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SUMMARY:6-9:30  Jill Waterhouse Bill Doherty  Opposite (of) Sex Workshop – Library   Invitation Only
DESCRIPTION:Project Description:     Jill Waterhouse   Topic: Gender/Sexual Equality (Reconciliation) \n“We are so much more than this…” is an examination and exploration of the changes and challenges – for both men and women – embedded in the exploding new paradigm around gender equity\, sexual equality and healthy boundaries and the subsequent necessity to redefine the roles and relationships between men and women. In addition\, it examines the stereotypes that both sexes have about each other – and themselves – and offers up another lens through which to view these deeply held preconceptions. Lastly\, my hope is that this piece and the development and workshop(s) around the topic will encourage honest dialogue between the sexes on how men and women can negotiate the delicate and tricky terrain we now find ourselves in\, so that we not only do not lose ourselves\, but might find ourselves anew. \n“We are so much more than this…” will be a mixed media sculptural installation with two life sized figures\, one male and one female\, set in relation to one another.  The female sculpture is complete\, created from a vintage mannequin. (70”H x 30”W x 30”D.) The male figure will be created using a vintage mannequin also\, though will be somewhat larger than the female piece. But\, unlike the female\, the male piece will be created in collaboration with my authentic and expert voices over the next few months. I am developing a process by which their experience and imaginations\, and those of our audience\, help me to sculpt what this piece becomes\, both figuratively and literally\, over time. I will use my interviews\, meetings and discussions with both my official authentic/expert voices – and the voices of everyday men (and women) that are authentic\, but not in an official or expert capacity – to craft and/or collect the images\, symbols\, text\, objects and physical shape that the sculpture needs to embody in order to more fully represent the male experience. \nTopic Experts:\nWilliam J. Doherty\, Ph.D.\, Professor of Family Social Science\, U of MN\, MN. Phone: 612-625-4752 http://www.cehd.umn.edu/fsos/directory/DohertyB.asp\,   www.better-angels.org \nWorkshop:\nWaterhouse is working with Dr. Bill Doherty of Better Angels to create an intense workshop dialogue between men and women to examine the challenges and changes embedded in the exploding new paradigm around gender equity\, sexual equality and healthy boundaries triggered by the #MeToo movement. \nTheir work together will be loosely based on Dr. Doherty’s renowned work with Better Angels to bring together people from opposite sides of the American political spectrum for honest and meaningful dialogue to help bridge the gap between their viewpoints and/or beliefs. Using that same model of respect\, real listening and openness\, Dr. Doherty and Waterhouse will moderate what could be a difficult\, but ultimately powerful and meaningful discussion between the sexes to try to talk about what we never seem to talk about: our real expectations\, hopes\, and fears for our relationships with each other\, be they friendships\, familial or intimate. \nIn the spirit of that model\, the “Opposite Sex” workshop dialogue will train participants in the protocol of an open dialogue and ask each of them to commit to both listening to the other side and being open to their experience and stories. They will do so in a “fishbowl” model with each side alternately in the fishbowl talking and the other side listening. The point of the workshop is not to try to change participants’ opinions\, but to create empathy for the other side’s point of view and experience. \nThe workshop’s design emphasizes listening and learning rather than declaring and debating. We rarely get the chance to listen in on how people of the opposite sex process issues among themselves – that’s an advantage of this “fishbowl” model. \nThe process ends with the opportunity to produce something in writing to share with others\, which makes this more than a conversation for the participants. With enough groups producing documents in the future – if this model moves forward – perhaps there could be follow up for other action steps. \nJill Waterhouse (the one in the middle) has been a practicing artist for over 35 years\, as well as a published author\, performance artist\, community activist and curator. Her work is primarily sculpture\, installations and perfomance/social practice art. She has exhibited extensively in museums\, galleries\, and alternative spaces in the United States\, including the Walker Arts Center and Mia\, her home town arts institutions. Her work was also included in the 1995 NGO Forum exhibition in China. \nWaterhouse has been heavily involved in a number of large community/social art projects and public performances. She has been a long time member\, mentor and former director of WARM (Women’s Art Resources of MN) and a long time member and chapter president/co-president of WCA MN (Women’s Caucus for Art MN). She has also been involved with the Art Car and Art Shanty Projects for years\, a member of “What We Need is Here\,” an environment and arts group at The Phipps in Hudson\, Wisconsin. She has received grants and awards from the Metropolitan Regional Arts Council\, and the Minneapolis Arts Commission. McKnight/Annenberg/Horncrest Foundations.   Artist: Minneapolis\, Minnesota
