"On a really bad personal day, I went to the Hyde Park Art Center to get away and just sculpt. I looked like shit, and did not want to see anyone. Almost as soon as I set up, I received a call from one of my colleagues there, fellow artist, Michelle was there for an opening exhibition and needed some help with her installation. I quickly packed back up and was eager to vent to her about my shitty day. As soon as I saw her, she hurriedly began to tell me what a terrible day she had, and honestly, my day was not as bad as hers so I shut up and I listened. I did not know there would be an opening, Front & Center. As I continued to help her and finished, more artists and guests began to arrive. And on that day, I heard so many woman's stories and it was those women who I invited to share their stories through their art and through text.
This exhibition was a continuation of those conversations at the same place where they began."
- Dulce M. Diaz
WOMAN'S HISTORY MONTH 3/6/2016-3/20/2016
HYDE PARK ART CENTER, 5020 S. CORNELL AVE.
FEATURING ARTISTS: MICHELLE WELZEN COLLAZO-ANDERSON X DULCE MARIA DIAZ X ESPERANZA GAMA X LISA JENSCHKE X RITA KOEHLER X MARY CAT TEPPER X DELILAH SALGADO
CURATED BY DULCE M. DIAZ
Mu.li.eb.ri.ty Memoirs features artists of diverse backgrounds coming together to share personal memoirs of living in their female skin.
Through statistics and various art expressions
- visual art, installation, photography, sculpture, mythological theory, text and film this exhibition shows us what it is to be a woman today.
Varying in age groups, beliefs and ethnicities this exhibition unites a common ground calling for attention to cure an ongoing struggle for equality.
THE HYDE PARK ART CENTER - MULLER ROOM, 4833
muliebrity(n.)
mu.li.eb.ri.ty
"womanhood, state of puberty in a woman," corresponding to virility in men, 1590s, from Late Latin muliebritatem (nominative muliebritas) "womanhood," from Latin muliebris "of woman, womanly," from mulier "a woman," which is traditionally said to be comparative to the stem of mollis "soft, weak;" there are phonetic objections, but no better theory has come forward. Hence also mulier, in old law language "a woman; a wife," as an adjective, "born in wedlock." Also muliebral "of or pertaining to a woman" (1650s); muliebrious "effeminate" (1650s); mulierosity "excessive fondness for women." In old anatomy and medical writing pudenda muliebria was euphemistic for "vagina."