.66 is what #WOC make on every dollar earned by men.
.66 is #girlgang and #blackgirlmagic on full throttle. .66 is major side eye & shattering the glass ceiling. .66 is for 1966 -- when black women gained the right to vote. .66 is recognizing #intersectionality. .66 is a collective answer back! This innovative artist residency serves to address modern feminism, intersectionality and the on-going struggle against the gender wage gap.
The group of the carefully selected artists heavily engaged with the topic presented by Her Resilience through the month of July. Each artist has created original work that speaks to modern feminism, the gender wage gap, working as an artist, and building community. Their work will be on display at Qulture Collective for the month of August 2016. |
KaliMa Amilak is an Afro-Caribbean writer, poet, photographer, and aspiring performance artist. A native from Brooklyn, New York, she is now pursuing her passion in the arts through activism. She has also been working on her photojournalistic series entitled, Evoke the Goddess and her upcoming blog, Q.U.E.E.N, which are platforms for self expression and celebration for women sharing their life experiences of evoking the goddesses within as a cultural movement of empowerment.
You can connect with KaliMa on facebook. |
Pavitra Eshwar is a self-taught fine artist from San Francisco, that dabbles in abstract expressionistic & post impressionistic/fauvist styles of art - the common thread connecting her portfolio being a strong original style combining paint & nib & a stylishly vibrant color palette. She uses art as a means to channel diverse influences from people & matters of the heart into a palpable form that evokes powerful dialog & her influences range from thriving sentiments of the world population to soft encounters & observations that are personal to her. A fine storyteller, artist, mother & active philanthropist, her art pieces tend towards being multidimensional like her, in that each in the audience can experience a facet of it on their own terms. Her work seeks to explore curiosities, push boundaries & skew perceptions and in a way reinterpret convention.
You can connect with Pavitra on facebook. |
Mujer Muralista is a muralist and educator from Oakland, facilitating mural workshops since 2005. She is the founder of the Do you see me movement, a global project that reclaims the narrative of women of color through mural activism. As a self taught artist, Mujer Muralista is heavily influenced by her Native American & Mestiza diaspora and utilizes her art as resilience to empower herself and others. Mujer Muralista lives in Oakland with her husband.
Check out Mujer Muralista's website at: doyouseememovement.org |
Suchitra Sharma is an interdisciplinary artist living and working in Bay Area. Subjects of her work includes Sexual Violence, Gender Identity, modern feminism, social constructs and wage gap. To support her ideas she often takes multidisciplinary approach from drawing, printmaking , painting, video. Through the forum of .66 residency she has created a body of work where she relates the current gender wage gap as a much deeper issue of social oppression not just of women but anyone who is defying the social constructs around gender, beauty, marriage, family and disability. With the end of the residency Suchitra continues to show concern towards and depict the facade of deep-rooted social law wrapping manifested in her work.
Check out Suchitra's website at: suchitrasharma.net |
Jahneah Taylor Personified as a Queer Melanated woman, Jahneah is a social artist rooted in the Bay Area. With 15 years of artistic experience, she’s had work shown in Oakland’s Museum of California Art, Emeryville’s City Hall, and awarded by City Congresswoman Barbara Lee. Coming from a dysfunctional family that later sent her through trials and court dates for her freedom, Jahneah overcomes the stigma of what’s expected of her as a product of society. Now working with the Oakland Mind artist Collective, she aims to use her platform to raise collective consciousness of the many forms of power we all have as living members in society. “Can’t nobody tell me shit. We are NOT powerless.”
You can follow Jahneah on social media at @OoopsSheKnows |
Valencia Monroe is from LA who recently moved to San Francisco to attend Academy of Arts University. A dedicated artist she earned the opportunity to work with Timothy Washington and Nery Lemus, professional artists who helped her to enhance her technique and find her niche in artistic style. She creates to capture her audience with a powerful boldness, leaving viewers inspired and informed. Her goal as an artist is to be bioluminescent to guide this world out of darkness. She strives to be the voice of both women and her generation who are afraid to speak out.
You can follow Valencia on social media at @Monroeart.co |
Spike Dougherty is a queer poet residing in Oakland, CA.
Her work can be found online at claydoughworks.tumblr.com. |