URL:https://www.arttochangetheworld.org/calendar-event/6-930-jill-waterhouse-bill-doherty-opposite-of-sex-workshop-library-invitation-only/
LOCATION:Squirrel Haus\, 3450 Snelling Ave S\, Minneapolis\, MN\, 55406
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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SUMMARY:7-9:00 Shira Richter & Kate Fisher Mother of All Confessions  Click for Details and Reservations.  Pay What You Can From $0-$25
DESCRIPTION:The Mother of All Confessions – The Art Installation \nThe Mother of All Confessions is an open invitation to a crowd-sourced piece that actively investigates the concept of maternity. The artwork and conversations will grow and morph in relation to the participants’ contributions. \nThis interactive work will take the form of a modular “confessional” booth. Participants will engage in dialogues about the conceptions\, struggles\, and future of artist/mothers. The confessional structure encourages two beings to occupy a shared space; much like the way maternity requires that women share their spaces\, both internally and externally. This piece will also address one of the last conceptual taboos in art: maternity. \nThe Mother of All Confessions – The Art Installation (Condensed Version) \nWhat’s YOUR story? The Mother of All Confessions is an open confessional booth for discussions surrounding maternity and parenting. Come share your story and contribute to an ongoing and developing conversation about maternity and art. \nShira Richter & Kate Fisher – The Presentation  Read More \n ____________________________________________________________________________ \nIRON MAIDEN  by Feminist artivist Shira Richter \n(Baby Bottle nipples\, or Madonna’s breast plates\, whichever you fancy)- \nFemale gaze photography \nPart of large scale installation project INVISIBLE INVALUABLES (link) about the real value of invisible care work. \n129X87 Centimeters. Color print\, framed. \n(Not digitally manipulated). \nPrice includes frame: 580$ \nThis photograph is part of Richter’s large scale\, exquisite installation project; INVISIBLE INVALUABLES about the value of unpaid care work performed by mothers\, parents\, grandparents & other care-takers. \nIt is also featured on the front cover of the book COUNTING ON MARILYN WARING-NEW ADVANCES IN FEMINIST ECONOMICS (link)- published  by Demeter press. The book features several chapters about the various ways the groundbreaking book “Counting for Nothing” by Feminist Economist Marilyn Waring (88′)\, affected research\, policies and activism in the world. \nRichter and her partner\, Dr. Scheflan Katsav wrote the only chapter that merges both art and multidisciplinary economic research. It’s title is:  IF MOTHERS COUNTED\, STATUS SYMBOLS FOR THE INVISIBLE ART OF MOTHERING (link). \nThe project and her visual talk presentation about the erasure of mothers was also the only artistic project featured in the 8th national Espenet conference; “Who Cares” in 2017. And also participated in The timely Minnesota based Women & Money project. \nAlltogether the project includes 26 art works: Photography\, Lightboxes\, standing lightboxes on iron legs\, Photographic prints\, Video art\, sound and texts. \nRichter is an “artivist” meaning\, an artist activist\, and mamactivist- a mother activist\, who calls her art “a language” with which to simplify and visualize complicated academic ideas\, in the hope of making them accessible and aesthetically satisfying to the public. \nRichter has an award winning record\, is interviewed on popular TV and radio shows\, is published in several best selling books in Israel\, has created several viral facebook posts and gives richly illustrated artistic -story -talks in order to spread the knowledge in a fun and engaging way. \nCurious to hear it from the horses mouth? \n( a mother horse is called a DAM…who knew?) \nSAVE THE DATE! \nWEDNESDAY\,  OCTOBER THE 10TH 7pm-9pm : \nThe Mother of all Confessions (Link to event) – \nWith two artist mothers: Kate Fisher and Shira Richter \nWhat we hide is actually the key to understanding social and human authentic value.  \n  \nThis will be a sort of “undercover” visual dualog (double dialogue) between two different artist mothers who are located in different continents\, cultures\, stages of life and career\, and between the members of the audience. \n  \nKate fisher\, lives in Minnesota\, and on top of being a mom of two young ones\, a wife\, ceramic artist\, and… marathon runner (!)\, also thought up\, created and runs (pun intended) the pioneer Both Mother and Artist blog. \n  \nRichter is a mother of twin teens (male bodied)\, a human rights and educational activist who lives in Israel\, & prefers relationship over stardom\, \n  \nSELF BLAME IS TOXIC. I WORK AT CREATING INCLUSIVE SPACES \nMy authentic voice\, Kate Fisher\,  runs a successful blog titled “Both Mother and Artist” . Kate will be bringing a confessional booth to the project. Confession booths are safe places in which people can unload their burdens. The step to recovery is to acknowledge and accept the burden\, with compassion\, without that step the next step of rising above the difficulty cannot be performed. As artists\, we practice “Learning a material’s nature” Thus\, listening to the material is the first part of creating. This step accepts the material as it is\,and tries to work with the characteristics of a material. Even if we want to change the characteristics of a material\, we need to know it’s natural inclination. The confession booth serves as “learning the material” . Mothers can come to the confession booth and confess a messy house\, or having difficulty with a child.  Registration required.  drb@bridgescreate.com. \nAuthentic Voice    Kate Fisher  Calling her work domestic art\, Kate Fisher makes objects that are either for or about the home. Fisher received a BA in Art History and a BA in Studio Art from St. Olaf College. She completed her MFA at the University of North Texas. During her graduate studies Fisher spent seven months in China spread over two summers. She worked for Lawrence University and Anderson Ranch Arts Center prior to here present appointment. Kate is currently the Studio Art Technician for the Department of Art and Art History at St. Olaf College where she has\, on occasion\, taught ceramics and/or 3D foundations. Fisher is also deeply invested in a project examining how women have gracefully tackled the lively experiment that is being both artist and mother. Examining how these dual roles simultaneously impact each other both practically and conceptually. Over the past few years she has been surveying\, interviewing and documenting a cross section of ceramic artists who are also mothers. Fisher’s questions have covered studio practice\, time management\, life balance\, home\, relationships\, childcare\, and aesthetics. Her project site also highlights a mother/artist\, working in an array of media\, each month. Fisher’s project has also manifested in articles\, exhibitions\, and a group residency. To find out more please visit the project’s website at www.bothartistandmother.com   fisherclay@gmail.com \nBiography  Shira Richter  Artist/Performer   Topic: Motherhood: Women \, Men and Money\nA practicing\, multidisciplinary Research-thinker-Artist-Speaker who has been ARTiculating Motherhood/Mothering/MotherValue & Worth (care work) in the socio-political-economic and artistic context\, for nearly two decades. She is the Director of internationally award winning woman-adventure documentary Film “Two States of Mind” (2002) about women’s voices regarding the Israeli Palestinian conflict and UN resolution 1325. \nSeeking more communication with unlikely audiences made her develop traveling Visual Performance Lectures that connect cultures\, languages\, image\, text and context\, and are time/place and Shira specific. For instance “Hot Potato called Mama“\, about the erasure of mothers- performed at the Dallas Museum of Art with collaborative art project The Motherload. “Our Enemies realize our power before we do” about women’s coveted power- performed for The Mothervoices 1st conference (Holland)\, “Do we value our Values” about the gap between values and actions\, and “Being a woman who loves men and hates War”\, about a feminist wife and mother to/of men in war territory Israel- were performed for The Women and Money project in Minniapolis. Richter also curated a Video-text column for The Mothervoices project (The Netherlands). \nA long time feminist mothernest activist\, Richter is the initiator and creator of the first facebook page in Israel to call for inclusion of Gender studies in the formal Educational system and the first facebook page in Israel to question  educational system practices regarding homework.  She also curates\, organizes and facilitates panels\, teaches\, motivates and advises.
URL:https://www.arttochangetheworld.org/calendar-event/7-900-shira-richter-kate-fisher-mother-of-all-confessions-free-donations-welcome/
LOCATION:Squirrel Haus\, 3450 Snelling Ave S\, Minneapolis\, MN\, 55406
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