Convening the Women’s Caucus for Art Panel, Patti Jordan asked: “What are optimal means to transcend histories and advance intersectional feminist art and social justice issues in our given climate?” In response, I explored how visual art strategies associated with feminist speculative fiction in art serve as creative catalysts for social and political change. Encompassing science fiction, fantasy, and Afrofuturism, speculative fiction (SF) is a literary genre of conjecture, in which authors imagine alternative realities in order to question current norms.
The Brown Dot Project
By LINDA VALLEJO "The Brown Dot Project" keynote presented for the panel Transhistorical Feminist Agency: A Matter of Gender, Race, Time, and Place as a part of the College Art Association (CAA) Annual Conference 2021 Data pictographs that illustrate the advancement...
Reminiscing The Medusa, Intergenerational Art Traditions, and the Unique Cultural History of Polish Women
By Sara Beth Woods Małgorzata Markiewicz, Medusa, 2020. Digital print on fabric. 450 x 300 cm I had the pleasure of meeting Marta Kowalewska, Chief curator at the Central Museum of Textile, Łódź, Poland during the summer of 2021. I was visiting the country...
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