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WOMEN & CREATIVITY is an annual series that celebrates women’s creativity across the disciplines, now in its 12th year.

march 2017

Our featured events, detailed in the following pages, are curated collaborations that integrate myriad creative fields and take place throughout Women’s History Month.

For more information and our full community calendar, please visit:

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play along. . .TêTE-à-TêTE ARTIsT TRADING CARDs

Beautify the 10 trading cards we provide and receive 10 back, beautified by our other participants – from across the country and the world! Sign up by March 12 at womenandcreativity.org

Ooooo! We’re hosting Trading Card Pop-Up Exhibitions at Harwood’s Encompass event on March 4! Sign-up and submit early to participate!

WOMEN & CREATIVITY COMMuNITY CElEbRATION

Harwood’s annual Encompass: A Multigenerational Art Event features luminary artists of all ages, four exhibition openings, site-specific installations, collaborative art making projects, open studios with 45+ resident artists, live musical performances, food trucks and more. Jodie Herrera, Women & Creativity 2017 Featured Artist (see cover), will lead one of the projects!

Saturday, March 4, 5 – 8p // Harwood Art Center

featured events . . .1. CREATIVE NETWORKING sAlONs

A moderated panel discussion with creative women who are supporting themselves by selling what they create, followed by peer and expert advice in “roundtable raps” with WESST consultants about business, marketing, financial management, and work/life balance:

Thursday, March 9, 5:30 – 8p // WESST

A salon for designers and artists of all kinds to celebrate their differences and similarities. The night promises to be engaging, stimulating, and memorable:

Wednesday, March 15, 5:30 – 7p // Keshet Center for the Arts with WiD:NM, Keshet Dance Company, and Pyragraph

A salon-style, casual gathering for women from all fields to build community and find points of intersection for their creativity, work, and projects:

Wednesday, March 29, 5:30 – 7p // Harwood Art Center with Shastyn Photography & Design and Tractor Brewing

2. EKCO: WOMEN ON WAR ($ / RSVP)

What do women vets have to say about war and service? Join us for a spoken word / poetry performance based on interviews with military women who served in Iraq and Afghanistan. This year, the EKCO Poets (creating collaborative poetry since 2009) take words and stories of women vets and weave them into an unusual work of art that is part reading, part movement, part spoken word performance. Presented by Artful Life.

Friday, March 3, 7p // Tricklock Performance Laboratory

Sunday, March 5, 2p // Tricklock Performance Laboratory

3. FEAsT FOR THE sENsEs: POP-uP DINNERs ($ / RSVP)

Join us at the table for an exploration of creativity as culinary arts, creativity and agriculture are integrated to push the limits of the sensory experience. Presented by edible Santa Fe magazine in Albuquerque and Santa Fe with Farm & Table, Sol Harvest Farms, The Liquid Muse, Maple Street Dance Company, Heidi’s Raspberry Farms, Savory Spice Shop, and Food + Drink.

Tuesday, March 7, 6:30 – 9:30p // Albuquerque

Sunday, March 19, 6:30 – 9:30p // Santa Fe

4. All ACCEss REPRODuCTIVE RIGHTs: POETRY ANTHOlOGY lAuNCH

On International Women’s Day, join poets, advocates, health care providers to celebrate a new poetry anthology created by Planned Parenthood and partners to advocate and promote women’s reproductive rights. Presented by Planned Parenthood, Swimming Elephant Publications, Chrysalis Transgender Resource Center, and Bruja Rising Health and Body Work.

Wednesday, March 8, 7 – 9p // Duel Brewery & Restaurant

5. ART + FEMINIsM WIKIPEDIA EDIT-A-THON

The Art+Feminism Wikipedia Edit-a-thon is an international, annual, all-day, community-organized event that teaches how to edit, update, and add articles. Designed to generate coverage of women and the arts and encourage female editorship, the event works to contribute and amend meaningful content to Wikipedia. People of all gender identities are invited. Presented by Central Features, Richard Levy Gallery, Gibbous, artAttendant, NM Museum of Art, and The Necessarian.

Saturday, March 11, 11a – 4p // Central Features Gallery and Richard Levy Gallery

Stephanie Cameron, Edible Santa Fe, Pop-Up Dinner 2016, Pottery by Jennifer DePaolo, HP Bloomer and Teresa Larrabee

6. WOMEN ARTIsTs sPEAK OuT: FEMINIsM & CREATIVE EXPREssION (RSVP)

An intergenerational, international and interdisciplinary public forum of women moderated by Megan Kamerick contemplates the past, present, and future of art and feminism. Participants include: Erin Galvez, visual artist; Dagmara Zabska, theatre artist from Poland; Kelsey Paschich, dancer and choreographer; Doris Difarnecio, performance artist, activist, and scholar from Colombia; and Margaret Randall, a literary artist and activist.

Saturday, March 11, 4 – 6p // 516 ARTS

7. DAKHAbRAKHA ($)

Presented by AMP Concerts, DakhaBrakha does far more than introduce Ukranian music or prove it is alive and well. They craft stunning new sonic worlds for traditional songs, reinventing their heritage with a keen ear for contemporary resonances.

Sunday, March 12, 7p // KiMo Theatre

8. HOW TO sTART A PussY RIOT ($ / RSVP)

516 ARTS, AMP Concerts and Tricklock Company present a night of art, performance, and activism, including a reception featuring Nemcatacoa Theater and an after-party. At the center is a performance piece and conversation by Pussy Riot, a Russian feminist punk rock protest group based in Moscow who stage unauthorized provocative guerrilla performances that are edited into music videos and posted on the Internet.

