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Currently on display at the Brockway Center for Arts and Technology is the exhibition Material Girls, showcasing 15 women artists with unique approaches to materials. Full disclosure: This is a show I curated, and I couldn't be more pleased with how it came together.
I currently work at the Brockway Center for Arts and Technology, a non-profit organization that focuses on getting youth involved in the arts. We have an amazing clay facility and a pretty kick butt metal arts studio, designed by yours truly. We run an after school program for teens in grades 9-12, but right now we're gearing up for our 5 week summer arts intensive. We'll have our students everyday, M-F from 10am-3pm. So we're not joking around when we call it our Summer Intensive!
In the Metal Arts studio, we're going to be spending five whole weeks exploring found objects and non-traditional materials, in addition to learning all the basic metals techniques. A large part of my motivation for this exhibition was to show my students the variety of approaches to materials within our field. Brockway is a small, very rural community in western Pennsylvania, and a big part of my job for the past year has been educating people on what "Metal Arts" is and can be. One of the things I find most exciting about the field of metals and jewelry is that anything goes in terms of materials and I want to share that with my students, and hopefully inspire them to explore what they find to be interesting.
Alison Pack, Whoops, I Did it Again
One of my other favorite things about this field are all the amazing and talented people that make it up. As my residents and I were brainstorming the list of participants, I noticed that I know a lot of super awesome ladies who make super awesome work. I wanted to acknowledge and celebrate the role of women in our field and the arts in general. In fact, after I had sent out the invitation to participate, I kept thinking of more super awesome ladies I would love to have in this show. (No worries if you didn't get an invite, I'm totally planning on a Material Girls II someday!) A catchy title, and we were ready to roll.
We're having a closing reception this Friday, June 24, from 6-8pm. The gallery is open 9am-5pm the rest of the week, M-F. If you're in the rural western PA area, we'd love to have to stop by! Seriously, these women are amazing, and I'm so honored I get to display their work.
Participating Artists:
Alison Bailey
Sarah Brown
Liz Clark
Danielle James
Satomi Kawai
Galatea Kontos
Jillian Moore
Kathryn Osgood
Alison Pack
Audrey Peck
Marissa Saneholtz
Casey Sheppard
Kayla Stagvil
Jessica Todd
Sarah West
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