#frameyourrights is a new ACW initiative. Exhibitions focusing on Voting, Reproductive Rights, Policing and other social justice topics will be staged.
First Exhibition Nov 4-7 2021
#frameyourrights Exhibition and Fundraiser 
All current ACW members are invited to submit an application to the Frame Your Rights Exhibition and Fundraiser at The Fox Den located inside the Solar Arts Building in NE MPLS 711 15th Ave NE, Minneapolis, MN 55413.
#FrameYourRights Exhibition focusing on Voting, Reproductive Rights, Policing and other social justice topics will be staged.
ACW is also aware that a boycott of all things Texan punishes all Texans. If you would like to help the women currently in crisis, please send a donation to: The Lilith Fund – supports the right of all Texans to make their own reproductive choices, regardless of income. https://www.lilithfund.org/donate
Exhibiting: Cory Favre, Ari Moss, Rebecca David, Natalie McGuire
| Sales | Payable | |
| Cory | $ 66.20 | $ 49.92 |
| Natalie | $ 724.00 | $ 547.02 |
| Ari | $ 780.00 | $ 607.59 |
| Lilith Fund | $ 470.76 | |
| $ 1,569.20 | $ 959.35 |
Ari Moss Sells 5 paintings in His First Exhibition.
“My experience with ACW has been nothing but positive, because of this group I’m able to achieve things I wasn’t aware I could do like being part of a art show. Meeting all the artists and seeing what they’re doing with their lives has really inspired me to strive to do the same, this last art show will be a core memory for me and hopefully for many others, I got to meet, listen and see all the unique art everyone in our community made” Ari
Artworks must have a social justice theme. If you need help writing your art work statement, please reach out to info@arttochangetheworld.com
First #FrameYourRights Natalie McGuire Project:
ACW leader, Natalie McGuire, submits her unique photography merging into her mosaic frame works to galleries all over the country. The work, Bridge to Wonder, was accepted into the exhibition at the Arcadia Art Show in Tyler, Texas. When Texas passed the law denying the marginalized their reproductive freedom (the wealthy can travel across state lines), Natalie felt compelled to take action. She wrote to the curator of the exhibit that, respectfully, she could not send her art into a state which would support such a trampling of “the right to choose”. Much to her amazement, the curator of Arcadia Art Show, Dace Kidd, responded that she understood and asked if she could install her statement on a black background, framed, in the place her work would have been hung. This was an encouraging outcome, but then so what? Who is this punishing? ACW is going two steps further to help those who need reproductive services NOW.
ACW will be staging a 4 day exhibition in the Fox Den at the Solar Arts Building Nov 4-7 called #FrameYourRights. Details to follow.
Apply https://www.arttochangetheworld.org/fox-den-application/
ACW is also aware that a boycott of all things Texan punishes all Texans. If you would like to help the women currently in crisis, please send a donation to: The Lilith Fund – supports the right of all Texans to make their own reproductive choices, regardless of income. https://www.lilithfund.org/donate
Frame Your Rights Committee: Nina Robinson, Cory Favre , Natalie McGuire , Debra Ripp , Layl McDill, Barbara Bridges
Cory Favre- Artwork statement
‘Justice’
Oil on Wood Panel
10×14 with frame
Cory Favre
$250
‘Justice’ is an oil painting that I completed back in 2017 shortly after the trump administration started implementing immigration bans, anti-trans executive orders and a general push back against any progress in the United States. This piece is still relevant now. As a woman, there is still a fight to be fought to keep what rights I have and make sure my daughter will have those same rights. We are still a long way from real equity and it often feels like the justice system is broken.
‘War’
Embroidered Print
18×24 with frame
Cory Favre
$350
‘War’ is an embroidered print with a quote from the activist, Mohamad Safa in which he is speaking on the newest abortion ban on pregnant bodies in Texas. I felt the quote was straight to the point and speaks to the constant struggle women and those who need reproductive care have always faced. There are no laws on a man’s body.
Rebecca David Artwork Statements
Into the Blue
Stoneware, wall hanging
16” x 16 “x 6”
Rebecca David
$240
“Dysfunctional Function”. A personal can be vibrant, bright and nearly whole according to societal standards, yet upon closer examination show the signs and symptoms of a past, present, or future psychotic break. This by no means takes away from beauty of the individual. Are you sure it’s just another pretty bowl?
