Opening Party
Saturday, June 15, 5-8 pm
Women’s Work(s), showcases the work of six noteworthy contemporary women artists from the American Midwest, shedding light on the female experience within the art world and beyond it. Featured artists include Candace Compton Pappas, Dawnice Kerchaert, Erinn Springer, Heather Jones, Holly Branstner, and Kate Santucci. Featured artworks explore themes of love and loss, home and homesickness, isolation and connection, time and our perception of change, matrilineality and domesticity, the ephemerality of nature, and more.
The multimedia group exhibition features painting, photography, encaustic, sculpture, graphite and charcoal drawings, and textiles. Honoring practices historically deemed “women’s work” which were widely marginalized from the upper echelons of “high” art, this exhibition represents a reclamation of the expression and its meaning, and serves as a testament to the spellbinding works conceived by women artists, both past and present.