Femmesubstantion is the inaugural exhibit at The Womxn Project Education Fund's new home, the A|R|T Lab. TWPEF is hosting this panel talk, led by moderator Erin McCutcheon, to go in-depth about process and ideas with artists Abaigeal Wright and Jonathan B. Izzard.

About the exhibit:

“The sacred transformation by which the feminine, so long rendered invisible or secondary, becomes the substance itself. Through art, ritual and reclamation, that which has been treated as subordinate, objectified and at times, vilified; now becomes righteous, powerful and liberated from the confines of our modern world. The radical alchemy of turning silence into presence, objectification into divinity, appropriation into citation and shame into sanctity.”

About the Artists:

Abaigeal Wright works with multiple Rhode Island based non-profit organizations as an artist, activist, and volunteer. She says "I believe in community activism and organizing and making art accessible to everyone."

You can see more of her art at:

Instagram: @abbywrightart
Etsy: abbywrightart.etsy.com

Jonathan B. Izzard is an illustrator and "a freelancing visual artist with a toolbelt that has varying skillsets" and says that "working in the arts is a major passion of mine and has been since I stepped foot onto this earth."

You can learn more about his work here.

About the Moderator:

Erin L. McCutcheon, PhD is the Assistant Professor of Arts of the Americas in the Department of Art and Art History at the University of Rhode Island. Her research focuses on modern and contemporary Latin American art, feminist artistic practices, and their connections with activist histories. She is an award-winning teacher, an appointed member of CAA's Committee on Women in the Arts, and a mentor in the AWARE network of scholars dedicated to training a new generation of researchers attentive to issues of gender and the position of artists who are women in history.

RSVP (Dec 13): A|R|T Lab Panel's on Femmesubstantiation

By The Womxn Project Education Fund

RSVP (Dec 13): A|R|T Lab Panel's on Femmesubstantiation

A moderated discussion of the exhibit with the artists.