I was asked by a museum to create a page for a coloring book that they could distribute to their audience while the museum is closed during social distancing measures. I ended up making 4 pages. You can download the film quilt coloring book here and print from home.
Video commission /
Screen Credit, 2020, 7 min 30 second loop
Screens at Stark Bar
LACMA
Los Angeles, CA 90036
On view February 5 - August 12, 2020
A 3-channel 4K video made from existing films, including Lotte Reiniger’s 1922 film “Cinderella,” Pat Ferrero's “Hearts and Hands,” and Pat Ferrero’s “Quilts in Women's Lives,” both of which are available @ New Day Films. Video commissioned by LACMA.
"The Art of Collecting" /
Shoshana Wayne Gallery
4835 W. Jefferson Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90016
February 13 - May 30, 2020
An exhibition of works by: Stephen Antonakos, Nicole Eisenman, Sabrina Gschwandtner, Michael Joo, Nina Katchadourian, Tadaaki Kuwayama, Rachel Lachowicz, Orly Maiberg, Mariko Mori, Rakuko Naito, Kiki Smith, Yu Jinyoung.
"Celebrating Suffrage: Women Artists from the Collection" /
Celebrating Suffrage: Women Artists from the Collection
Munson Williams Proctor Art Institute
310 Genesee Street
Utica, NY 13502
February 28 - April 19, 2020
Celebrating Suffrage marks the 100-year anniversary of Congress’s ratification of women’s suffrage, the right for American women to vote in all government elections. Overnight, this momentous event enabled the disenfranchised half the population to participate in the electoral process of American democracy.
The Museum of Art honors the dedicated tenacity of suffragists in organizations from the National American Woman Suffrage Association to the Nation Association of Colored Women to gain the rights women exercise today. All of the artwork on view is from the Museum’s collection or was created by women in the full-time Pratt MWP faculty. Women found unique creative outlets before and after they were officially recognized as full citizens of the United States. This exhibition explores the role of art as a vehicle for women, as individuals or in groups, to reflect, reform, or challenge social beliefs and political practices of their era.
During the 1800s, social mores banned women from attending public art schools so they found creative pursuits appropriate to their largely homebound circumstances. The works of art on view dating from this period demonstrate the various ways in which women transformed the materials and subjects available to them into works of art. These creative practices historically have been dismissed as minor. But quilting, watercolors, or silhouettes were all important means of artistic expression for women who had no access to the education or materials required for fine art. Leaping ahead in time to the 1970s, feminist artists embraced traditional women’s art, such as china painting or needlecrafts, and celebrated them as worthy counterparts to painting and sculpture.
Since the early 1900s, opportunities for women in the arts have expanded—more women have enrolled in art schools, more women have become instructors in those programs, more women are exhibiting their work, more collectors and museums are acquiring works of art by women. Statistically, even if women remain outpaced by men in exposure and in pay, today there are legions of women designers, illustrators, painters, sculptors, printmakers, and videographers who are innovators in the arts.
Celebrating Suffrage examines how women created their place within the larger art community, adding an important vision that has often been overlooked or undervalued. This historic anniversary presents the opportunity to celebrate the contributions to subject matter, materials, and means of expression that women have made to the visual arts in the United States.
Miranda Hofelt, Curator of 19th-Century American Art
Mary Murray, Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art
“Winter Workspace 10 Year Anniversary: Returning to the Source,” Wave Hill, Bronx, NY /
Winter Workspace Artists: Returning to the Source
Wave Hill
4900 Independence Avenue
Bronx, NY 10471-2899
January 19 - March 29, 2020
Since 2010, 111 artists have had studios at Wave Hill through the Winter Workspace residency program. This time of experimentation and reflection in the garden proved immensely influential to their practices, launching new and expanded directions. The work they created was often exhibited widely, finding new audiences, meanings and contexts. We are celebrating the 10th anniversary through the exhibition Winter Workspace Artists: Returning to the Source, on view in Wave Hill House from January 18 - March 29. This will include works inspired by Wave Hill during the residency or after, a video screening program, and a showcase of public programs that workspace artists have facilitated over the years.
Ongoing permanent collection exhibition at the Renwick Gallery, Smithsonian American Art Museum /
Connections: Contemporary Craft at the Renwick Gallery
Renwick Gallery, Smithsonian American Art Museum
Pennsylvania Avenue at 17th Street NW
Washington, DC 20006
Ongoing
The installation highlights the evolution of the craft field as it transitions into a new phase at the hands of contemporary artists, showcasing the activist values, optimism, and uninhibited approach of today’s young artists, which in some way echoes the communal spirit and ideology of the pioneers of the American Studio Craft Movement in their heyday. The artworks range from the 1930s through today and span numerous media.
"Cloud Chamber" at the Zuckerman Museum of Art /
Bernard A. Zuckerman Museum of Art
Kennesaw State University
Kennesaw, GA 30144
December 3 - December 15, 2019
Opening reception and tour: 5-7pm, December 5th. Artist Jess Jones and Stacy Ketler, Chair of Gender and Women's Studies, Kennesaw State University, will be present.
This exhibition includes the work of Libs Elliott, Sabrina Gschwandtner, Jess Jones, and Amanda Ross-Ho.
"Punctures: Textiles in Digital and Material Time /
Punctures: Textiles in Digital and Material Time
Squeaky Wheel Film & Media Art Center
617 Main Street
Buffalo, NY, 14203
September 20, 2019–February 7, 2020
Squeaky Wheel is pleased to announce Punctures: Textiles in Digital and Material Time. Drawing from the little-known but expansive history connecting media arts and textile production, the exhibition features artists invested in the material, critical and liberatory politics of their intersections.
From the Lumière brothers taking the intermittent motion of a sewing machine to create the cinematograph, to the punch cards of the Jacquard loom forming the basis of modern computation, and the role of sewing and gendered labor in jobs like editing and dyeing in film production, textile production remains an essential, but insufficiently unacknowledged formal and social influence on media arts. These underpinnings aim to not only explicate an alternate history, but are meant to find ways to speculate new futures for media practice.
Consisting of three exhibitions and public programs that weave into each other, audiences will engage with artworks exploring a wide range of practices including, trans fashion and domesticity; gendered and immigrant labor under global racial capitalism; Gelede women’s commemoration, protest and power as represented in textile work; speculative future-casting through Oglala Lakota knowledge systems, and more.
The exhibition features installations by Betty Yu, Cecilia Vicuña, Charlie Best, Eniola Dawodu, Kite, and Sabrina Gschwandtner, performances by Charlie Best, Jodi Lynn Maracle, and Kite, screenings of work by Jodie Mack, Sabrina Gschwandtner, and Wang Bing, and guest speakers such as Jasmina Tumbas and Jolene Rickard.