Women’s Art Institute at St. Kate’s
The Women’s Art Institute at St. Kates’s is an interesting, intensive experience. For the last 16 years, for nearly 4 weeks, 5 days a week, 18 or so women meet with professors, visiting artists, art historians and make studio visits to working artists all while producing a “major body of work”, informed by our work together.
This may well be a fitting definition for the word “INTENSE.” A lot of reading, writing, discussion, and, yes, sometimes tears, ensue.
I came to try to bring focus to my work, illuminate a path ahead for work and exhibition, and increase community. While the months ahead will tell, I believe all three of those goals have been addressed. I came with the intent of investigating the role of digital embroidery in my feminist art practice. Yes, I did, indeed, fuss around a lot with the existing elements of this nascent installation of embroidered vulvas. They are rather pretty and began to develop as characters, but I paused the project and will continue with it later.
Why? well, stuff happens! Part of the project involved the development of wallpaper for the installation. When the wallpaper arrived from Spoonflower, it was beautiful…but WRONG for the project. However, it was very right in and of itself. It became a stand-alone, edition-able piece, entitled THE BODY DISAPPEARS. It is a print, 12′ long and 2′ wide and it is rich and beautiful.
sound loop for the performance of Eros and Thantos