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Exhibit Finale, performances created in response to the exhibit and curate by April Sellers.

March 21, 2015 Gamut Gallery

Featuring performances by Magnolia Yang-Sao-Yia, Missa Kes, Molly-MargaretJohnson, Sydney Burch, Jeff Nichols, Halie Ann Bahr, Sonja Johanson, Billy Mullaney, Noah Crandell, McKinnley Aitchison, Evan Murnane

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Panel discussion featuring Robyne Robinson, Joan Vorderbruggen, and Drew Peterson. Moderated by curators Angela Sprunger and Ash Marlene Hane

March 8, 2015 International Women’s Day Gamut Gallery, Minneapolis

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Wes Winship of Burlesque North America test printing “Malala”

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Opening event, February 28, 2015 7-11pm Gamut Gallery, 1006 Marquette Ave South, Minneapolis

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Revolution Now, curated by Ash MarleneHane and Angela Sprunger. On view February 28- March 21, 2015 Gamut Gallery, 1006 South MarquetteAve, Minneapolis This exhibition is poised to acknowledge women who are creatingchange, locally or globally, known to many or known to a few. Their revolutions may be large and loud or slow and quiet, but their fight is now. Curators Hane and Sprunger have invited fourteen artists, including themselves, to create new work for this show. This divergent group of printmakers have each selected a woman to represent based on their own ideas of what revolution is. Working in a variety of print media - including monoprint, relief and silkscreen - each artist will interpret the “portrait” in a way that best suits their talents and style. Printmakers have long been at the forefront of revolution, helping to boldly bring the voice of the people to the greater public. The resulting collection of prints will introduce viewers to women from all over the world and in doing so encourage new dialogue and understanding. Featured artists: Christopher Alday, Hend Al-Monsour, Brian Borlaug, Laura Brown, Robyn Carley, Ash Marlene Hane, Jade Hoyer, Abbey Kleinert, Allegra Lockstadt, Ponytails, Angela Sprunger, Tonja Torgerson, Wes Winship, Sarita Zaleha Ash Marlene Hane is a printmaker, the creator of Three Letter Acronym (TLA) press, and a founding member of The Midnight Brigade. Her print work questions ideas of control, vulnerability and expectation with a focus on interpreting the figure through hand-drawn and photographic elements. In 2013, Hane received a Minnesota State Arts Board Next Step Fund Grant and launched a screenprinted apparel line through her press, Three Letter Acronym. In 2014, she co-founded The Midnight Brigade, a gallery, clothing boutique, and art studio in South Minneapolis. Angela Sprunger is an artist, educator, and administrator. She creates socially engaged prints and objects to agitate cultural complacency. In the past year, Sprunger complete a public art project through Corridor Collaboration Grant from the City of Saint Paul and had a solo show of print work at Franklin Arts Center Resident Artist Gallery. She is also part of the Art Swap team, a portable community event that invites participants to bring a work of art they made to exchange for a piece in Art Swap’s rotating collection.

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Wheat paste with print proofs.

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Artist: Wes Winship Title: Malala Medium: Three color screen print on Crane Lettra Pearl White paper Size: 18” x 24” Year: 2015 Woman Represented:  Malala Yousafzai Statement: As a westerner, it's hard to understand how standing up for something we take almost for granted, basic education, can put a mark on your head. Malala Yousafzai choose to do just that in her native Pakistan when the Taliban had barred females from attending school. She began to speak out in 2008 and by 2009, at the age of 11, was blogging about her experiences living under Taliban control. Her voice sparked a grass roots movement and the ire of the Taliban. Ever since, she has lived under a very real threat of death, even surviving a bullet through her face in a 2012 assassination attempt. 

The attempt on her life only strengthened her resolve and amplified her voice. The youngest nobel peace prize laureate, she continues to speak out on behalf of her beliefs on ever widening platforms. Her belief being, that education is the key to solving all the worlds problems. And how knowledge and understanding can unify all people; bringing them together to come up with innovative solutions to the many challenges people face all around the globe. Her strength, courage, and articulation make her an easy choice when thinking of modern women who are changing the world. We could all stand to be a little more Malala

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Artist:  Ash Marlene Hane Title: The Jasmine Revolution Medium: 5 color screen print on Arches Size: 18” x 24” Year: 2015

Woman Represented:  Tawakkol Karman

Statement:  

"I am a citizen of the world. The Earth is my country, and humanity is my nation." Tawakkol Karmen has been a prominent leader in protests and the advancement of human rights, and by extension, women's rights in the Arab world. From an early age she has been an outspoken activist/journalist who has let neither dictatorship rule or custom gender roles subdue or quiet her demands for a more just and equal Yemen. She became the face of the Yemeni revolution during the beginning of the Arab Spring and became known as The Iron woman.   In 2011 she was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. Upon receiving the prize she said, "I dedicate it to all Yemenis who preferred to make their revolution peaceful by facing the snipers with flowers." My hope in choosing this brave and defiant woman is to share the story of revolution in the Arab world. Read about her, talk about her, and then find out more.