“She: Honoring Women in Art,” an exhibition exploring what it means to be a woman and an artist in today’s world, will open at the Oliver Art Center on Feb. 21.
The exhibit focuses on aspects of female positivity, strength, resiliency and creativity and highlights women artists’ ingenuity and ability to build community, generate support, creatively problem solve and create and sustain life and beauty.
There will be an opening reception from 5-7 p.m. on Feb. 21. The exhibit continues through March 28. Both the reception and exhibition are free and open to the public. An artist talk will take place from 2-4 p.m. on March 28.
“We are thrilled to be highlighting exceptional women artists in this exhibit, but also that the focus of the work will be to celebrate and explore the diversity of women’s roles and their impact. In a time when being a woman can seem difficult, we want to show women of all ages that we recognize their strength, their creativity, and their relevance,” said executive director Tamara Hoffbauer.
The work of four Michigan artists will be featured.
Judy Jashinsky is an American contemporary artist, currently living in Arcadia, known for her paintings dealing with historical events, narratives and personalities. Her work is intertwined with personal details and experiences, depicted in historical and fantasy environments and across different eras and cultures.
Melissa Jones is a Detroit area art educator and multi-media artist. Her sculptures highlight the beauty and sensuality of the human form, often joined with objects that have highly textured, weathered and decaying surfaces, such as bones, rust, and other found items from the natural world. Her encaustic paintings layer rich colors embedded with objects and carved textures.
Rebecca Mott is a Ludington-area art educator and multi-media artist. Her ceramic sculpture, printmaking and drawing reimagine ancient art materials and themes, breathing new life into the colors, materials and subject matter found on cave walls or excavated pottery by merging them with new techniques, textures and arrangements of form.
Shelly Taylor is a graphic artist and painter whose work is inspired by the roles of women. Women in early photography, the Victorian era, suffragettes, flappers, silent films, early talkies, old Hollywood glam, ’60s mod women, ’70s liberated women, and more — leaders, workers, inventors, movers, shakers, fighters, lovers, mothers, grandmothers, sisters, aunts, neighbors and friends are featured in her work.
The Oliver Art Center is located at 132 Coast Guard Road in Frankfort. Admission is free.
For more information, visit oliverart.org or call 231-352-4151. The Oliver Art Center is open to the public from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Tuesday-Saturday and from noon to 4 p.m. Sunday.
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