Reception, Tuesday, March 14, 5:30 - 7:30p // 516 ARTS

Pussy Riot, Tuesday, March 14, 8p // KiMo Theatre

After-party: Tuesday, March 14, 10p // Tricklock Performance Laboratory

9. A MAP OF MY OWN

Bernalillo County Public Art presents an interactive exhibit featuring collaborative artwork by young women in the juvenile detention center and professional women artists mapping places and emotional states.

Friday, March 17, 5:30 – 7p // African American Performing Arts Center

10. EXPECT WONDERs: MOsAIC MANDAlA WORKsHOP & GERMINATION EXHIbIT OPENING RECEPTION (RSVP)

Expect wonders as you create a mosaic art piece with Cirrelda Snider-Bryan and Patricia Halloran of the Mosaic Artists of New Mexico. Give new life to discarded glass to create a segment of the mandala that will welcome visitors to the Open Space Visitor Center for years to come. Registration required, space limited.

Saturday, March 18, 10a – 2p // Open Space Visitors Center

Reception for the Germination Exhibit with free-standing and wall-hung pieces of fresh, figurative and abstract interpretations of this amazing natural process.

Saturday, March 25, 2 – 4p // Open Space Visitors Center

11. IN THE CIRClE OF WOMEN

Artful Life, with Valerie Martínez and Elsa Menendez, invites New Mexico women to participate in pop-up action/ performance, “in the circle of women,” to take place in Albuquerque. A Facebook-organized event, details and instructions will appear in the weeks before March 25.

Saturday, March 25, 1p // Pop-Up Locations in Albuquerque

12. FIElD DREssING / REVOluTIONs THEATRE FEsTIVAl ($)

On September 13th, 1995, at 2:34pm, on the corner of Centennial and Cartwright, while a man in a stupid green sedan blew kisses at her and the hole under the Algebra I book in her backpack stretched unnoticeably wider, 14-year-old Violet Francis started growing antlers out of her head. Written and performed by Hannah Kauffmann, and directed by Juli Hendren.

Tuesday, March 28, 8p // Tricklock Performance Laboratory

13. lIVING ARTIFACT EXHIbITION & WORKsHOP ($ / RSVP)

Tortuga Gallery leads women artists and community members to create and share “Living Artifacts” in response to women’s role in society. Workshop space is limited, registration required. Artist reception is free and open to the public.

Community Workshop, Saturday, March 4, 10a – 1p // Tortuga Gallery

Artist Reception & Exhibit, Wednesday, March 29, 6 – 8p // Tortuga Gallery

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Nina Freer, Artful Life, ECKO 2016

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WOMEN & CREATIVITY’s featured events initiative celebrates the innovation and leadership of our community’s most visionary women, presenting curated collaborations that integrate myriad creative fields. Here’s to all of our exceptional featured event organizers:

FEATuRED EVENT COllAbORATORs Ebony Booth, Teresa Buscemi, Stephanie Cameron, Noel Chilton, Neal Copperman, Jennifer DePaolo, Staci Drangmeister, Emily Dunkin, Shastyn Friedman, Shira Greenberg, Katrina Guarascio. Tanesia Hale-Jones, Patricia Halloran, Juli Hendren, Viviette Hunt, Megan Hutchcraft, Hannah Kaufmann, Romy Keegan, GuruAmrit Khalsa, Caroline LeBlanc, Jill Logan, Jessica Helen Lopez, Nan Masland, Elsa Menendez, Cherie Montoya, Skye Morris-Devore, Peri Pakroo, Shay Rogers, Monica Salazar, Suzanne Sbarge, Julianna Silva, Cirrelda Snider-Bryan, Sarah Wentzel-Fisher, Nancy Zastudil

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Cover Image: Jodie Herrera, Women & Creativity 2017 Featured Artist, “Saskia,” Oil on Wood (cover) // Calendar Design: Julia Mandeville, Harwood Art Center

FEATuRED EVENT PARTNERs 516 ARTS, AMP Concerts, African American Performing Arts Center, Art+Feminism Wikipedia Edit-a-thon. artAttendant, Artful Life, Bernalillo County Cultural Services, Bernalillo County Youth Services, Bruja Rising Health and Body Work, Central Features Contemporary Art, Chrysalis Transgender Resource Center, edible Santa Fe, EKCO Poets, Farm & Table, Food + Drink, Gibbous, Harwood Art Center, Heidi’s Raspberry Farms, Keshet Dance Company, Keshet Ideas & Innovation Center, Maple Street Dance Space, National Initiative for Arts and Health in the Military, New Mexico Museum of Art, NMTC Women in Technology, Open Space Visitors Center, Planned Parenthood, Richard Levy Gallery, Pyragraph, Savory Spice Shop, Sol Harvest Farms, Shastyn Photography & Design Studio, Swimming Elephant Publications, The Liquid Muse, The Necessarian, Tiaso Artist Cooperative, Tortuga Gallery, Tractor Brewing, Tricklock Theater Company, WESST, Women in Design: NM

WOMEN & CREATIVITY CO-COORDINATORs Julia Mandeville, Valerie Martinez & Dr. Shelle Sanchez (founder)

WOMEN & CREATIVITY is proudly presented by: