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UPCOMING EXHIBITIONS, WORKSHOPS, PANELS & DIALOGUES

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  • Brooklyn Museum
    Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art: Feminist Art Base
    Nancy Azara

  • Visit the New York Feminist Art Institute online at nyfai.org

    "Our Journey to The New York Feminist Art Institute", by Nancy Azara and Darla Bjork, Entering the Picture: Judy Chicago, The Fresno Feminist Art Program and the Collective Visions of Women Artists , edited by Jill Fields, Ph.D., For a link to this recent publication, click here: http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415887694/

  • Featured Artist, March 2012, Veteran Feminists of America (VFA) Online Newsletter
    "The Flowering of the Fig Tree"
    When I was born in 1939 in St. Bernadette's Parish in Brooklyn, I was supposed to be a boy and my name was to be Nicholas . . . click here for more.

  • Nancy Azara's Wikipedia Page

REPRESENT: Feminism(s) + Art
Friday, June 8th, 6-8pm (MORE INFORMATION BELOW)

College Art Association (CAA) February 22-25, 2012 in Los Angeles
Nancy Azara and Katie Cercone will be speaking about (RE)PRESENT: An Ongoing Intergenerational Collaboration as part of the panel Necessary Positions: Intergenerational collaboration in feminist art and activism moderated by Maria Elena Buszeck.
Wednesday, February 22nd, 2:30-5pm

http://conference.collegeart.org/2012/sessions/



Pictured and panelists: Necessary Positions: Intergenerational collaboration in feminist art and activism: Maria Elena Buszeck (moderator), Nancy Azara and Katie Cercone, Margaret Cuonzo and Liz Rudey, Joanne Heath, Xenobia Bailey, Suzanne Lacy and Andrea Bowers.

Exhibitions

Natural Linking, 3 Person Show
The Traffic Zone Gallery
Minneapolis, MN
August 23 - September 28, 2012
Opening Reception: Thursday, Sept. 6th

Group Show with Lo Studio Dei Nipoti
Washington DC
September 7-28, 2012
Opening Reception: Friday, Sept. 7th

Workshops

UPCOMING 2012

Visual Diaries Workshop at Nancy's Woodstock Studio
Saturday, July 14th, 10-4pm
Based on Nancy's development of the the "Visual Diaries, Consciousness-Raising, Art-Making Workshop" at NYFAI, The New York Feminist Art Institute. http://www.nyfai.org
Woodstock, NY, For more information, nancy@nancyazara.com or 212-925-5777
$80 each or $145 for both workshops (Jul 14th & Aug 11th)

Visual Diaries Workshop at Nancy's Woodstock Studio
Saturday, August 11th, 10-4pm
Based on Nancy's development of the the "Visual Diaries, Consciousness-Raising, Art-Making Workshop" at NYFAI, The New York Feminist Art Institute. http://www.nyfai.org
Woodstock, NY, For more information, nancy@nancyazara.com or 212-925-5777
$80 each or $145 for both workshops (Jul 14th & Aug 11th)

Spirit Circle
Friday, September 7th, 6-8pm
A circle which will use meditation and discussion.
Duluth Art Institute-Lincoln Center, 2229 West 2nd Street, Duluth, MN
To register contact: SCousino@duluthartinstitute.org, 218-723-1310

Mediations on Changes and Transitions
Saturday, September 8th, 9am-4pm
Using artmaking and meditation, this workshop is inspired by the experience of the harvest and the upcoming seasonal variations of autumn.
Duluth Art Institute-Lincoln Center, 2229 West 2nd Street, Duluth, MN
To register contact: SCousino@duluthartinstitute.org, 218-723-1310

Spirit Taking Form Workshop at Nancy's Tribeca Studio
Thursday, October 11th, 6-9pm
This workshop will combine artmaking with meditation and discussion.
NYC, NY, $30 each

For more information contact Nancy Azara at nancy@nancyazara.com
Limited space available

Recent Workshops Include:

Chakra Workshop
Saturday, March 10th, 3-5:30pm
Euphoria Yoga, 99 Tinker Street, Woodstock, NY
http://www.euphoriayoga.org, 845-679-6766
$25 Advance, $30 Day of

Spirit Workshop: An Ongoing Series
(Nancy’s NYC Studio) Franklin St, Tribeca

Mapping the Body, Reading Body Images
Using our intuition to translate the spiritual and psychic side of our bodies into understanding how it manifests into our physical being.

