WILLIAMSTON, Mass. — On Friday, June 13, from 6 to 8 p.m., the Clark Art Institute celebrates the opening of “A Room of Her Own: Women Artist-Activists in Britain, 1875–1945,” with a free celebration offering guests an opportunity to enjoy light refreshments and view its newest summer exhibition.
Then on Saturday, June 14, at 11 a.m, exhibition curator Alexis Goodin, associate curator at the Clark, will introduce “A Room of Her Own with an inside look at the art and artists it highlights.
In her 1929 essay “A Room of One’s Own,” Virginia Woolf argued that women needed their own physical space in which to think and create. This exhibition celebrates twenty-five professional women artists working in Great Britain who found their creative voices and shared their work through public exhibitions and publications, creating change in London’s male-dominated art world. Through convention-defying lifestyle choices, creating community in their own neighborhoods, or political advocacy, the artists of A Room of Her Own enacted opportunities that helped them thrive as artists but also began the process of forming much-needed space—both physical and psychic—for their contemporaries, and for future generations of women artists, to practice their craft and flourish.
Exhibition curator Alexis Goodin, associate curator at the Clark, will conduct the opening lecture on “A Room of Her Own: Women Artist-Activists in Britain, 1875–1945” on June 14. The exhibition, a survey of paintings, drawings, prints, stained glass, and other decorative arts made by women artists in Britain, explores the spaces women claimed as their own and which furthered their artistic ambitions.
The program is free. Accessible seats available. Advance registration is required at clarkart.edu/events or by calling 413 458 0524.
Generous support for A Room of Her Own is provided by Joanne Barker, Carol and Bob Braun, Richard and Carol Seltzer, Denise Littlefield Sobel, and the Tavolozza Foundation.
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