Who Cares!!! Let us be! -Jenn A

Way of Seeing - John Berger

1. "To be naked is to be oneself. To be nude is to be seen naked by others and yet not recognized in order to become a nude. Nakedness reveals itself. Nudity is placed on display."

2. "Their nakedness acts a confirmation and proves a very strong sense of relief. She is a woman like any other: or he is a man like no other: we are overwhelmed by the marvelous simplicity of the familiar sexual mechanism"

Understanding Patriarchy 

1. "Women are asking men to share the public reins and men can’t bear it. Ask antifeminists and you will get a diagnosis that is, in one respect, similar. Men are troubled, many conservative pundits say, because women have gone far beyond their demands for equal treatment and are now trying to take power and control away from men...The underlying message: men cannot be men, only eunuchs, if they are not in control. Both the feminist and antifeminist views are rooted in a peculiarly modern American perception that to be a man means to be at the controls and at all times to feel yourself in control."

2. "As their daughter I was taught that it was my role to serve, to be weak, to be free from the burden of thinking, to caretake and nurture others. My brother was taught that it was his role to be served; to provide; to be strong; to think, strategize, and plan; and to refuse to caretake or nurture others. I was taught that it was not proper for a female to be violent, that it was “unnatural.”

The Oppositional Gaze

1. “Identifying with neither the phallocentric gaze nor the construction of white-womanhood as lack, critical black female spectators construct a theory of looking relations where cinematic visual delight is the pleasure of interrogation” 

2. "Even when representations of black women were present in film, our bodies and being were there to serve”

Photographed Collaged and Painted Muse

"Muse is a show that lays bare the artist’s process in a refreshingly nonlinear way. The curation, which consists of four distinct parts in a kind of nesting doll arrangement, lets the viewer draw her own connections between Thomas’s work in various mediums and that of her influences."

"Wan, at the end of her life, she talks candidly about her struggles with addiction and marital troubles. It’s a moving piece, and its place at the center of the show casts Bush as the spiritual core of Thomas’s work, her mother as creator, the muse that all the others followed."

Overlooked No More: Ana Mendieta, A Cuban artist who pushed boundaries

"These questions would echo in her work, which explored themes that pushed ethnic, sexual, moral, religious and political boundaries. She urged viewers to disregard their gender, race or other defining societal factors and instead connect with the humanity they share with others."

"The making of my ‘Silueta’ in nature keeps the transition between my homeland and my new home,” she once said. “It is a way of reclaiming my roots and becoming one with nature. Although the culture in which I live is part of me, my roots and cultural identity are a result of my Cuban heritage."