I can`t believe it`s our 8th year,
@anthropologyofmotherhood Celebrating our 8th year at the Dollar Bank Three Rivers Arts Festival, Anthropology of Motherhood (AoM) Culture of Care is pleased to bring you an art exhibition with a focus on Deaf and Disability culture and its synchronicity with the culture of care and maternal feminism.
This unique hybrid exhibition is innovatively designed as both an art space, an interactive amenity, and a place of respite for families with young children.
This exhibition is presented in collaboration with the Dyer Arts Center @dyerartscenter at Rochester Institute of Technology’s National Technical Institute for the Deaf. @ritntid and will be travelling there in late August.
THE DOLLAR BANK THREE RIVERS ARTS FESTIVAL
JUNE 2–11, 2023
Gallery and Feeding Room at 821 Penn Ave. Pittsburgh, PA
Public Art Installation at the BACKYARD at 8th St & Penn Ave
DYER ARTS CENTER
AT THE NATIONAL TECHNICAL INSTITUTE FOR THE DEAF
AUGUST 28 – DECEMBER 8, 2023
52 Lomb Memorial Dr, Rochester, NY
ARTISTS
Sean Alistair sean.alistair
Jenny Joanna Bartholemew
Anna Brody @danielstripedtiger1
Frances Bukovsky @frances_bukovsky
Aimee Bungard @aimeebungard
Annie Campbell @ceramicannie
Patti Durr @durr_patti
Matthew Forrest @matthewforrest1429
Laural Hartman @laural.hartman
Jamie Walters Kessler
Kigali Deaf Art Gallery @kigalideafart
Ellen Mansfield @_ellen_mansfield_artist
Nadia Naomi Mbonde @nadianmbonde
Alysa Miller @theflyingmustachio
Avianna Miller @a____miller
iele paloumpis @ielepaloumpis
Laurie Shapiro @laurieshapiroart
Sarah Shotts @sarahdshotts
Melissa Skyer
Angela Starosta @angela_starosta
Images Description: Backdrop artwork details an installation by Laurie Shapiro showing mystical ribbons of high-contrast colors, flowers, and leaf designs with the text information from above and below listed on top.
Thank you to our partners and sponsors:
The Opportunity Fund
The Heinz Endowments
The @dollar.bank Three Rivers Arts Festival
The Pittsburgh Cultural Trust @culturaltrust
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anthropologyofmotherhood.com
More collaborative patterns with my grandson, acrylic marker on canvas, digital processing. 2nd artwork of 2023.
"Practice any art....no matter how well or badly, not to get money or fame, but to experience BECOMING. To find out what`s inside you, to make yourself grow..." ~KV
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Collaborative pattern with my grandson, acrylic marker on canvas, digital processing. 2nd artwork of 2023.
"Practice any art....no matter how well or badly, not to get money or fame, but to experience BECOMING. To find out what`s inside you, to make yourself grow..." ~KV
#fineart #finearts #filipinoartist #filipinoamericanartist #pittsburghartist #immigrantart #immigrantartist #notwhitecollective #toptennycartists #notwhiteartist #motherhood #motherartist #artistmother #anthropologyofmotherhood
#deaftalent #deafcommunity #deafworld #deafartist
#Rochesterartist
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#REPOST @dyerartscenter In collaboration with RIT/NTID`s Dyer Arts Center, Anthropology of Motherhood @anthropologyofmotherhood, and The Pittsburgh Cultural Trust @culturaltrust is seeking works of art and design focused on Deaf and Disability culture and its synchronicity with the culture of care and maternal feminism. Artists and artist-caregivers of persons who identify as ad/Deaf, d/Disabled, Blind, and Neurodivergent are eligible to submit works in all media and innovative use of materials. Apply here: bit.ly/31P772f. Apply now! Please be sure to review eligibility, rules, and procedures before applying. The deadline to apply and submit your work is Friday, March 31, 2023, at 11:59 p.m. ET. For more information, contact Fran Flaherty, director of the Dyer Arts Center, at flfdac@rit.edu. To learn more, visitanthropologyofmotherhood.com. #repostandroid #repostw10
Thank you #1hood! The honor is mine 🙏🏽 Let`s get to work! 🤟🏽🤘🏽
PC: @emmai_alaquiva
ID: pic 1 headshot of Fran with black glasses and black hair, wearing a black 1hood Tshirt. The image has text that reads, 1hood Artivist, 2023 cohort.
