by Melissa Corliss DeLorenzo Sometimes I realize, most often after I have already begun writing, that in one way or another, I am retelling a story I’ve already told. When I lived in Colorado, surrounded by all those purple-red mountains, I missed my Northern Atlantic achingly. So I wrote about it and then I wrote [...]
Welcome to this week’s featured writing prompt. Create a piece (short story, poem, etc.) about the thing you thought you would never write about. Mask it as needed, but try to be as open as possible. Attempt fearlessness in saying the things you thought you could not. Enjoy! and don’t forget to post your finished [...]
The Susan B. Anthony Institute for Gender and Women’s Studies and the Department of English at the University of Rochester have awarded their annual Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize for fiction to South African-born novelist Isla Morley for her latest book, Come Sunday. Called “A beautifully written story of overwhelming grief” by Kafka committee chairwoman Kathleen [...]
We are currently accepting applications for an adventurous and tech-savvy Online Events Coordinator to help facilitate literary events for the forthcoming International Women’s Day Virtual Festival 2011. Working from the comfort of one’s own home-office, the successful coordinator will undertake tasks related to the planning and organization of various virtual events, including but not limited [...]
We are currently accepting proposal submissions for the 2011 exhibition program, including a special engagement during the 2011 International Women’s Day Virtual Festival in March. To submit a proposal, please download and complete the proposal form (word | pdf). At this time we only accept electronic proposal submissions. Deadline for proposals: November 30, 2010. Enquiries [...]
Guest blogger, Marie Mutsuki Mockett A few years ago, I came home from my grandmother’s memorial service in Japan, and recounted my experiences to my agent over a cup of tea in her book-and-paper stuffed office in Chelsea. It had been an intense family experience; the burial and luncheon had revealed a great many family [...]
09.08.2010 – 11.05.2010 Tracey Emin, Cecily Brown, Nathalie Djurberg, Tiina Heiska, Sarah Lederman and Helen Carmel Benigson The Body in Women’s Art Now: Part 2 – Flux investigates artworks that present the body as a site of instability and flux. The exhibition will explore how the body in flux becomes a vehicle to both celebrate [...]
09.12.2010 – 01.30.2011 New York, NY – Feminist challenges to creative and institutional limits have been widely influential in art since the 1960s, with the emergence of the women’s art movement in the United States. The Jewish Museum presents Shifting the Gaze: Painting and Feminism, an exhibition exploring the impact of feminism on contemporary painting, [...]
Tate has appointed Jessica Morgan as The Daskalopoulos Curator, International Art.
by Laura Cude Ageing women: it conjures up symbology of a youth long gone, as well as the possibilities of approval and romance with it. In my mid teens when reading Sylvia Plath’s “Mirror” for the first time, I felt she described the realisation of being an old woman in a way in which I [...]
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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