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Current Exhibit - January 14, 2021
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The Town of Danville presents
traces
Featuring the artwork of Members of the Women Eco Artists Dialog (WEAD)
Virtual Exhibition Dates: January 14 - March 12, 2021
View this exhibit in the virtual tour of the gallery
We can see some of the traces humans leave: from magnificent art, architecture, and monuments, to air and water pollution, the desertification of lands, plastic clogged oceans, extinct species. In this exhibit, many of the artists are tracing their responses to these environmental concerns.
We can see traces of influence and action more specific to women, too. We see them: in the values inculcated in the children who women birth and nurture; in the attunement of women to the cries of the climate and ecosystems for attention; in women’s instinctual “heart monitoring” of the many species silently taking their last breaths; and in the honoring of women’s personal ancestry.
We can trace a lineage of women who bravely “kicked over the traces”, defying the harness of cultural norms and prejudices to demand the rights of women: to vote, to equal pay, to shatter the glass ceiling. And ultimately to demand the right of their children and children’s children, onward, to survive as a species on a life-sustaining planet.
The women artists of WEAD (Women Eco Artists Dialog) are proud to continue on the path trodden by those women before who raised their voices to protect and defend all life in the face of injustice and environmental violations. The WEAD mission is nothing less than the health and well-being of all peoples, all species, all life.
WEAD was created by Jo Hansen, Susan Leibovitz Steinman, and Estelle Akamine. Since 1996 WEAD has been a pioneering network of feminist eco-artists, educators, curators, and writers working toward the goal of a just and healthy world. The member artists focus on women’s unique perspectives in ecological and social justice art.
For this exhibit artists were invited to submit work referencing this “Traces” theme, as expressed above. The result is an array of subtle and nuanced interpretations that are delightful and surprising. The viewer is invited to participate in discovering the relationship between the artwork and the theme.
Traces
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Sharon Siskin - Water Safety - Hair Carry
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Sharon Siskin - Water Safety - Human Chain
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Amy Hibbs - Grapefruit
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Andree Singer Thompson - Ghost Drawings of Endangered Species
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Andree Singer Thompson - Ghost Drawings
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Anna Vaughan - Offering
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Belinda Chlouber - Breathe of Color
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Reenie Charriere - Warp and Weave
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Reenie Charriere - What Came Out of My Suitcase
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Christina Bertea - Tearing at the Veil that Shrouds Woman's Rage
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Christina Bertea - Calling All Carbon Home to the Soil (where it used to be)
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Deborah Kennedy - Plastic Plankton
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Deborah Gorman - Trophy (1 of 4) Cosmic Fish in a Cosmic Sea
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Michelle Echenique - Meat Map
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Michelle Echenique - Thought Bubble
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Kate Kuaimoku - Know When to Hold Them
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Marguerite Garth - A Death in the Desert #3
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Marguerite Garth - A Death in the Desert #11
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Mary Bayard White - The Lost Orchards of the Silicon Valley
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Melissa West - Reverberation Study
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Melissa West - Complicit
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Minoosh Zomorodinia - Golden Map
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Rachael Davis - To Imagine That Which We Know (Shelly)
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Regina Gilligan - In the Garden, Weaving Women
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Regina Gilligan - Giros y Contorciones (twists and turns) of Women in Science
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Susan Leibovitz Steinman - Earth Shoes
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Salma Arastu - The Echo of Women's Voices
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Susan Duhan Felix - Mama and Me 1938
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Emily Van Engel - Home of the Water Protectors
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Lorna Stevens - Winter Winds
Click on any of the images in the slideshow to view a larger version.
Read statements from each of the artists below to discover more about their pieces in this exhibition.
- Anna Vaughan Statement (PDF)
- Amy Hibbs Statement (PDF)
- Andree Singer Thompson Statement (PDF)
- Belinda Chlouber Statement (PDF)
- Christina Bertea Statement (PDF)
- Deb Gorman Statement (PDF)
- Deborah Kennedy Statement (PDF)
- Emily Van Engel Statement (PDF)
- Kate Kuaimoku Statement (PDF)
- Lorna Stevens Statement (PDF)
- Marguerite Garth Statement (PDF)
- Mary Bayard White Statement (PDF)
- Melissa West Statement (PDF)
- Michelle Echenique Statement (PDF)
- Minoosh Zomordinia Statement (PDF)
- Rachael Davis Statement (PDF)
- Reenie Charriere Statement (PDF)
- Regina Gilligan Statement (PDF)
- Salma Arastu Statement PDF)
- Sharon Siskin Statement (PDF)
- Susan Duhan Felix Statement (PDF)
- Susan Leibovitz Steinman Statement (PDF)
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Proposing an Exhibition
The Town of Danville Village Theatre Art Gallery plans its schedule well in advance, but is always accepting curatorial proposals for future exhibits. The Village Theatre Art Gallery is a 1,000 square feet exhibition space which opened its doors on November 13, 2009.
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Marija Nelson Bleier
Theatre & Art Gallery
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Village Theatre Art Gallery
Physical Address
233 Front Street
Danville, CA 94526
Phone: 925-314-3460
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