WAYS OF KNOWING
SOLO EXHIBITION
April 19 - July 20, 2024
THE PRINT CENTER / 1614 Latimer Street / Philadelphia, PA 19103
PHILADELPHIA, PA – Opening on April 19 will be three new solo exhibitions, Nancy Hellebrand: EVERYBODYBEAUTIFUL, Stephanie Santana: Ways of Knowing and Martie Zelt: Land Strider. A Gallery Talk and Opening Reception will take place on Thursday, April 18, from 5:30 – 7:30pm.
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The exhibitions, organized by Lauren Rosenblum (Jensen Bryan Curator, The Print Center), are presented in conjunction with (re)FOCUS 2024, a Philadelphia citywide festival marking the 50th anniversary of Philadelphia Focuses on Women in the Visual Arts (FOCUS).
As one of the first national exhibitions created exclusively for women, FOCUS opened in 1974 and featured more than 150 exhibitions, panels, lectures, films, workshops and demonstrations devoted to women's art in and around Philadelphia. The central exhibition featured 81 artists from all over the nation including Miriam Schapiro, Joyce Kozloff, Faith Ringgold, Howardena Pindell, Louise Bourgeois, Mary Beth Edelson, Lee Krasner, Nancy Grossman, Yayoi Kusama, Joan Mitchell, Alice Neel, Adrian Piper, and Alma Thomas, among others.
2024 - 2025 A.I.R. GALLERY FELLOWS ANNOUNCED
FELLOWSHIP
A.I.R. Gallery is an artist-run organization and exhibition space in Brooklyn, NY. In 1993, A.I.R. Gallery established the Fellowship Program for Emerging and Underrepresented Women and Non-Binary Artists. The gallery now awards six Fellowships annually and has served more than 110 artists to date.
A.I.R. is an intergenerational community. Fellows receive professional development workshops, a solo exhibition, a stipend, and one-on-one mentoring. The A.I.R. Fellowship program remains committed to providing support for women and non-binary artists in New York City and to encouraging the growth of sustainable artistic practices.
2024 - 2025 A.I.R. Gallery Fellows
María de los Angeles Rodríguez Jiménez
Jurors: Stamatina Gregory, Marcela Guerrero and Sam Vernon.
RESONANCES: HISTORIES & COMMUNITY IN PRINT
ARTIST TALK WITH DINDGA MCCANNON, JUAN SANCHEZ & STEPHANIE SANTANA
May 4, 2024 | 3:30pm
PRINT CENTER NEW YORK / 535 W 25th Street / New York, NY 10001
In their interdisciplinary practices, artists Dindga McCannon, Juan Sánchez, and Stephanie Santana use printmaking to explore themes related to family and ancestral relationships, storytelling, and the personal photo archive. In this conversation, they discuss how they approach these ideas and how they engage methods of sharing knowledge, such as teaching, collaboration, and mentorship. Organized and moderated by Scout Hutchinson, Curatorial Fellow at the Whitney Museum of American Art.
2024 VISITING ARTIST | The bell hooks center
February 19 - 23, 2024
BEREA COLLEGE / 101 Chestnut Street / Berea, KY 40403
“The bell hooks center is an inclusive space where historically underrepresented students can come to be as they are, outside of the social scripts that circumscribe their living. We curate programs, collaborations and events that affirm these students’ sense of self and belonging—on campus and in the world. Our work is motivated by bell hooks’ famous insights that ‘patriarchy has no gender’ and that, therefore, ‘feminism is for everybody.’”
Textile artist and printmaker Stephanie Santana will discuss her artistic praxis, drawing connections to bell hooks’ assertions of photography and quiltmaking as resistance strategies that enable us to shape collective memory and construct transcendent radical identities.
Santana will also host a workshop inspired by bell hooks’ essay “Piecing It All Together,” in which bell speaks of the spirit of self-determination inherent in quiltmaking. Participants will develop quilt-inspired mixed media collages rooted in memory and personal narrative.
Funding for the visiting artist program generously provided by Art Bridges Foundation.
ANCESTORS IN PROGRESS
GROUP EXHIBITION
February 9 - 24, 2024
TEXTILE ARTS CENTER / 505 Carroll Street / Brooklyn, NY 11215
Ancestors in Progress will exhibit the work of ten Black women artists who move with the understanding that they will one day become an ancestor. Collectively, the artists shed light on values and teachings that ensure their people's traditions live on. They create work that dances effortlessly through time as they knot fiber, upcycle denim, and embellish cotton cloth. Embedded in their materials and respective practices lie ideas related to water, healing, spiritually, freedom, memory, and loss.
This show, in honor of Black History Month, is a manifestation of their commitment to sharing their knowledge with generations to come.
Participating Artists: Cristina Wright, Elvira Clayton, Hekima Hapa, Hera Ford, Isamar, Michelle Fleet Thomas, Nana YaaSerwaah Akuoku, Narkita, Nelise Charles and Stephanie Santana.
THE MEETING POINT
GROUP EXHIBITION
February 3 - March 30, 2024
BLACKBURN 2020 / 323 W 39th Street, 5th Floor / New York, NY 10018
EFA Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop is pleased to present The Meeting Point, featuring work by 2023 Kahn Mason Studio Immersion Project Fellows at Blackburn 20|20 gallery.
Participating Artists: Sade Boyewa El, Krystal DiFronzo, Bryan Fernandez, Fay Ku, Yelaine Rodriguez, Stephanie Santana, Gabrielle Vazquez and Chang Yuchen.
Open Wednesday - Sunday, 12 - 7pm