Ebb & Flow Journal Is Coming!!!

 

 

Ebb & Flow Journal is coming!

This yearlong immersive installation art display by Jennifer Weigel can only be found at Miami Art Works in Miami AZ for a limited time.  Individual artworks are offered by exchange for new unopened feminine care products and will leave as they are claimed, so be sure to catch a glimpse of this unique experience while it lasts.

Opens during the Miami Loco Arts Festival, April 21 - 23, 2023.

Worlds Within

I can't believe I forgot to post this here!  Time has truly gotten away from me.  Without further ado...

Worlds Within
Art show by Jennifer Weigel with workshop by Sarah Wilson of Sustainable Cycles
YWCA Cambridge, 7 Temple St., Cambridge, MA
September 3 - 29, 2016

Worlds Within will be on display at YWCA Cambridge, 7 Temple St., Cambridge, MA through September 2016.
The art show features mixed media works by Jennifer Weigel, a multidisciplinary visual artist based in Somerville, MA, whose works for this show are heavily influenced by Miriam Shapiro’s Femmage and Judy Chicago’s Dinner Party.  The show includes an advocacy campaign to raise awareness of the need for feminine care products & diapers among women’s shelters and public spaces.  Bring a donation of a new, unused product for YWCA Cambridge and enter the raffle to win an original artwork(s).  All show attendees are welcome to enter once without donating anything; donors who bring products for YWCA Cambridge can enter once more per item donated.

Sarah Wilson of Sustainable Cycles will conduct a brief workshop on eco-friendly alternatives to traditional femcare products on Sunday, Sept. 11 from 1 - 3 PM at YWCA Cambridge.
The workshop will feature information on LunaPads cloth pads and DivaCup menstrual cups as well as other products.  A handful of new, unused menstrual cups will be given away to workshop attendees, first come first served.

There will be a "Hey, Sugar!” closing candy reception on Thursday, Sept. 29 from 7 - 9 PM in conjunction with the raffle of artworks which will happen at 8:30 PM.  Ticketholders need not be present at the raffle to win but it is highly recommended since artworks will be offered by choice to the winning ticket holders present.  Weigel will raffle off one artwork for every 10 items donated to YWCA, while supplies last.  Raffle items must be picked up in person on Sept. 29 or Sept. 30 or be forfeited.

Mola from Panama

Thank you Christine Copenhaver for sharing this wonderful mola you purchased from a San Blas Indian in Panama. "They will copy pattern off anything. I imagine that some western woman left the packaging from her Tampax or Modess lying around and here is the diagram of the female reproductive tract - large ovaries on either side, fallopian tubes, the uterus and the vagina with a flower in the center!!"  I totally see it too - awesome find!

Bloodletting Installation

Here are some photos of the Bloodletting installation at Blue Jacket Books in Xenia, Ohio.  The installation will be up until August so please be sure to check it out if you're in the area.  A hearty thank you to everyone who came out for the opening, and especially for the wonderful vagonut by Alice Miller (pictured below with a photo from before the reception).

Bloodletting
solo art installation also featuring Wombs by Carlynn Forst
Blue Jacket Books
30 S. Detroit St.
Xenia, OH
March - Aug. 2014

Fannta Drummer

Fannta Drummer joined Life Blood Exhibit with the Gallery Visio show. Here is her piece, Parvati, which can currently be seen in the show at Black Door Gallery in Cape Girardeau. Smaller prints of the piece are also available. You can learn more about Fanta Drummer on her website here.

Artist's Statement:
Women from all over the world adorn their bodies in one fashion or another. In my image, I wanted to draw attention to different forms of beauty. The physical markings on Parvati’s body symbolize beauty marks and her regal, black skin represents the power of melanin.

Parvati is definitely a celebratory piece. She not only celebrates the strength of Nubian women, but she also celebrates wealth through tradition. Unfortunately, in our society black women are not viewed as objects of beauty, but more so as sex objects. This perspective, which began during slavery, is still prevalent today. It is important that audiences digest positive representations of black women in order to counteract the negative ones circulating in Western art and the media.

I took a fine point, black Sharpie and sketched the image. My goal was to provide enough detail so that the viewer could discern that the figure was a woman. Then, I scanned the sketch into Adobe Photoshop and used the program to reverse the colors. The black lines became white lines and the white background became black. Next, I added color to the beads to draw attention to the top of the image and to guide the eye from top to bottom.

Janiece Senn - More New Artwork

Here is a picture of Janiece Senn's newest piece Legacy (With All That I Am). This piece is the culmination of much of the soul searching evident in Senn's other works for Life Blood Exhibit and I am honored to include it among them.

Janiece Senn - More New Artwork

Here's a photo of Janiece Senn's newest piece, PMS.

Janiece Senn - Artwork Preview

Family Secrets

Dear God, I really need a baby monkey. Amen

Blood, Sweat and Tears

Here is a preview of some works that Janiece Senn has made in response to the theme of the show. These pieces reflect on Senn's history and experience as a woman to "bring home the bacon, fry it up in a pan, cut the grass, repair broken toys and hearts and cars and homes, on my own."

Please be sure to check out Janiece Senn's artist's statement.