Jacquelyn Gleisner, The Chart’s 2019 Critic in Residence, considers a history of performance art and its request for “noble attention” throughout her pregnancy.
feminism
Bianca Beck and Sascha Braunig’s two-person show at SPACE explores the political and feminist power of difference.
Ann Hirsch will probably defy most expectations of a feminist artist thinking about gender, social media, and the implications of shame and display.
Jacob Fall and Virginia Rose investigate revelations in Elise Ansel’s Distant Mirrors at Bowdoin College Museum of Art.
Emily Jane Young discusses discomfort, feminism, and masculinity at Douglas W. Milliken’s multi-disciplinary launch event of Cream River, a book of short stories, and its musical twin, the record Whiskey Dick, by Blind Pelican.
Kathy Weinberg navigates Veronica Cross’ exploration of the female figure in the complex contexts of punk aesthetics, pop culture, and the baggage of hijacking the vintage.
As the subject of children and parenting becomes more prevalent in global contemporary discourse and in academia, is Maine’s creative economy prepared to encourage and support women artists with families? by Alana Dao