Women's Work was my assignment

Brain Pickings by Maria Parpovo, is one of my favorite e-newsletters and websites, click on logo to link. 

I find it thought provoking and inspirational. This edition has an artist's Manifesto which is a concept that speaks to me especially with the timing of my show, Women's Work. I can sooo relate to this poster ( click on image to see more). 

After the elections in November I had to say something- do something- paint something. As mentioned before and I'll say it again, "Lean in and get to work." Here's more from the website. 

“This is precisely the time when artists go to work,” Toni Morrison wrote in her electrifying case for the artist’s task in troubled times. “There is no time for despair, no place for self-pity, no need for silence, no room for fear. That is how civilizations heal.”

But in such times of civilizational trauma, when the book of life itself seems to have come unbound, where are artists — who are not only human but perhaps the most human among us — to find the fortitude of spirit necessary for rising to their healing task?
Illustrator Wendy MacNaughton and writer Courtney E. Martin offer a heartening answer in a collaboration that stands as a mighty manifesto for our time and a testament to the only mechanism by which the creative spirit has ever pulled humanity out of every abyss of its own making.
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