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: ni@eilandarts.com if you are interested in any.
upstairs gallery:
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: ni@eilandarts.com if you are interested in any.
upstairs gallery:
Beverly Pepper was brave.
She was a major 20th century sculptor who passed away recently on February 5, 2020. During her long life (1922 - 2020)she produced many iconic works in iron and steel, and is a fine example of a strong, brave woman artist. In my drawing I illustrate my versions of some of her works, along with two quotes in my own calligraphy: "Other women want diamonds and fur coats; I just want to live in a factory." Along the side: "Everything in the world slowly converts into iron....I admire the sheer resistance of iron, its stubbornness." Ona Kalstein Beverly Pepper $95 |
Clara Barton was brave. She was a pioneering American nurse who funded the Red Cross. In the Civil War, she played an active role in distributing medical supplies, and aiding wounded soldiers on the battlefield. Her
efforts helped redefine female roles and awaken a sense of independence among women. Shreeya Kamal Clara Barton $200 |
Rosie the Riveter is brave because she represents a time in the United States when women were needed to fulfill jobs because the “male” population were deployed. These jobs were not intended for them. “Rosie” inspires women to overcome gender stereotypes and prove to themselves and others that We ALL Can Do It!
Jessica Miller Rosie the Riveter $1500 |
Zelda Fitzgerald was brave. As an American novelist,
socialite, painter and wife to author F. Scott Fitzgerald Zelda was known for her beauty, high spirits and helped to establish the Roaring twenties image of liberated womanhood embodied by the ‘flapper’. She became a symbol of freedom and excess of the 1920s Jazz age and symbols of the emerging surreal fascination with your conspicuous consumption and leisure Lori A.Raggio Zelda $300 |
Judy Chicago is brave. Inspired by Judy Chicago's
Dinner Party, a friend and I created this quilted pocketbook pages piece around 20 women from a variety of fields who changed the world: science, art, literature, music, anthropology. All the women chosen were special lifelong favorite heroines of mine. I chose fabric and sewing to reflect the long history of this art with women's lives. Acrylic painted portraits on water color paper. Jo Ann Wright Pocketbooks $500 |
Rachel Carson is brave. She stood behind her warnings on the consequences of indiscriminate pesticide use despite threat of lawsuits from the chemical industry. The book, Silent Spring, spurred a ban on DDT and helped to
inspire the environmental movement which led to the EPA. Kerry Mentzer A Feather Away $225 |
Angela Davis is brave. She is a lifelong activist, scholar, and once political prisoner who won her freedom after an international movement was formed to defend
her. She has heavily influenced the discourse on feminism, contending that the same forces behind women’s oppression are also behind oppression of people of color and working-class people as a whole. In her view, it’s not enough to just be pro-woman, because while suffering forms of discrimination, wealthy white women still have privileges and advantages that most people, will never have. Class, race, and gender oppression are integrally related. Robin Brownfield Angela Davis $500 |
Erika Lee is brave because she works to tell the deep-rooted history of Asian Americans in the United States in her book “The Making of Asian America: A History.” Chronicling the past 500 years and connecting to the present, it ends up being a warning of the current political climate and its cyclical nature.
Ashley Wu An American Narrative $500 |
Alma Thomas was brave. During a time of segregation,
Alma Thomas pursued higher education, overcoming obstacles and backlash to learn, to teach, and to dedicate her life to art in various ways. At age 70 she found her own stile and gained respect as an artist. She didn’t accept labels or conform to what was well received in the art world. She expressed herself through rhythm and color. Erica Street Valentin Alma $60 |
Elizabeth White is brave. She cultivated the blueberry from the New Jersey native high bush berry and created a new agricultural industry. She was also an internationally respected holly expert. Her home and
family farm are a favorite historic site for visitors in Whitesbog, NJ. Elizabeth White persevered in her passion despite many disappointments in life and in her work. Jo Ann Wright Fruitcrate with Portrait of Elizabeth White $100 |
Gyo Fujikawa is brave because she was one of the first
illustrators to include racial diversity in children&'s books. She wrote and illustrated over fifty books, including her best selling Babies, which was initially rejected because the publishers feared backlash and poor sales in the segregated American South. Gyo insisted, and the book was eventually published in 1968. Gyo Fujikawa regularly included multiracial children in her soft, gentle books, and her work helped to start the conversation about diversity in children's publishing. Abby McGrath Leading the Way $75 |
Ina May was brave. She is known by many as the mother of
modern midwifery. She has been a beacon of inspiration for me and many other birth professionals. She reminds women that birth is something our bodies are built for, no matter what we are told. This visionary woman could feel the birth-world shifting toward a culture of fear and she took action by making it her life's work to help women take ownership over the birth of their babies in a safe, dignified environment. Julia Mooney Ina May Gaskin $250 |
Alice Paul was brave. She fought tirelessly for women in
both the United States and England to have the right to vote, even when faced with jail time and torture. This portrait shows Alice juxtaposed with a symbol of the violence used against her and other arrested suffragists. Many suffragists were forcibly fed raw eggs through a feeding tube inserted into their nasal cavities after they decided to use hunger strikes to protest their unlawful imprisonment. Katelyn Allen Alice and The Feeding Tube $400 |
Georgia O’Keefe was brave. Her style was unique and entirely her own. There were very few artists painting abstracts at the time and her work received
acceptance due to her powerful images. She is known as the Mother of American Modernism. Even though she suffered from macular degeneration she continued to paint (at times with assistance mixing colors) well into her 90's. Joan Wheeler Pink and Yellow Orchid $200 |
Alma Thomas was brave. During a time of segregation,
Alma Thomas pursued higher education, overcoming obstacles and backlash to learn, to teach, and to dedicate her life to art in various ways. At age 70 she found her own stile and gained respect as an artist. She didn’t accept labels or conform to what was well received in the art world. She expressed herself through rhythm and color. Erica Street Valentin Concerto Reprise $80 |
Fannie Lou Hammer was brave. She was an American voting and women’s rights activist, community organizer, and a leader of the civil rights movement. She was the co-
founder and vice-chair of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party (MFDP) and represented it at the 1964 Democratic National Convention. She also founded the Freedom Farm Cooperative (FFC) and co-founded the National Women’s Political Caucus. She led the civil rights activism during the early 1960s. She was elected delegate to the Democratic National Convention in 1972. Dannette Strader I am Sick and Tired of Being Sick and Tired $100 |
Kathrine Switzer is brave. "Real Women Don't Run" is a piece that embodies equality, diversity and community, as well as the path of discrimination that women, and those who identify as women, have endured. Twenty-six women runners and a two-year-old have traveled across this piece representing the 26.2 miles Kathrine Switzer run as the first numbered women entrant of the 1967 Boston Marathon. Each print different in mark, stride, color, size and weight captures the varied population of women influenced by Kathrine Switzer's remarkable refusal of social norms dictating her desire to run.
Antonia Germanos Real Women Don't Run $500 |