In honor of Women’s HerStory Month, I’ll be devoting articles about the topic to raise awareness about how artists and nonprofits are changing the playing field and fostering equality among all artists. Today, I’m sharing news about the “Ceres Gallery Presents #DontShutUp” panel discussion. This vitally important gallery is one of the many excellent resources  for women artists.

(This article was published in 2018) 

About Ceres Gallery

Ceres provides a showcase for women artists
regardless of age, artistic style or commercial viability.

Ceres Gallery,  ceresgallery.org, is a feminist, not-for-profit, alternative gallery in New York City, dedicated to the promotion of contemporary women in the arts. Ceres provides an exhibition space that enhances public awareness and helps remediate women’s limited access to commercial galleries. It also serves as a supportive base for a diversity of artistic and political views.

Over the years Ceres has encouraged artists, writers, musicians, dancers, poets and storytellers to perform in the gallery and take risks with their work that might not be possible in a commercial setting. The members of Ceres Gallery believe the arts provide an important social service – that art has the power to educate, enhance and enrich the quality and depth of people’s lives.

Ceres provides a showcase for women artists regardless of age, artistic style or commercial viability to exhibit their work in New York City. It is not restricted in style, medium or theme. Many artistic and political events are presented throughout the year with participation by gallery artists and artists from the larger arts community. The gallery operates as a democracy which means members vote on all decisions including the review of possible new members and they participate in monthly meetings to plan the overall direction of the gallery.

In addition, Ceres has a professional Director to facilitate the smooth running of all programs and exhibitions. Currently, Ceres has a roster of showing artists from the New York metropolitan area and from across the country with a small number from countries outside the U.S.

Read Organizations That Advance The Status of Women Artists.

#DontShutUp Panel Discussion

“Women are silenced every day.
It’s time to ensure that women’s voices are heard and valued.”

Ceres Gallery presents a panel discussion and Power Point presentation of over 60 artists’ work responding to the silencing of women and the raising of women’s voices, #MeToo #NeverthelessShePersisted #DontShutUp. The event was organized by Susan Grabel and will take place Wednesday, March 14, 2018 at 7:00 pm. Doors will open at 6:30 PM.

As stated in the Ceres Gallery press release: “Through interruptions, censure, violence, threatening behavior, both in person and online, women are silenced every day. It’s time to ensure that women’s voices are heard and valued.”

The Panelists

Katharine Bodde, Senior Policy Counsel at the New York Civil Liberties Union NYCLU specializing in gender equality and reproductive rights issues. She is the Chair of the Sex and Law Committee at the New York City Bar Association and teaches a course at Cardozo Law School on Reproductive Rights Law and Justice.

Brittany Brathwaite, MPH, MSW is the Organizing and Innovation Manager at Girls for Gender Equity (GGE).Girls for Gender Equity is an intergenerational advocacy organization committed to the physical, psychological, social and economic development of girls and women.

Joanne Mattera, artist, feminist and blogger, paints in a style that is chromatically resonant and compositionally reductive. She exhibits widely, maintains her popular Joanne Mattera Art Blog, curates regularly and won’t be shut up.

*Don’t Shut UP, is a further iteration of a month of programs and exhibitions presented by the San Diego group, FIG (Feminist Image Group), in July 2017.

Artists Included in the Power Point Presentation include: Nancy Azara · Sara Bennett · Meredith Bergmann · Marcia Bernstein · Jo-Ann Brody · Lynda Caspe · Pauline Chernichaw · Patricia Dahlman · Loren Dann · Lisa Mee Doherty · Susan Duby · Evelyn Eller · Loren Ellis · Everet · Phyllis Featherstone · Rachel Finkelstein ·Sharyn Finnegan · Ayana Friedman · Susan Newmark Fleminger · Elisabeth Frischauf · Betsey Garand · Laura Gelsomini · Joan Giordano · Carol Goebel · Susan Grabel · Luba Shapiro Grenader · Carol Hamoy · Marsha Heller · Melanie Hickerson · Elizabeth Featherstone Hoff · Leigh Jerome · Carla Rae Johnson · Susan Kaplow · Carole Richard Kaufmann · Mary Anne Kinsella · Helen Klebesadel · Stephanie Kosinski · Beatrice Lebreton · Linda Litteral · Cynthia Mailman · Virginia Maksymowicz · Willie Marlowe · Ann Marie McDonnell · Gonzalo Mercado · Cabell Molina · Laura Morrison · Marjorie Morrow · Toby Needler · Vernita Nemec · Ruth Bauer Neustadter · Gail Panske · Judith Parenio · Vicki Pacimeo · Kristi Pfister · Helen Redman · Kristin Reed · Louise Reiner · Marilyn R. Rosenberg · Pamela Shields · Susan Tunick · Jenni Vitek · Elizabeth Weiner-Cohen · Joyce Ellen Weinstein

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