Pic 2 is same headshot with a bio that reads :
Fran Flaherty is a Deaf artist, curator, and educator practicing in Pittsburgh, PA, USA and Rochester, NY, USA. As a first-generation immigrant from the Philippines, her work is centered in issues surrounding migrant family relations and assimilation, maternal feminism, & disability aesthetics that synthesizes traditional media and physical computing. Flaherty is the founder of Anthropology of Motherhood, an ongoing curation of artwork and design that engages in the complex visual, material, emotional, corporeal and lived experiences of motherhood, care-giving, parenting, nurturing and maternal labor. She is also the Director of Dyer Arts Center for the Advancement of Deaf Culture at RIT/NTID, serves on the Advisory Board of the Office of Public Art in Pittsburgh, and is a proud member of the #notwhite collective
#REPOST @1hoodmedia with @get__repost__app Fran Flaherty is a Deaf artist, curator, and educator practicing in Pittsburgh. We are honored to have her in our Artivist Academy. 💛🖤 #repostandroid #repostw10
Let`s do this! Thank you @1hoodmedia
#REPOST @1hoodmedia with @get__repost__app Introducing our 2023 Artivist Academy members! These individuals are elevating the field of arts and activism. Get familiar with these faces, they’re about to take over the world and your timeline! 😉 #repostandroid #repostw10
#REPOST @dyerartscenter with @get__repost__app Insert Missing History Here is a curator`s response to “Shaped by the American Dream, Deaf History through Deaf Art.” This exhibit includes 100 years of artwork from Dyer Arts Center’s collection, loans from private collectors, and recent donations. It attempts to address the “pressure on Deaf Americans to embrace a national identity” and “liberated deaf and hard of hearing people to create art from their experience.” While the exhibit shows a vast collection of acclaimed deaf artists, it is vital to note that Cutapuis aka John Lewis Clarke, a Blackfoot artist from East Glacier, Montana is the only artist of color in this exhibit.
Headlined on the front page of the international art periodical The Art Newspaper, reads: “A whiter shade of protest, a blank sheet becomes a cry for freedom.” The article explains the history of artists to include work that in its simplicity draws, resistance to oppression. From the Untitled white paintings of Robert Ryman in the 1960’s to blank sheets of copy paper in the hands of recent Chinese protestors, blank white paper or walls can, in its purity also imply the absence of…
Fran Flaherty, a noted artist and activist, upon her directorship of Dyer Arts Center, inherited this exhibit and immediately saw the potential to create conversation in the absence of… With three white walls, Flaherty invites visitors to view the exhibit, then contemplate the blankness of the walls and prompts us to insert our missing history. Paper, pencils, push pins, post its and other paraphernalia will be available for visitors to write about how their own experiences are missing from history. “We are inviting people to participate in shaping the American Dream. We want people to write about their experiences and add their statements to the wall.”
Insert Missing History Here will be on view from Feb. 1-28, 2023 in celebration of Black History Month
Dyer Art Center for the Advancement of Deaf Culture is located on the first floor of Lyndon B Johnson Building of RIT/NTID.
Opening reception is scheduled for February 1, 2023 from 3:00 – 5:00 PM. #repostandroid #repostw10
Today would have been my first Lunar New Year greeting as Dyer Arts Center’s Director. I would have talked about how I am the first AAPI director of Dyer Arts Center and how I am looking forward to organizing and curating exhibits at Dyer with more authentic representation of Deaf lived experience. However, on this auspicious day, I have to acknowledge and mourn the lives lost in Monterey Park, CA during a Lunar New Year celebration. Ten people were killed when a gunman open fired at a dance studio where people were celebrating the coming of the Year of the Rabbit.
I have many fond childhood memories of Lunar New Year’s celebration. My mother (the Chinese side of my family) always said do not do anything you don’t want to do for the rest of the year on New Year’s Day. Your attitude and actions on this day will set the tone for the rest of the lunar year. This is why we celebrate to welcome what is to come and set the tone for our year. I have taken that to heart and mainly do not clean house or do laundry that day. I do cook, because I love to cook and as I am writing this, I have a ceramic pot on my stove filled with pork spare ribs and the dough for my bao is still rising from last night, the noodles are waiting to be dressed.
While we must mourn the senseless tragedy of Monterey Park, we must also celebrate life and all that we care for. Celebration reminds us of who we are. Celebrating exalts our traditions and history. We cannot allow the hateful to take that away from us. So while I hold space for mourning today, I also hold space for love and healing. May this year bring us more peace and tolerance.
Gong Xi Fa Cai everyone.
Sincerely,
Fran Tan-Ledonio Flaherty 楊珮玉
Dyer Arts Center, Director
RIT/NTID
Image description: a ceramic on a stove with a green lid and black bottom.