Since we can't get together and you can't come in to look at the art in person:
Here is our current show: BRAVE100 featuring
All Art is for sale, please contact: [email protected] if you are interested in any.
Here is our current show: BRAVE100 featuring
- 30 artists
- 50 pieces
- over 100 years and 100 women in U.S. history represented.
- Some people created work that honors up to 20 women, others created work for a group of women, and some did a specific woman in history"
It's really quite an interesting and diverse show!
- Some people created work that honors up to 20 women, others created work for a group of women, and some did a specific woman in history"
All Art is for sale, please contact: [email protected] if you are interested in any.
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Sojourner Truth was brave. Running to freedom from slavery, she was the first black woman to take a “human" owner to court, for her son’s freedom, and won. She continued her life saving lives and inspiring equality.
Loren Dann Sojourner Truth $2500 ($1000 donated to the NAACP) |
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Gerda Wegener was brave. Wegener was active before and
during the Roaring 1920’s. She is listed as one of the most influential illustrators and painters of the Art Nouveau and Art Deco period. She was married to one of the first people to undergo gender reassignment surgery. Patrice LaJeunesse Dragon Rider $500 |
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Ruth Thompson is brave. She is a poet whose poem "Woman With Crows" inspired my work. The poem begins: "There is a woman who catches crows on her tongue.
They speak when she is tongue-tied." Laura Lyn Stern Message of Wisdom $350 |
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Kara Walker is brave. She uses her artistic voice as a way to create and speak out about the history of racism in the past and present. She also addresses social and economic inequalities that divide America, as well as feminism. She is known to use a method of story telling in her work by using cut out silhouettes.
Alaina Kalbfell Kara Walker $200 |
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Louise Bourgeois was brave. She was a major 20th century sculptor with a long life (1911 - 2010) and career, world-renowned for her iconic and psychologically sophisticated works. In my drawing I focus on her huge "Maman" spider sculpture series, of which there are many worldwide. I include a quote in my own calligraphy: "The spider is an ode to my mother....Like a spider, my mother was a weaver." I also link the spider as weaver with the Navajo Spider Woman weaver myth and its Hopi antecedents.
Ona Kalstein Louis Bourgeois $95 |
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Anna Atkins was brave. She was a scientist (botanist) working during the 18th century. She embraced a new form of study through photography which was a brand-new invention. She was not afraid to work with a chemical
process to make beautiful imagery. Sandra C. Davis Bleeding Hearts: Sextet |
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Rose DeLucie is brave. She supported her large family during the depression and WW II by working as a seamstress in a sweatshop in Brooklyn and laboring under outrageous conditions surrounded by toxic filth, thread, and dust. The men of the family were serving in the
war, but because of her sacrifice the family held together. She eventually went on to realize her full potential as a designer of women's hats. Diane Phares Charlie’s Sweatshop $2850 |
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Leilani women are brave. The Hawaiian name Leilani has a double meaning composed of the Hawaiian elements lani (sky, heaven, heavenly, spiritual,
majesty) and lei (a wreath of flowers and leaves); hence, “heavenly lei” Leilani women are very beautiful women who are kind and sweet and make others feel insecure. She intimidates others with her artistry hard work and kindness. Lori A. Raggio Leilani $550 |
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Dorothy Mae Mitchell is brave. She represents a generation of American women with elegance, poise, grit, and the savvy, not to make do, but to make happen with whatever she had. Dorothy and others are not known as inventors, scientists, or rallyists, but worked hard, braved hardships, taught traditions, built homes, led families while their men were at war, and set high
standards for all ensuing generations of women. They, she, are these and more on a daily basis, fostering the values, strength, and wisdom to create brave American women. Jennifer Belvett My Grandmother's Hands $135 |
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The Youth of Today is brave. Children and teens have their childhoods taken, for they still face discrimination every day of their lives. People of color face racism and fear for their lives when walking down the street. Transgender people and other members of the LGBT community are still scared to be themselves.
