The new On The Issues Magazine Winter edition, features Miriam Schapiro, with an introduction by Linda Stein, as well as commentary by Eleanor Flomenhaft. The theme of this issue of the progressive woman's magazine is "women who fight for freedom, even at their own peril," including art by Linda Stein and Joan Barber.
Emma Amos: Heroes and Folk, an exhibition of paintings, installations, prints and woven works, was shown at the Lamont Gallery at Phillips Exeter Academy from November 16 to January 23. Read press from the exhibition at The Wire, Artscope Magazine, and Seacoast Online.
Joan Barber was featured in Southwest Art Magazine's article "The Feminine Form" in their January 2010 issue, with her painting Weight of Fire.
Siona Benjamin's and Flo Oy Wong's work is included in the group exhibit A Complex Weave: Women & Identity in Contemporary Art, curated by Martin Rosenberg, Ph.D. and J. Susan Isaacs, Ph.D. The exhibition originated at the Stedman Gallery of Rutgers University, and has traveled to Towson University, Center for the Arts in Maryland, where it will be on view from February 12 - April 17, 2010. Siona Benjamin will speak on a panel moderated by Eleanor Heartney at the University on April 9th, from 1:30 - 5pm.
Siona Benjamin and Roger Shimomura have artwork included in MIAD's Transitional/Transcultural: New Paradigms for a New Century – an exhibition by eight artists whose work explores the changing character of world culture and the complexity of their multicultural identities. The exhibition is on view January 15 – February 27, 2010, with Benjamin participating in an Artist Talk and Reception on Thursday, February 11, 7 p.m.
Siona Benjamin is also participating in a three person exhibition Visions in Miniature: Contemporary Manuscript Painting at Twelve Gates Art Gallery in Philadelphia, PA, which will be on view from February 5th - 27th.
The Center for Creative Resources is producing a concert in partnership with Intersections International centered around the Ellen Frank Illumination Arts Foundation's CITIES OF PEACE paintings on Saturday, April 24th. The concert is being held at the Society for Ethical Culture on the Upper West Side. The nine paintings will be projected on a large screen behind the musicians, who will perform music inspired by the paintings. The musicians are Eugene Friesen, cello, Glen Velez, percussion, Steve Gorn, flutes, and Fred Johnson, host & vocals.
Rimma Gerlovina and Valeriy Gerlovin have work in the exhibition Gender Check, the first comprehensive exhibition featuring art from Eastern Europe since the 1960s based on the theme of gender roles. It is on view at the Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig, in Vienna, Austria, through February 14th.
Mira Lehr's painting was selected for the national juried exhibition "Navel Gazing" currently on view at the Brevard Art Museum in Melbourne, FL, which runs though April 11, then travels for 3 years. Mira Lehr is showing at theOrlando Museum of Art's exhibition "Without a Trace: Artists Imagine a World Without Us," through March 21st, and also in NYC at the NAWA Gallery's "National Small Works Exhibition," February 12 - March 9th.
Mira Lehr has been invited to be an Artist-in-Residence for August 2010 at The Bascom: A Center for the Visual Arts in North Carolina, where her art will be featured in an exhibition from Sept. 11 - Nov. 6th.
Road to Freedom: Photographs of the Civil Rights Movement, 1956-1968, the largest exhibition in more than twenty years devoted to photography of the Civil Rights Movement is currently at the Skirball Cultural Center through March 7th and features photographs by Builder Levy. The exhibtion has drawn popular and critical acclaim since debuting at the High Museum, Atlanta, in June 2008, and has since traveled to the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, DC, and the Field Museum in Chicago.
Roger Shimomura's artworks are currently being shown alongside his collection of ephemera and volumes of stereotypical images of Asian Pacific Islander Americans in a special exhibtion called "Yellow Terror" at the Wing Luke Museum in Seattle, WA, through April 18, 2010. Read a review of the show that appeared in The Stranger. You can also read this article about the exhibit that appeared in the International Examiner.
Linda Stein's work is included in a group show "From the Center: Now!" that was juried by Lucy Lippard at Woman Made Gallery in Chicago. The exhibition is sponsored by the Women's Caucus for Art, and is on view from January 22 - February 25.