Visual Journaling Workshop
This workshop focuses on visual expression instead of a written language diary.
Using pigment sticks as the medium (with other materials of your choice) and examining our day to day experience, you discuss and record a specific time in your lives, choosing an important moment as a metaphor for your life in general. This is an opportunity to work with a founder of the legendary Feminist Art Institute in New York City, who is a celebrated sculptor and author of Artmaking as a Spiritual Practice.

Nancy Azara is a sculptor whose work has been reviewed in the New York Times, Art In America, Art Forum, and Sculpture Magazine, and has exhibited in the U.S. and internationally. She is a recipient of the Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Foundation Grant, the Susan B. Anthony Award, a Bogliasco Foundation Fellowship and most recently, a Civitella Ranieri Fellowship in Umbria, Italy. She is the author of Spirit Taking Form: Making a Spiritual Practice of Making Art, (Red Wheel Weiser).

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Nancy Azara is available for workshops and classes. She specializes in using guided meditations with art making and has taught at institutions such as the Open Center, the Esalen Institute and various universities such as the Split Rock Arts Program at the University of Minnesota. She also does private sessions on art and creativity.

For more information, call Nancy at 212-925-5777.

"REPRESENT: Feminism(s) and Art"
Intergenerational Roundtable


Kate Gilmore, My Love is An Anchor, 2004, video still

REPRESENT:
A Feminist Dialogue Across Generations

SOHO20 Gallery
547 West 27th Street, Suite 301
New York, NY 10001

Friday, June 8th 2012 from 6 - 8pm

'What nourishes creative flow and what kills it?'

What nourishes creative flow and what kills it? What sustains us amidst the perils and excitement of our inevitable successes and failures as artists? How do we persevere at a steady pace under all of life's preassures and demands of our time?

REPRESENT 2012: What do we want from Feminism and how can we achieve it? Continuing in the tradition of the New York Feminist Art Institute, NYFAI (1979-1990) www.nyfai.org. An event of The Feminist Art Project. Everyone is welcome.

For more information and upcoming events visit
http://www.nyfai.org/currentactivities.html

Past REPRESENT Topics:

REPRESENT: ‘Collaboration’ is a part of the history of women’s art (quilting etc.) as well as the women’s art movement from the 1970’s. However many artists cherish the experience of isolation in their process. How relevant is collaboration/isolation to your artmaking process and how does this influence your work? Friday May 20, 2011 6-8pm

REPRESENT: In ‘The Age of Plurality in Art’ what styles of work as well as what ways of approaching exhibition space and the role of the artmaker stand out as most meaningful? How do these observations relate to or problematize your own work? Friday March 25, 2011 6-8pm

REPRESENT: ‘Spiritual’ Artists such as Richard Tuttle, Ann Hamilton and others are speaking about the influence of the spiritual in their work (Columbia University, Reconfiguring the Spiritual, 2010, 2011). This subject has been both an ancient and contemporary one from such diverse artists as the Egyptians to the Renaissance to the Abstract Expressionists such as Adolph Gottlieb, Jackson Pollock and Mark Rothko, Joseph Beuys, Agnes Martin, Lenore Tawney and many others. Friday January 21, 2011 6-8pm

REPRESENT: ‘Slide Show’ Artists will present 2 images of their work. After, we will discuss reoccurring themes and interests that we see. Friday November 19, 2010 6-8pm

REPRESENT: MENTOR /'men, tôr, -ter/ an experienced and trusted adviser. (OED)Who have the mentors been - past and present - in your life and how have they helped or advised you in your work? Please come with a story to share. How did you find this person(s) and how did your relationship develop? Friday, Sept 24th, 2010 from 6 – 8 pm

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