THE FEMALE POWER

The Art & Social Project "The Female Power" is a platform for self-identified female artists and women of all occupations to connect and speak up. The fact that in any area we mostly have been hearing men’s voices loudly is one of the causing factors for an unbalanced, unfair, and less emotionally intelligent world we live in. Therefore there is urgent necessity of women’s voices to be loud and heard enough in order to balance the society. And, of course, as a result it helps toward peace and harmony in the world.The Female Power will be featuring and speaking about not the artists only. We will be happy to feature and talk about women and women's achievements in any industry and field. We would like to connect women of different occupations and professions in order to build a powerful network of strong personalities to be able to make positive changes in the world.We encourage artists, writers, photographer, actors, directors, and all other creative women in this community to find and help us feature all prominent women around the globe.*Initiated by RE:ARTISTE International Art Organization.

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“I Care: The All Women Art Show and Discussion”

to Close the International Women’s Month in New York

Curated by RE:ARTISTE and The Espejo Organization for the Arts, this exhibition will present the work of international self-identified female artists and offer a debate on women’s sexuality, prejudices, rejection, and safety.

NEW YORK, NY. - On March 29, 2018 at 6.30 pm, RE: ARTISTE International Art Organization and The Espejo Organization for the Arts (EOarts) will present “I Care: The All Women Art Show and Discussion”, the art event hosted at The Wall Gallery, which will offer a platform for self-identified female artists and women of all occupations to connect and speak up.

This will be the first off-line public presentation of the ”I CARE FOR” (#ICareFor) Campaign; a project created by RE:ARTISTE’s founder and curator Natalie Burlutskaya. Burlutskaya has been campaigning for woman’s rights long before the "Me Too" and "Time's Up" movements. Burlutskaya created The Art & Social Project "The Female Power" back in 2015 as a platform for exploring, sharing, and creating alternatives for women issues that connected female artists from all over the globe. The #ICareFor campaign first started as an International Women’s Day event and expanded, eventually creating a network of women artists with passions about the future, art, children, nature, culture, education, and more.

The show will present the works of international female artists who participated in the online campaign including Hadieh Afshani (Iran - Australia - USA), Kate Goltseva (Ukraine - USA), Leah Miriam Cooper (USA), Shirley Siegal (Israel), Carol Scavotto (USA), Rochana Dubey (India - USA), Courtney Treglia (USA), Henriette Roka Aardal (Norway), and Irina Kasperskaya (Russia). As well as the art exhibit, the roundtable discussion will be hosted during the event, in which the audience will be invited to discuss their experiences with and views on women's sexuality, prejudices, rejection, and safety.

The exhibition and discussion aims to offer a space where to identify and assign new agents of change and a new perspective on the challenges faced by women today.

About the organizers:

The exhibition is curated by RE:ARTISTE, an international art organization exposing emerging and established artists to the audience of curators, buyers, art enthusiasts. RE: ARTISTE promotes the idea that art is a powerful peacemaking force. Through the artists’ visions, RE:ARTISTE hopes to be able to view the unseen and enable voices that are not often heard anywhere else.

The Espejo Organization for the Arts (EOarts), an arts management organization based in New York that supports and promotes the work of mid-career and emerging international artists and creative professionals will sponsor the exhibition. Since 2013, EOarts has developed programs such as workshops, exhibitions, publications, and art residencies with the mission to create an international and multicultural arts community in the United States.

For further press information and images, please contact:

Natalie Burlutskaya | RE: ARTISTE | [email protected] |

Kika Espejo | The Espejo Organization for the Arts | [email protected]|

Information on Listing:

Exhibition: March 29, 6:30 PM - 9:30 PM Roundtable Discussion: 7:30 PM - 8:30 PM

Location:

The Wall (Rockwood Studios Gallery and Art space)

1080 Wyckoff Ave, Ridgewood, NY, 11385

Off of the L train Halsey stop.

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Despite the fact that artist Alexandra Bonomo is native New Yorker and was born in the ‘concrete jungle’ of Manhattan, she’s close to nature: “I care for working with nature and building a sense of community,” - says Alexandra.

She’s a keen on graphic design but her passion is watercolor. 

Alumna of the Graphic Design course at Parsons School of Design, New York, Alexandra Bonomo is currently working on some personal art projects. 

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“I care for living with fire, igniting the free spirit.

