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BA2b - Womanist Society Collaboration....

As well as the SELLOUT exhibition, I'm curating an exhibition in collaboration with the Womanist Society. I decided to do this after talking to another student about future projects. I felt that my practice relates well with the society, and it would be good to work with other students from other courses. In this project I have a students from textiles, fashion and fine art. I will also exhibit myself, but my work will not be as big as the others, as I want to be more of a curator for this project rather than both curator and exhibitor. 

 I also wanted to do this as a society event for International Women's Day. I felt that helping the society by doing an event like this would also help towards to work-related learning as I'm liaising with a group to create something big.

 The exhibitors I have are:

 Alice Hunt - Fashion design student, specialising in conceptual women's wear. She will be exhibiting crotch-less lace up trousers, with furry underwear underneath. Her work fits in with the theme of the collaboration as it is about reclaiming sexuality, constriction and the colour theme is called 'corporate barbie'.

 Salima Bryce - Textile Design student, she is the founder of the Womanist Society. She will be exhibiting some illustrations which represent what womanism is to her. For her, International Women's Day means 'to celebrate our differences because because there is no one way to be a woman. We are multifaceted, magnificent, 3-dimensional beings.' 

 Bethany Freer -  Although Beth is not part of the Womanist Society, I wanted to include her work as it's interesting to me. Her work is based on the imaginary space, and explores the issues and ideas surrounding this space of flux; as a utopia and an escapism. I felt that the idea of the utopia relates well to the theme of the exhibition as it's about looking for that perfect world. We as women are always looking for a utopia, a space to escape when we feel we've had enough. For the exhibition she will be creating a bust of Venus, the goddess of love, and will be covering it with a sheet of fabric so the gender of the bust would be hidden. Thus highlighting how gender is always assumed, and how by taking away the gender, it creates this ambiguity that we have struggles understanding. 

 The venue of the exhibition will be at the THIRTEEN A gallery, and the next steps will be completing a risk assessment, documenting the works, and installing. I'm happy with how the project is going so far, and have already faced some challenges such as not a lot of people responding to my brief, and having to change venues to suit the amount of people interested. This was a big concern for me, as I was worried that I wouldn't have enough people to exhibit, but I then realised that the exhibition should be about the work, and not how many people are showing the work. I'm hopeful that this event will help not only me but the Society as well in terms of advertising, and I hope people will come away from the exhibition learning more about why Feminism is important, and what Womanism is also.

The initial brief that I sent out to the society.
The final poster for the exhibition.




















For the poster, I chose to use the colour purple as it's the Pantone colour of the year, but also the colour of International Women's Day & the Suffragette movement. I also included a yellow flower as it represents the society and it's colours, which in this case is the colour yellow. I also chose to overlap the words 'FEMINISM' and 'WOMANISM' as  Womanism is a form of feminism which focuses on women's natural contributions to society and also the representation of women of colour. I felt that having the word 'Womanism' cutting through feminism signifies this, or at least signifies that it's a part of the feminist movement. 
Things to do next:
*organise labels?
*organise promo leaflets for society?
*document works
*complete risk assessments

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