So the Expressions in Equality exhibit opened Saturday night, and it has some amazing art in it…Hollis Chatelain’s Girls Are Strong being one of them…
Visions Art Museum does a nice job of allowing the artists to preview the show and take pictures, so here are Pam RuBert and Susan Shie’s pieces…
RuBert’s wonderfully colorful Green Lady Liberty, spaceships and all…
And Shie’s ER: Page of Potholders (Coins) in the Kitchen Tarot…
which I did not have the presence of mind to read, so I will have to go back (I don’t deal well with openings).
Compared to the last exhibit at VAM, this was much less abstract, although Freedom of Speech by Susan Wessels is an abstract piece I like, with Deborah Grayson’s Breaths to the right of it.
Pauline Karasch Salzman’s Lessons Learned is another one to come back and read, with Ife Felix’s Reverend Dr. King’s Dream Unrealized to the right.
Jerry Granata’s With Liberty and Justice for All definitely caught my eye…
And Shin-Hee Chin’s Equality: Expanding Circle of Liberty shows the continuing expansion of her techniques…
I wish I had gone back and taken more photos here…from left to right is Dawn Williams Boyd’s graphic Sisters in the Eyes of Men, Sandra Lauterbach’s Story of the Wall, Chin’s piece, Judy Zoelzer Levine’s Together on the Field of Play, Alice Beasley’s No Vote No Voice, and returning to Chatelaine’s piece.
In the back, they hung my Work in Progress with Randall Cook’s piece…
Here is Cook’s “Gay” Marriage…
Laura Gadson’s B-R-O-A-D-E-N-I-N-G Beautiful, an amazing piece made mostly of words and the eye staring back at you.
The curator, Sheila Frampton Cooper’s piece, Marie Magdelaine de la Saint Baume…
The quilting on that piece…I should have taken details!
Mary Pal’s The Other 1% hung next to Patricia Kennedy-Zafred’s Tagged, with actual tags hanging from it.
Blake Chamberlain’s Harriet Tubman was fascinating to look at up close…
And here’s me with my piece, finished! Hallelujah…
The back room has the amazing Margaret Fabrizio’s work…
Margaret is every bit as amazing and colorful as her work…
She traveled to India to learn how to make these. I love talking to her; she is interesting and funny and always has an opinion on the topic at hand. Plus she has great clothes.
I did not take photos of every quilt, unfortunately (distracted by people), but this is a strong show, well worth visiting for, although I would have liked shorter statements about each quilt hanging with them and in the gallery guide, which should be available this week. I missed Sherry Davis Kleinman and Marion Coleman’s pieces (there were always people standing in front of them). They did have us write longer statements for the docents; presumably if you were in the gallery, someone could produce a book of those for you to read. There is a hope that this show will travel, but perhaps you will have to travel to it…it’s at VAM through April 4.
Kathy Nida 