Downtown Exhibit UP, Motown Prospectus OUT as WOV ZOOMS into 40th

 

Christine Bethea, WOV; Abreihona Lenihan, Pitt Curatorial Student; Kate Lydon, Contemporary Craft @ BNY Gallery

This Anniversary year is shaping up!  We recently hung WOV: Celebrating 40 Creative Years at the BNY Satellite Gallery in Steel Plaza Station Downtown. Space is courtesy of Contemporary Craft, who is the official curator of the gallery. CC has been an on-going supporter of WOV for many years and is celebrating its 50th Anniversary this year in a beautiful new location! The exhibition will run now through July 25, then travel to Touchstone Center for Crafts, where it will run from July 31 to October 2, ending with the center's annual Open House. Exhibiting artists: Lynn B., Jo-Anne Bates, Ruth Bedian, Christine Bethea, Elizabeth Asche Douglas, Charlotte Ka, LaVerne Kemp, Ashley Jones, Mary Martin, Altha Pittrell, Dominique Scaife, Ruth Ward, and Janet Watkins.

WOV just released a prospectus to members and invitees for our exhibition, Magnificent Motown: Art Inspired by the Music which will be presented by the Kelly Strayhorn Theater on Juneteeth (July 19th)

Women of Visions, who historically only exhibits visual art by African-American women, has invited a group of African American men, also visual artists, to pay homage to the most iconic record producers in history, using their favorite song titles to inspire new works of art. 

Women of Visions has zoomed into the future! With the pandemic came new opportunities. More and more of our members are learning to use ZOOM technology. WOV held its first experimental Zoom meeting in May of 2020. Since then, members have been learning to adjust to what has become a vital form of communication in all facets of life. Below are images of some of our most recent Zoom encounters: A meeting of SPACE (Small Pittsburgh, Arts Coalition for Equity); and the recent Artist Talk by WOV Treasurer, Janet Watkins with the Curatorial Studies class at the University of Pittsburgh under Professor, Alex Taylor. His spring class sets the groundwork for WOV's 40-year Retrospective at UAG, a corresponding class with a WOV exhibition programmed by Janet McCall,, who will soon retire as Director of Contemporary Craft, as she takes on this new assignment.

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Key Zoom meeting with members of SPACE

Image: Psychedelic Shack by Janet Watkins 

Artist Talk via Zoom with University of Pittsburgh and WOV Treasurer, Janet Watkins

 

From the grapevine: The Westmoreland Museum recently acquired Divine Plan, by WOV Member, Tina Willaims Brewer.

Tina Williams Brewer with her quilt, Divine Plan