UniteWomen.org and Vision: An Artist’s Perspective
In September of 2012, I was asked to speak at the Honoring Women’s Rights Conference in Salinas on the Activism panel and as the closing speaker. The conference was an interesting mix of activists, artists and educators. I had the privilege of meeting so many amazing women, including Karen Gutfreund, and walked away from that conference with a strong feeling that artists’ voices need to be heard, and a strong desire to want to promote and feature artists speaking out for women’s rights through their work. Karen and I were able to blend her curatorial strengths and the social media strengths from UniteWomen.org to give artists another platform to display and sell their art. Our first collaborative exhibition was Women’s Rights: An Artist’s Perspective, which was shown at Pam Foss Fine Art Gallery in Maryland in 2013. This was followed by Voices: An Artist’s Perspective at the N.A.W.A. Gallery in New York City last year. I am so honored to work with Karen Gutfreund and now Sherri Cornett, through their curatorial partnership, Gutfreund Cornett Art, to create Vision: An Artist’s Perspective. With this project, we are able to profile the many incredible artists in this catalog and how they look at the lives of women, envision the future for themselves and other generations, create dialogue and build community. At UniteWomen.org, we want to speak loudly – we want ALL women (and men who support women) to speak loudly. We want our voices to resonate and be heard as we teach, contemplate, engage, volunteer, unite, sponsor events, protest, meet with legislators and members of our communities and arm ourselves with the tools we need to fully participate in the political process for women’s rights and human rights. Thank you to all of the artists for adding their vision, and voices, to this continuing struggle for equality.
Karen Teegarden President and CEO UniteWomen.org/UniteWomen.org Action SOCIAL MEDIA facebook.com/unitewomen | twitter.com/unitewomenorg | youtube.com/unitewomen | pinterest.com/unitewomen
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