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The Contemporary Art Modern Project in collaboration with Fiber Artists Miami Association (FAMA) commemorate the centennial of women's suffrage in the United States, presenting: 40 Women Pulling at the Threads of Social Discourse–Fama & Guests
The themed exhibition Women Pulling at The Threads of Social Discourse, revolving around women and their social voices, was first launched in 2019, exploring how women artists utilizing textiles as their medium subvert the social expectation of crafting and instead take this soft medium and lambast it with political and social awareness. For the second annual exhbition, which takes place just before the climax of a tense election year, The Contemporary Art Modern Project has partnered with Fiber Artists Miami Association, a local textile art collective founded in Miami, FL, by Aurora Molina, Alina Rodriguez-Rojo, and Evelyn Politzer, to honor the 2020 Women’s Vote Centennial and create awareness about our duty to vote.
Works have been assembled using mixed media and the fiber arts to ignite positive social change. The exhibited works will be only flags, as the flag or banner is used as a metaphor or symbol of solidarity with the women of the suffrage movement in this exhibition.
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The marriage of the female artist to the textile medium, both outwardly and socially expected to be weak, are in fact, in the hands of these artists and affirms that strength lies in durability, pliability, and resolve.
— The Contemporary Art Modern Project founder, Melanie Prapopoulos
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40 Women Pulling at the Threads of Social Discourse: FAMA & Guests explores and unites fiber art, the intersections of femininity, race, and history, and feminist sociopolitics.
The exhibition exists as a mirror of the universality of textile work as intertwined with cultural values and the feminine experience, highlighted by the variety of fields from which the featured artists hail—one doesn't have to be an artist to participate. Invoking the suffragette movement while touching upon contemporary conversations about racial, environmental, and gender equality serves as a reminder that the "fight is not over", and implores the viewer to take action in a way that comes natural to them.
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Freed from the constraints of traditional art practices, fabric has lent itself to a wide range of expressive possibilities. In this exhibition, for example, the flag or banner is employed as a metaphor or symbol of solidarity with the women from the suffrage movement.
The exhibition, focusing on ‘the feminist lens,’ which seeks to be distanced from the language of the patriarchy towards a more gynocentric form of expression and placement in the canon of language, takes the subject of voting, burdens it with real experience, with lived and documented and translates the action of voting into the price paid by women in their struggle for the fundamental right of equality.
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40 Women Pulling at the Threads of Social Discourse: A group exhibition featuring textiles works by 40 artists in celebration of the centennial of Women's Suffrage in the United States
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