I care for embracing the female sensitive, all compassing and powerful sacred heart.” - Ane Sommerstad, artist

Ane Sommerstad grew up close to the mountains of Norway. The closeness to the forces of nature and the connectedness to all and everything is highly the driving element in her art. She explores ways to make us aware of this inevitable co-dependency of keeping the earth in balance.

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#ICareFor erasing boundaries,  breaking barriers,   and shattering ceilings.

#ICareFor finding the strength and the peace within.

   - Rochana Dubey, artist, poet

Rochana Dubey joined our campaign in 2018. We met this amazing woman in 2017 - she was selected to exhibit her art at RE:ARTISTE’s juried show “Transformation”. 

Rochana Dubey is a master of brush and word. She explains her art poetically: “When ignorance gives way to a new consciousness, the mind calms down, yet at the same instant it experiences a dramatic transformation. This consciousness of self and its inner potential, in relation to surroundings, becomes the context of my work.”

Rochana was born in India currently residing in Princeton, New Jersey. 

“As an Indian contemporary artist living in diaspora, memory and cultural identity inform my work. There is a stronger need to rewind to the past and reconnect with roots. Similarities and contrasts, old and new, spiritualism and pragmatism – all intersect and connect in the absence of boundaries to create a contemporary outlook.” - Rochana Dubey 

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Carol Scavotto is a multi media artist, who lives and works in Rhode Island. She became a finalist at our juried show “Transformation” where she presented a piece of video art about personal transformation and survival.

The theme of Carol Scavotto’s art is identity, relationships, and human instinct.

“I come form a long line of visual communicators, and my work is about communication.My work questions and address the individuals response-ability regarding social, global and personal identity. I offer visual questions, asking viewers to contemplate a concept, opening the pathway for conversation. Often my work takes viewers a bit out of the their comfort zone, leaving the viewer to ponder alternate points of view.“ - Carol Scavotto

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Meet Courtney Treglia - a new participant in our campaign #ICareFor.

Courtney is an artist, musician, and educator. She was a finalist at RE:ARTISTE’s juried show “Transformation”. Her mixed media artwork was exhibited at Gallery MC in 2017.

“Through my love for my students, animation, and surrealism, I use the fairytale/story/mythology driven narrative to explore themes of the female experience, mental disorders, and trauma. My mixed media approach utilizes drawing, painting, and photography to explore these narratives and the art of the moving image. I have been exploring printmaking and creative technologies for my work and will have more to come.” - Courtney Treglia 

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Carolee Schneemann: “Be Prepared...”

"She wanted to paint; her all-male teachers wanted her to pose. When she painted a nude self-portrait, she was accused of moral turpitude and expelled." - New York Times

“BE PREPARED: to have your brain picked to have the pickings misunderstood to be mistreated whether your success increases or decreases if you are a woman (and things are not utterly changed) they will almost never believe you really did it (what you did do) they will patronize you humor you try to sleep with you want you to transform them with your energy” - this is Carolee Schneemann’s litany of misogynistic reactions a female artist could expect to encounter in her career.

Schneemann's massive solo exhibition is on view at MoMA PS1 through March 11.

Read the full profile: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/01/arts/design/carolee-schneemann-moma-ps1-art-performance.html

Images: @nataliephotoart

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FIRSTS, by TIME MAGAZINE

A Multi-Media Project by TIME MAGAZINE Featuring 45 Pioneering Women

‘Being the first always creates a pressure that you don’t want to be the last.’ - Rachel Maddow

‘I’m bolstered by folks who create their own ceilings.’ - Ava DuVernay

‘There is plenty of room in the world for mediocre men, but there is no room for mediocre women.’ - Madeleine Albright

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My name is Emma Håkansson, I live in Melbourne, Australia. I love to make art that I think can help the world in some way. For the past year I've been exploring ideas based around trauma, and the effects that a traumatic experience can have on a person, through my art. In presenting trauma openly, honestly, and in a raw way, I hoped to give people a greater understanding of What it's like to be dealing with trauma.

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Georgia O’Keeffe is popularly known for her large-scale paintings of flowers from the 1920s and 1930s. Flowers as a theme were considered a “feminine” subject in the nineteenth and early twentieth century, but no one had ever painted them like her: magnified, lushly colored, and botanically detailed.

As soon as she began to exhibit such imagery, both male and female critics—following theories promoted by Alfred Stieglitz—interpreted her art as having strong sexual and anatomical connotations, claiming her images were expressions of an essential and uniquely feminine artistic sensibility. O’Keeffe spent years denying these eroticized readings of her paintings as well as the qualification of her identity as an artist with the word woman.

