Vision: An Artist's Perspective by Gutfreund Cornett Art and UniteWomen.org

Anitra Frazier Dolton, Illinois www.anitrafrazierart.com

Keeping My Head Above Water, Oil on canvas, 18 x 24 inches, 2015 My artwork takes a critical view of psychological and cultural issues. In this self portrait, I emphasize the complex emotions and struggles of everyday life. I took a realistic approach to this image, rendering splashing water and my facial features, to drive home the message. The dichotomous aspect of this image, both cautionary and hopeful, is that I am still in the fight to â&#x20AC;&#x153;keep my head above waterâ&#x20AC;?. 103

Vision: An Artist's Perspective by Gutfreund Cornett Art and UniteWomen.org

Published on Jun 6, 2016

Gutfreund Cornett Art

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Exhibition Catalog for "VISION". Envision, conceive of, imagine . . . In this turbulent time of political changes, women's rights, social, racial, gender and economic inequality, global conflicts, cultural instability, reproductive choice/health care issues, and environmental challenges of overconsumption and resource scarcity - how do we effect positive change through art? How do we listen, speak our minds, include, and act in collaboration or alone across generational differences, races, identities and cultures, to build our future, locally and globally? VISION seeks to bring self-identified women artists into dialogue, retracing an account of the past manifesting in the present, to address major social themes, to define and bring forth what is important to themselves, their families, their communities, our nation and the world at large with art that either reflects on past injustices or focuses on a vision for a more positive, empowering future.

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