Featuring: Sol Aramendi, Katie Basile, Cinthya Santos Briones, Koral Carballo + Anita Pouchard Serra + Jessica Ávalos, Willow Naomi Curry + Tiffany Smith, Deborah Espinosa, Annie Flanagan + Ashley Teamer, Tailyr Irvine, Tonika Johnson, Ericka Jones-Craven, Stacy Kranitz, Muna Malik, Bethany Mollenkof, Rosem Morton, Rowan Renee, Kameelah Janan Rasheed, Karen Miranda-Rivadeneira, Mayela Rodriguez, Arin Yoon
Curated by: Amy Yenkin, Daniella Zalcman, Danielle Villasana, Emily Schiffer, and Laura Roumanos.
Banner designed by: Rina Malonzo
In a country that is witnessing pivotal public protest and civic engagement, and feels more divided than ever, We, Women shows the power of artists working in community throughout the United States, to find common ground and solutions to the most critical problems facing the country today. Through a radical transformation of image-making, We, Women believes we can revolutionize how we see our country and, ultimately, ourselves.
A preview of the traveling, nationwide exhibit coming in 2021, We, Women at Photoville presents the first cohort of women and gender nonconforming artists examining critical issues across the U.S. through photo-based community engagement projects that resist and interrogate social and political landscapes, while promoting empathy and unity.
We, Women re-frames issues, primarily from the perspective of artists of color, and highlights underrepresented narratives. We, Women is not just a grant: it’s an opportunity to shape a national conversation about problems, solutions, and how to find common ground.
The first phase of this developing project features twenty projects in key states, and a traveling national exhibition starting in 2021. Through photo-based community engagement projects, the inaugural cohort of We, Women artists examine critical issues ranging from climate change, political participation, and gentrification, to health, migration, and sexuality. Their work highlights the vital role the arts can play in social change movements by visualizing issues, attracting attention, connecting change-makers, and bridging dialogues.
Every urgent issue in America today impacts women. Women and gender nonconforming people are largely disempowered in our political and social systems. Despite decades of advances by trailblazing women, mainstream media has historically shown the country through a white, cisgender, male lens. Only through a holistic and inclusive understanding of how an imbalanced power structure impacts our entire society, may we hope to create a shift in our political and social systems.
Organizations
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Women Photograph
Women Photograph is a nonprofit that launched in 2017 to elevate the voices of women and nonbinary visual journalists. The private database includes more than 1,400 independent documentary photographers based in 125+ countries and is available privately to any commissioning editor or organization. Women Photograph also operates an annual series of project grants, a year-long mentorship program, an annual skills-building workshop, and collects data on hiring and publishing statistics in the visual media industry. Our mission is to shift the makeup of the photojournalism community and ensure that our industry’s chief storytellers are as diverse as the communities they hope to represent.
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Photoville
Founded in 2011 in Brooklyn, NY, Photoville was built on the principles of addressing cultural equity and inclusion, which we are always striving for, by ensuring that the artists we exhibit are diverse in gender, class, and race.
In pursuit of its mission, Photoville produces an annual, city-wide open air photography festival in New York City, a wide range of free educational community initiatives, and a nationwide program of public art exhibitions.
By activating public spaces, amplifying visual storytellers, and creating unique and highly innovative exhibition and programming environments, we join the cause of nurturing a new lens of representation.
Through creative partnerships with festivals, city agencies, and other nonprofit organizations, Photoville offers visual storytellers, educators, and students financial support, mentorship, and promotional & production resources, on a range of exhibition opportunities.
For more information about Photoville visit, www.photoville.com
We, Women
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2020
Featuring: Various Artists
Presented by: Women Photograph, Photoville
Locations
View Location Details Brooklyn Bridge Park – Pier 2146 Furman Street
Brooklyn, NY 11201
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- Sunday 8:00 am - 8:00 pm
Lead Funding Provided By
We, Women is generously supported by many individual donors including Anonymous (3), Marilyn and Tim Groves, Patrick West (in memory of Hevrin Khalaf) and our many Kickstarter contributors.
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