate the art of women from around the globe: “Although women in the Western world continue to struggle for purchase in the artistic realm, in other parts of the world voices go completely unheard—are entirely silenced. There is no outlet for them. Here is where the International Museum of Women seeks to fill the gaps and build bridges….”
Heather Child looks at roles for female characters in Disney-Pixar’s latest creations and asks, “Why are films with their feet firmly in the twenty-first century still struggling with something as basic as gender representation?
In her latest novel, Carol Anshaw presents us with a sizable group of friends, and an unforgiveable accident. She ensnares us and them in a net of gut-wrenching guilt, twisted families, fierce addictions, love, lust and everyday life. Carry the One then proceeds to lure us into closely following these people for thirty years. MaryAnne Kolton speaks to the novelist in this UpClose interview.
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Dutch artist Elis Vermuelen’s Global Burrows Project is an exploration of the places we inhabit and what we leave behind. From the beaches of the Netherlands to a disused house in the American Midwest, Vermuelen’s two-year journey opens a window onto our relationships with ourselves, each other, and our surroundings.
Colombian writer of creative non-fiction, Adriana Pàramo reads from her recently published book Looking for Esperanza, which won the Social Justice and Equality Award in Creative Nonfiction in 2011, and discusses the issues raised in the book with Claire Hart.
Eco Arts Notebook examines Polly Higgins, author of Eradicating Ecocide—exposing the corporate and political practices destroying the planet and proposing the laws needed to eradicate ecocide, and her work with exposing the world to the idea and concerns about Ecocide.
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