Barbara Siegel featured in Rocks and Minerals Magazine!

New York member Barbara Siegel has been featured in the March/April issue of Rocks and Minerals Magazine! The article New York City Mineral Artist: Barbara Siegel [click to download PDF of the article] by Susan Robinson provides  wonderful insight on Siegel's exhibition Rock Stars that was on view at A.I.R. Gallery from May 27-June 21, 2009.

Siegel's biographic mixed media installations explore the life of exceptional individuals. Rock Star was on famous mineralogist Clifford Frondel (1907-2002). In this installation Siegel connected Frondel's complex mineralogical practice with the importance of rocks and minerals on poets, song writers, and leagues of ordinary folk that cherish their collections.

 "Forty-Eight", 2008-9, mixed media, dimensions variable 

from Rock Star

Congratulations on the wonderful article Barbara! It is great how the exhibition has reached different communities!

-Stephanie

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Panel: Invisibility to Visibility: Are Museums Opening Up to Women Artists?

At the Brooklyn Museum 

2-4pm 

Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Auditorium, 3rd Floor

Presented by A.I.R. Gallery, the Feminist Art Project, and Institute for Women and Art, Rutgers

Invisibility to Visibility:

Are Museums Opening Up to Women Artists?

Part of a two panel series, The Issues of the Moment: What is the Future for Women Artists? For the third year, this series considers the most current critical issues and concerns for women artists, and celebrates Women in the Arts during National Women's History Month. 

The 2010 panel series will address funding for women artists' projects and recent museum exhibitions that highlight women artists' work. Looking to the future, the panels will address such questions as: In the current economy, have opportunities for women artists diminished or increased? Do recent surveys at major museums mean increased visibility for all women artists? How are museums re-envisioning their permanent collections? Are women gaining ground on the walls of museums and in permanent collections?

Introduction by Elizabeth A. Sackler

Panelists: Chrissie Iles, Curator, The Whitney Museum of American Art; David Revere McFadden, Curator, The Museum of Art and Design; Alexandra Schwartz, Coordinator of the Modern Women's Project at the The Museum of Modern Art; Jorge Daniel Veneciano, Director of the Sheldon Museum of Art. - Confirmed to Date

Moderated by Ferris Olin , Co-Director, Rutgers Institute for Women and Art, and Kat Griefen

Free with Museum Admission

Hope to see you there!!

-Stephanie 

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Holly Bynoe's MFA Thesis Show - 40ºN 74ºW / 13ºN 61ºW

Holly Bynoe is one of A.I.R.'s wonderful interns. Holly is a photographer studying ICP|Bard.

Here is a description by Holly. To read the rest you can visit her blog.

Spanning the mediums of Photography, Video and Writing, 40ºN 74ºW / 13ºN 61ºW confronts the nomadic journey of the displaced that intermingles and resides in the “homeless” metropolitan. Through its assemblages, genealogical research and mining of archival imagery, the exhibition interrogates and highlights the tension between past and present. The question of kinship, and of finding oneself “in between” becomes a metaphor for the marooned and uprooted.

Her thesis show 40ºN 74ºW / 13ºN 61ºW opens this Friday [March 19th] from 6-10pm and is on view March 20th 11am-5pm. 

At the ICP|Bard Studios 24-20 Jackson Ave. 3rd Floor. Long Island City, NY.

7|G to 45th RD- Court Square or the
E|V to 23RD St-ELY Avenue.


Go check out her amazing work!

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National Abortion Access Bowl-A-Thon!

Monday April 26th @ 7pm - The Gutter Bowling Alley and Bar [200 N.14th St. Brooklyn, NY]

Help make reproductive rights a reality for women who can't afford to pay for an abortion!

A.I.R's Director Kat Griefen, and Executive Assistant Simone Meltesen will be on a team Bowl for Choice.  To donate to their team click here, or you can register your own team, or participate as an individual!  Throughout April there will be 20 different bowl-a-thons throughout the country to strike down barriers to abortion access.

