Raices Taller 222 Art Gallery & Workshop presents

Mujeres, Mujeres, Mujeres
(Women, Women, Women)

 

Consider these facts:
(1) 60% of the students in art schools are women. (2) On the 4th and 5th floors of the Museum of Modern Art there are 410 works on display. 16 are by women artists. (3) The Guerrilla Girls, a women's artist coalition, has discovered that only 3% of the artists in the Metropolitan Museum's modern art sections are women and that 90% of the solo exhibitions were of work by white male artists. (4) Women artists make up 2% of the solo exhibitions at both the London Tate Museum and the Los Angeles County Museum. (5) 17% of the artists shown in New York galleries are women. (6) The perception that things have gotten better for women artists is false. The numbers in some cases have gotten worse since the '70s.

Do only men have artistic talent and can we afford to cut off the vision of more than half the human race? What if, for one day, women artists, dealers, curators, critics, collectors, art gallery receptionists, auction-house staffers, tour guides, art historians, teachers, and students refused to participate in an art world dedicated to promoting the work of male artists? What if these women didn't show up for work, didn't visit any galleries or museums and didn't buy any art? While most of the artists in galleries and museums may be male, a huge percentage of the backup is female -, as is the audience, if not the customer base. Could a day without women in the arts shut down the art world? You bet.

The women represented in "Mujeres, Mujeres, Mujeres", are daring both inwardly and outwardly - they continue to make art with the knowledge that art made by women has been largely ignored throughout much of cultural history. Their artwork ranges from traditional to cutting edge contemporary - a collection of painting, sculpture, photography and mixed media work by more than 40 local and international women artists.

Raices Taller 222 Art Gallery and Workshop, as this year's recipient of the Tucson Pima Arts Council award for Outstanding Emerging Arts Organization is truly honored to present and host this much overdue exhibition.

 

 

Opening Reception - meet the artists:
Saturday June 9, 2007
7 - 9 PM

 

Special guests local poets & writers group "Mujeres Que Escriben" will read at 7:30 PM !

 

Raices Taller 222 Art Gallery & Workshop
222 E. 6th Street
(1 block east of 6th St. & 6th Ave.)
Tucson, AZ 85705
(520) 881-5335
Regular gallery hours: Friday and Saturday 1:00 - 5:00 p.m. or by appointment
www.RaicesTaller222.org

Raices Taller 222 Art Gallery & Workshop is Tucson's only Latino based nonprofit cooperative contemporary art gallery located in the Historic Warehouse District

 

Current Exhibition Images

 

Past Exhibition Images

This exhibition is sponsored in part with grants from the Arizona Commission on the Arts, the Tucson Pima Arts Council and the National Association of Latino Arts and Culture.

 

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