Redemption
Stoneware, wall hanging
12” x 11“x 1”
Rebecca David
$205
“Dysfunctional Function”. A personal can be vibrant, bright and nearly whole according to societal standards, yet upon closer examination show the signs and symptoms of a past, present, or future psychotic break. This by no means takes away from beauty of the individual. Various studies have made a genetic connection in the predisposition of an individual to present with certain mental illnesses.
Enough Blue to Make a Pair of Pants
Stoneware, wall hanging
10” x 10 ½ “x 2”
Rebecca David
$215
“Dysfunctional Function”. If you asked my Grandma if it was going to rain, she would tell you to look up at the sky and see if there was enough blue to make a pair of pants.
Can You Hear It?
Stoneware, wall hanging
9” x 9 “x 9”
Rebecca David
$90
“Dysfunctional Function”. Sometimes you just have to listen.
Ari Artwork Statements
Distrust 2003
12×12
Acrylic Paint
Ari
$200.00
The hand that touches without consent cracks the soul causing it to bleed and dull. The very world becomes dark and distrustful. To some you are nothing, but a number added to a pile of victims. It hurts knowing if the hands had just understood that no means no the star in your chest wouldn’t be so cracked.
Watery Beginnings
18×14
Acrylic Paint
Ari
$350.00
We are made from stardust and our aquatic ancestors need to start a new. We have our everyday struggles, and we have anchored trauma deep in the depths of our souls drowning out anything else. The tears we should know our reminder of our past watery homes in what our ancestors did the fight for a better environment after struggling so hard in the dark. That’s what this painting is about.
TW
12×12
Acrylic Pain
Ari
$100.00
I said No!
Live, Laugh, Love
20×16
Acrylic Painting
Ari
$100.00
Be happy, don’t worry, be positive forget everything bad and appreciate your life. Smell the flowers, look at the nice house be happy and forget. Take a deep breath love others forget the bad. Cover up the wounds with glitter forget its there. Watch the sunset. Forget be happy, don’t be sad. Do you see your loved ones are crying? Make them laugh and forget. Force them to be happy, they have to be happy. The flowers are wilting you weren’t spreading daisies you’re choking out the sunflowers with your need to weed out the “bad”. You’re hurting them. Toxic positivity. Can you see how it’s hurting the ones that feel like home?
Chained memory’s
12×12
Acrylic Painting
Ari
$130.00
You are not what others perceived. Your medical records may think they know what you are, but your soul is telling you the facts. Some may say that the chains will keep you down, but these chains lift you up proudly showing off the memories you filled your soul with. Some people are afraid of a unkept fire but the one in your heart needs to be fed so that you may become a beacon for those who aren’t as sure of what they’ll fill themselves up with. Be a safe haven and take a safety pin from me to you.
Treat it like a weed
20×16
Acrylic Painting
Ari
$200.00
Who decided who is the weed and who is a flower? Both grow on the same land. Every plant needs a fertilizer what supplies it? For some it’s God, others it’s found family or the neighborhood cat that visits your house. Unfortunately, there are flowers who believe they are weeds and try to pull themselves out of the earth before they can find themselves and see they deserve to grow it’s hard to keep your roots in but please stay planted. Can you guess who the fish are? It’s the kids I grew up next to, your children, your friends and family. Many students based their worth on their grades even people who are successful get crushed under the pressure remember even fish can drown in the wrong water.
Not yours
24×12
Acrylic Painting
Ari
$250.00
It’s hard to stay grounded especially if everything seems so bland. It’s difficult to stay still and live life and not go out to fight the monsters but sometimes during those quests you end up hurting the ones your love. But you truly believe you’re doing a great task and you are untouchable that nothing bad will happen. Sooner or later you’ll “wake up” and realize you’ve left a mess and can’t run from it. I have bipolar disorder and sometimes I struggle with sticking mortal this painting depicts how I feel.
Natalie McGuire’s Artwork Statements
Bridge To Wonder, is the image that started this call to action, see phrase below of what is on the back on my Empty Frame I sent AASH instead of this Whimsical infrared image of a bridge that has you wonder.
the image you see before you is an empty frame instead of “Bridge to Wonder,” an image that captures my soul and the way I see life to be; as a female artist, I cannot with goodwill send my art to a state that doesn’t recognize women as equals or allow them control over their own bodies. I choose to stand in Solidarity with the women of Texas and other states.
Danger, I found this sign walking along Mississippi River Road in Saint Paul; I found this sign warning me of the appending Danger of the cliff’s edge. This sign defines Covid-19 and Civil unrest and now attack on Women’s right to choose. We are entering dangerous times and need to stand up for all Equality.