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Mary H. Dana
Women Artists Series
Upcoming Exhibitions
Never Has She Ever: Renée Cox
September 22 - December 8, 2008 Renowned contemporary American photographer Renée Cox, celebrates black womanhood at the same time she challenges the roles assigned to Blacks and women in our culture. She is one of the most controversial African- American artists working today, using her own body to celebrate black womanhood and criticize a society she often views as racist and sexist. When Yo Mamma's Last Supper was shown at the Brooklyn Museum in New York, Mayor Rudolph Guiliani wanted it removed and created a commission to restrict such works supported by public funds.
Never Has She Ever….
October 14 - October 31, 2008 A group show that features works by Renée Cox and nine other women artists who re-represent the female gaze and figure, twisting and challenging internalized notions of beauty and womanhood. About the exhibiting artists: Renée Cox, 2008-09 Estelle Lebowitz Visiting Artist-in-Residence Hanneline Rogeberg's paintings dismisses the limited binary female/ male gaze by blending a hybrid of female-to -female, male-to male intimate figures morphing and touching, heightening all human sensory modes. Rogeberg teaches at Rutgers University in the Department of Visual Arts. She has also taught at the University of Washington, Cooper Union and Yale School of Art. Lauren Kelly uses Barbie dolls, claymation and stop animation to fabricate elaborate props that act to underscore the tension in her characters who are close to the edge. The fictions between her Barbie dolls and real social issues in the psyche of Black women are blurred as she samples voices of friends and family members for her Barbie's voice over. Kelly's video "Big Gurl" garnered her distinction as one of four emerging artists to receive an Altoid Award 2008 at the New Museum. She teaches and is the director of the gallery at Prairie View A&M, Texas. Susanna Coffey's facial features are camouflaged with current global war reportage as she presents the human psyche in her paintings. Not since Frida Kahlo has the female portrait / self- portrait depicted such pain and agony inside and outside the mind, body and spirit. Coffey teaches painting at Yale School of Art and served as the resident faculty at Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in 2007. Cauleen Smith's films ask questions about what it means to be a person in a world that compartmentalizes humanity into modules of race, gender and class. She has received the Creative Capital Grant to travel to Lagos, Nigeria to produce her next feature length film. Cauleen Smith's short films are distributed by Canyon Cinema; her feature-length film is available for rental exclusively at Hollywood Video stores nationwide. Pamela Phatsimo Sunstrum creates drawings and animations of the accumulated self through human traces that connect us to places, landscapes and other bodies. The universal experience of travel and migrating shape-shifts her body and transnational identity, imprinting her body's residue as work on paper. She teaches at the Maryland Institute College of Art. Also featured are former Mason Gross students, Donna Brown, Jamie Bruno, Priya Nadkarni, and current student Shanell Betts. Special Events
Thursday, October 16, 2008
Wednesday, October 22, 2008 RSVP: events@rutgers.edu For directions to campus: maps.rutgers.edu The exhibitions have been curated by Judith K. Brodsky, Ferris Olin, and LaToya Ruby Frazier. The exhibitions and events have been organized by the Mary H. Dana Women Artists Series, a program of the Institute for Women and Art (IWA) in partnership with the Rutgers University Libraries, in collaboration with the Brodsky Center for Innovative Editions and the Visual Arts Department/Mason Gross School of the Arts. The IWA operates under the auspices of the Office of the Associate Vice President for Academic & Public Partnerships in the Arts & Humanities. Co-sponsors include: Associate Alumnae of Douglass College, Barbara Voorhees Leadership Initiative, Department of Art History, Institute for Research on Women, Office of the Dean of Douglass Residential College and Douglass Campus, SAS Office of International Programs, The Feminist Art Project, and the Women's and Gender Studies Department. These events are made possible in part by funds from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts/Department of State, a Partner Agency of the National Endowment for the Arts. Estelle Lebowitz Visiting Artist-in-Residence LectureshipWith the 1999-2000 academic year, a new program that enhances the Series was inaugurated, The Estelle Lebowitz Visiting Artist-in-Residence Lectureship. This program affords the University community and general public the opportunity to not only view the work of a renowned contemporary woman artist, but also to meet with her in classes and public lectures. Artists who held the Lebowitz lectureship:
History of the SeriesThe Mary H. Dana Women Artists Series, established in 1971 at the Mabel Smith Douglass Library, is the longest-running, continuing series of exhibitions dedicated to increasing the visibility of women artists in the United States. Formerly known as the Women Artists Series, in 1987 the Series was renamed in memory of Mary H. Dana, (Douglass College [DC], Class of 1942), by her friend, Professor Emeritus Nelle Smithers. The Series was initiated upon the suggestion of alumna artist Joan Snyder (DC, 1962), to Library Director Daisy Brightenback Shenholm (DC, 1944), who responded enthusiastically, and appointed the Series' first coordinator, Lynn F. Miller. During the Series' first twenty-five years, close to 200 artists, both acclaimed and emerging, have exhibited in the Douglass Library lobby gallery space and under the direction of other former coordinators Evelyn Apgar (DC, 1969), Beryl Smith (DC, 1982), Bonnie Goldstein, Karen McGruder, Elsa Bruguier, and Marianne Ficarra (DC, 1988). Dr. Ferris Olin (DC, 1970), has served as the Series' curator since 1994. In 2004, with Ferris Olin, Joseph Consoli and Sara Harrington were appointed co-curators of the Series. Since Fall 2006, the Series is co-curated by Judith K. Brodsky and Ferris Olin. Advisory Board
Contact InformationIf you would like to be added to the Mary H. Dana Women Artists Series mailing list, please contact:
The Margery Somers Foster CenterThe Margery Somers Foster Center (www.libraries.rutgers.edu/msfoster) maintains artists files for emerging and established contemporary women artists. There are files relating to artists who have exhibited in the the Mary H. Dana Women Artists Series and its operational history. In addition, women artists are invited to submit their resume, an artist statement and supporting documentation to be housed in the Contemporary Women Artists Files (CWAF). Should an artist wish to be included in the CWAF, they must submit their materials to: Dr. Ferris Olin, Head, Margery Somers Foster Center, Mabel Smith Douglass Library-Rutgers, 8 Chapel Drive, New Brunswick, NJ 08901-8527. These archives are open to scholars, curators, researchers and students who seek documentation about women's art practices by appointment. 
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May 29, 2008; August 19, 2008
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