Expressions in Equality Exhibit

Sheila Frampton-Cooper is curating an exhibit titled Expressions in Equality, to open at the Visions Art Museum in San Diego, California, January 17, 2015, in honor of Martin Luther King Day. The idea for the exhibit comes from Sheila’s statement below:

What drives people to undermine whole populations that they deem different and therefore unacceptable? From racial, gender and sexual inequality to ageism and classism, progress has been made, yet discrimination still abounds. This show begs the questions: What are the issues we’re challenged with, and what would a perfect society look like that’s sustained by pure, unconditional love?

For those that know Sheila, it makes complete sense that this is the show she wanted to create, and I’m glad to be a part of it. Here are the participating artists she’s invited to make a piece specifically for this exhibit:

Alice Beasley

Carol Beck

Jenny Bowker

Dawn Williams Boyd

Blake Chamberlain

Hollis Chatelain

Shin-Hee Chin

Marion Coleman

Randall Cook

Ife Felix

Sheila Frampton-Cooper

Laura Gadson

Valerie Goodwin

Jerry Granata

Deborah Grayson

Sandra Hankins

Pam Holland

Sherry Davis Kleinman

Pauline Karasch Salzman

Patricia Kennedy-Zafred

Judy Levine

Kathy Nida

Mary Pal

Pam RuBert

Susan Shie

Susan Wessels

So this will be my summer project (or at least one of them), although what I show on the web will be limited, per instructions, so if you want to see the whole thing, you’ll have to either come to VAM in January/February next year, or apparently this show will be traveling for a year after that, so you may have another opportunity to see it. My plan is to start drawing over Spring Break. It is always nice to be asked to be part of an exhibit; with my subject matter, it is not often the case. I will be doing gender equality (no shocker to those who know me), and have been letting ideas percolate since I knew about this months ago…it should be good.