Hundreds of Native American and indigenous women are missing or dead. People of different religions are hated for what they believe in. Evangeline LaRue The Youth of Today $100 |
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Artemesia Gentileschi was brave. Gentileschi is notable for being a follower of Caravaggio and the first woman to become a member of the Academia di Arte del Disegno. She
bravely stood up to her rapist and risked prosecuting him in a time when it was dangerous to do so. In my own work, I have spent time exploring the societal tension I feel as a woman, reconciling my "masculine" traits (strength, assertiveness, impulsivity) within my feminine identity. Here I identify with this fellow female painter and choose to show Gentileschi shielding herself with an umbrella. I've given her a shield because, while we may be brave it does not mean we aren't scared. Nonetheless, she cannot help but peek around it the umbrella that protects her. Julia Mooney Artemesia Gentileschi $450 |
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Mary Cassatt was brave. She had to compete and prove herself to the art industry which was predominately male, even her father was an obstacle.
Maria T. Suppa Garden by the Creek $200 |
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Louis Bourgeois was brave. Her way of expression and
message in her artwork was brave. Her work focused on channeling pain, family, sexuality, death and the unconsciousness. As an artist, she puts herself out in the world to allow a connection between her art, herself and the viewers. Alaina Kalbfell Louise Bourgeois $200 |
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Alice Paul was brave. Despite facing force feedings while
imprisoned for supporting women’s suffrage, she participated in hunger strikes. She used this tactic, along with other Suffragists, in the U.S. and England. Marybeth Danowski Sacrifice and Honor $75 |
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Diane Arbus was brave. She was known for her images of
marginalized people, such as circus people, transvestites and those with disabilities of some sort. Her work made many uncomfortable and evoked great compassion in others. She worked to show proper representation of all people. When I first saw her work, I was inspired to show those with disabilities as no different that anyone else. As I have studied her, I realize that we both have the same passion. Joan Wheeler Perserverance $200 |
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Rebecca Sugar is brave. She is the first independent female showrunner on Cartoon Network who created Steven Universe, a children's show filled with groundbreaking and loving LGBTQ+ representation, including one of the first on-screen, same-sex weddings between two significant characters. On the show, she also explores the notion of gender in kid-friendly ways: the
show features a canon nonbinary character, and Rebecca Sugar herself is a nonbinary woman who uses she/her and they/them pronouns. Abby McGrath Made of Love $75 |
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Virginia McFarlane was brave. The artist's mother is
brave because, as a young woman with five children, she moved with her husband from her familiar and comfortable world in the Midwest to suburban Philadelphia. Like many, many women of her generation and previous ones, Virginia was a silent, unheralded trailblazer for her children, especially her three strong daughters. Her selflessness, sacrifice, strong sense of right and wrong, and eventual outspokenness paved the way for her accomplished and altruistic children. Jane M. Staats Virginia/Everywoman $5000 |
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Maria Gallagher is brave. She forced then Senator Jeff Flake to look her in the eye before the Senate voted to seat Bret Kavanaugh onto the Supreme Court, despite testimony that he had sexually assaulted women.
On September 28, 2018, Maria Gallagher stopped Flake in an elevator, identified herself as a survivor of sexual assault and demanded, “Look at me and tell me that it doesn’t matter what happened to me.” Katelyn Allen Look At Me $400 |
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is brave. In 2018, this 29-year-old waitress defied the odds, ran a grassroots movement to unseat a long-time establishment incumbent, and was elected as a Congresswoman in Bronx/Queens, NY. She is the youngest woman ever elected to Congress and has quickly become one of the most popular political figures in the United States. Running openly as a
Democratic Socialist, she has focused on the importance of class, race, gender, and economic justice in all aspects of society. Robin Brownfield Alexandria Ocasio-Ortez $500 |
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Julia Child is brave. She broke the rules of her time, creating a legacy, which goes far beyond her beautifully organized kitchen. Julia was a volunteer spy during
WWII, a disruptor and a feminist before those terms were popular. She was the first woman with her own TV show and the first woman inducted into the Culinary Institute of America’s Hall of Fame. Julia helped to advance the role of women in the culinary industry. Her study of French cuisine and interpretation of it for the American kitchen changed the way our country eats and empowered home cooks to be confident exploring more advanced recipes. Lora Durr Julia $1250 |
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Frida Kahlo was brave. In her paintings she expresses many taboo subjects such as miscarriages and domestic
abuse, with disregard to the negative stigma. Angelyah Sveum Una Mujer Fuerte $100 |
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