Abortion procedures range from $523 at 10 weeks gestation to $1339 at 20 weeks. Along with the high cost, women face restrictions on abortion care and funding. This discriminates against poor women, women of color, younger women, and rural women.

The NNAF [National Network of Abortion Funds] was found in 1993 and grew to a network over 100 organizations in 40 states. In 2008 NYAAF [New York Abortion Access Fund] assisted 71 women who needed help paying for their abortions, pledging over $48,000. In addition to helping local women, NYAAF has assisted women from out of state covering the procedures in New York because it is more affordable, or there are no abortion providers in their home state. Clients ranged from teenagers to mothers in their 40s, the average age being 23 years old. Many of these women were already mothers and did not wish to have more children for a variety of reasons, including feeling unable to afford another child. Other women felt that they were too young to raise a child. Most of the women that NYAAF funds are too poor to pay for abortion procedures, but not poor enough to obtain public health insurance coverage [NY and 16 other states provide abortion coverage under Medicaid].

NYAAF's operating costs are paid for by board member contributions. 100% of your contribution goes directly to assisting women!

Hope you donate or participate!

No matter what reason causes a woman to seek an abortion, it should be safe, legal, accessible, and funded.  A legal right to abortion is meaningless if you can't afford to pay for it.

-Stephanie

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White Womanhood and Black History: A Roundtable Discussion

On February 25^th A.I.R. Gallery presented White Womanhood and Black History: A Roundtable Discussion with female artists/designers whose work touches on race, gender, and social constructs. This event was organized by Suzanne Broughel, a 2009-2010 A.I.R. fellow, in conjunction with her solo exhibition White Advent Calendar for Black History Month.

The evenings’ panelists – Noelle Lorraine Williams, Elizabeth Sturges Llerena, Zulema Griffin, and Daria Dorosh - discussed how they deal with white privilege and male privilege – and the intersection of the two – in their lives and work. The event began with a question and answer session moderated by Suzanne Broughel, in which each panelist discussed images of one of their works in the context of race, gender, history, and power. This was followed by a roundtable discussion amongst all of the panelists about how these issues have affected and continue to affect them - within the art/fashion community, the feminist community, and beyond. The evening included lively commentary and questions from the audience, and all in attendance received a printed resource guide containing notes, suggestions for further reading, and a listing of workshops and organizations relevant to the topics discussed.  

If you would like to receive a word document of the resource guide via email, please contact Suzanne Broughel at saucenine@yahoo.com.

Daria Dorosh, Noelle Lorraine Williams, Zulema Griffen, 

Elizabeth Sturges Llerena, A.I.R. Fellow Suzanne Broughel, and 

A.I.R. Fellow Damali Abrams

Photo Credit: Jayson Keeling

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...And sweeps me away - A.I.R. National Artists Exhibition March 3-28 2010

 

Judy Cooper

Nancy Spero

Digital Color Pigment Print  

...and sweeps me away is an exhibition featuring eighteen national members of A.I.R. Gallery curated by Barbara O'Brien of the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art. The artists in this exhibition Move away from the didactic to the interpretive, away from self portrait as image of self to self-portrait as a cultural snapshot. Many imbue abstraction and social import while others explore non-traditional approaches in their chosen mediums.

 

Gladys Tietz Mercier

Hunt Portfolio - Changing Seasons

Digital Print

The national members program at A.I.R. Gallery is an outreach initiative designed to create a national membership of mid-career professional women artists, or emerging artists showing exceptional talent, from across the country. They form a national network of support and opportunity for each other an for the New York-based member artists.

 

Joan Ryan

Waiting in Doubt

Oil on Paper

Opening Reception March 4 6pm-8pm

PARTICIPATING ARTISTS 

Carol Boram-Hays
Judy Cooper
Lisa Cooperman
Leigh Craven
Phyllis Ewen
Ann Ginsburgh Hofkin
Jan Johnson
Amy Kosh
Linda Kuehne
K.A. Letts
Gladys Tietz Mercier
Haley Morris-Cafiero
Nancy Morrow
Katsura Okada
Mimi Oritsky
Joan Ryan

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