women Archives - Clarissa Sligh https://clarissasligh.com/tag/women/ Artist • Books • Print • Transforming Hate Tue, 01 Oct 2019 14:27:14 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 https://clarissasligh.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/cropped-5_Sligh_Self-Portrait_RedCrownCrane_3x4-1-32x32.jpg women Archives - Clarissa Sligh https://clarissasligh.com/tag/women/ 32 32 Women’s March in Asheville January 21, 2017 https://clarissasligh.com/womens-march-asheville-nc/ Thu, 26 Jan 2017 18:48:42 +0000 https://clarissasligh.com//?p=2241 On January 21st, I went with Kimberly to the Women's March here in Asheville. People gathered slowly. I had heard a lot of women say they were not going because they were afraid it might become violent. So we were really surprised when large crowds seemed to materialize out of thin air.

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More and more people began coming.

On January 21st, I went with Kimberly to the Women’s March here in Asheville. People gathered slowly. I had heard a lot of women say they were not going because they were afraid it might become violent. So  we were really surprised when large crowds seemed to materialize out of thin air.

ASHEVILLE WOMEN MARCH IN JANUARY 2017

The chant to “Make America Great Again” implies returning to the 1970s. Like many women, I can’t believe it either.

YOUNG WOMEN MADE THEIR PRESENCE FELT

They are our future leaders.

BUILDING BRIDGES

Things are better and racism is still a sore point.

HUMOR NEEDED

And it was provided!!!

PREPARING FOR THE EVENT

And Setting up.

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]]> 1984 Women Artists Protest Exclusion https://clarissasligh.com/1984-women-artists-protest-exclusion/ https://clarissasligh.com/1984-women-artists-protest-exclusion/#comments Tue, 04 Feb 2014 18:12:43 +0000 https://clarissasligh.com//?p=909 I shot photographs at the first Women Artists Visibility Event (W.A.V.E.): The Museum of Modern Art Opens But Not To Women Artists, New York City, June 14, 1984. It was a protest organized by women artists, critics, curators, and historians in the New York City area to demonstrate against the underrepresentation of women artists in the exhibition of “International Survey of Painting and Sculpture,” at the Museum of Modern Art.

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]]> I shot photographs at the first Women Artists Visibility Event (W.A.V.E.): The Museum of Modern Art Opens But Not To Women Artists, New York City, June 14, 1984. It was a protest organized by women artists, critics, curators, and historians in the New York City area to demonstrate against the underrepresentation of women artists in the exhibition of “International Survey of Painting and Sculpture,” at the Museum of Modern Art.

Despite the increased visibility of women artists by 1984, most were not included in mainstream gallery or museum exhibitions. When the museum opened the exhibition with great fan fare, of the 169 artists chosen, all were white and less than 10 percent were women. Women artists were incensed.

At the time, I was just becoming acquainted with the New York City art world and I’d learned about the demonstration from posters that had been plastered all over Soho.  Although the National Organization for Women (NOW) had been founded in 1966 and Ms. Magazine was first published in 1972, opportunities for women artists continued to be limited.

Included in the photographs are Lucy Lippard, May Stevens, Linda Cunningham, Emma Amos, Sabra Moore, Sharon Jaddis, and Alida Walsh.

Please let me know if you can identify some of the other people in the images, which are now archived at the Duke University Sallie Bingham Center for Women’s History and Culture.

 

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