Alfred Stieglitz (American, 1864–1946). Georgia O’Keeffe: A Portrait, 1918. Gelatin silver print, 43⁄4 x 35⁄8 in. (11.9 x 9.2 cm). @philamuseumt; Purchased with the Lola Downin Peck Fund, 1978, 1978-91-1

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France’s First Lady, a Confidante and Coach, May Break the Mold

Brigitte Macron, who is 24 years older than her husband, President-elect Emmanuel Macron and has coached him during his career, is expected to define her future role.

“She and one of her daughters pushed him to help advance women in politics; he has pledged that half the candidates his party will field in the coming legislative elections will be women and that he will appoint many to his cabinet.“

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Whatever you empower, you attract.

(via abundancefocus)

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Kids and Art

Are you an artist, entrepreneur and mother at the same time? How do you feel, sista? :-) Natalie Burlutskaya, curator and marketing advisor from RE:ARTISTE International Art Organization, thinks you can successfully combine your art activities and motherhood. Educate your kid and enjoy your child’s company!

Click the link to read more: https://reartiste-magazine.com/2017/04/20/how-to-enjoy-art-fairs-with-your-kids/

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Knock-knock! A traveling artist found out about our campaign #ICareFor and sent us an email! 

MJ Viajes is an artist whose passion is to see the world. She is currently attempting to become a successful traveling artist. She gave up most of her possessions (except for her art supplies and a small amount of clothing) in order to travel and experience the world. MJ stays in each country for as long the tourist visas allow. For now she lives in SE Asia.

MJ was born in Seattle, Washington. She primarily does portrait paintings. The artist works with acrylic paint, oil paint, and is starting to work with digital medium. She tries to capture candid moments that highlight the subject's unique personality She captures the essence of her subjects through both colorful and monochromatic subjects within one composition. The use of both techniques allows her to highlight items of interest within each piece and set the mood for each subject. MJ Viajes has been featured in art publications, including Art Buzz and has shown her art with Alfredo Arreguin. Some of her past commissions include a mural for The Seattle Ferry Service.

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Toss

When I was your age, they’ll say After a speech about how Joan of Arc led French knights And Rosa Parks sat down for social rights As if standing up for an elderly on the train doesn’t earn you a high five As if tossing ball back to a child didn’t save a life.

You should be playing ball with your own son, they’ll say But you’re not even settled down, that’s a shame They’ll suggest to quit playing games with grown up men And make them scotch on rocks instead

Life, they’ll say, is a school of hard knocks So I knocked few times And all I heard was an echo of hardening outer shells Some unhatched bones and souls Some of rotten faults

Neither settling nor rebelling wins you a popularity contest in an ego centric world full of noise Where the loudest woman is thrown on a barbwire fence  And the silent one is rarely acknowledged with a glance  

Does one saves the world from men who are bound to ruin it? Or cleans up after the mess is done?

Think of helping yourself first So there is one less tear, one less unsatisfied glance in the mirror and one less reason to fear Whether it’s failure or greatness

I forgive them and myself too For high expectations, unwarranted promises and make beliefs And ask of us not to bother When we’re shaking our heads in disapproval of another, it’s our own necks we’re straining.

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“Think of helping yourself first So there is one less tear, one less unsatisfied glance in the mirror and one less reason to fear Whether it’s failure or greatness”

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Happy International Women’s Day!

Let’s get connected and be in touch with more women from all over the globe. Last year, the project The Female Power, started with the campaign #ICareFor. Four artists from four different countries became curators: Hadieh Afshani, Henriette Roka Aardal, Shirley Siegal, Natalie Burlutskaya. Our collaboration evolved into more art & social projects. 

We hope that these little steps help women’s self-expression and confidence. Feel free to contact us at RE:ARTISTE International Art Organization with any ideas, projects, questions, collaboration offers. Let’s help each other thrive. HAPPY INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY!

Thank you, all the participants!

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My name is Vinka Gasparus, I’m an artist from Croatia: I care for enlightenment of humankind, and hoping to see it soon. One person can make a difference.

Vinka Gašparuš gained her Master’s Degree from the Academy of Applied Arts, Rijeka, Croatia in painting and new media, and graduation thesis on “The mind openness toward violence in the media."  With continuous activity in various areas of artistic expression (painting, graphic design, illustration, set design, new media) she is also continuously working on non-formal education. The main fields of interests are mass media, feminism, gender equality, human rights etc.

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