My wonderful friend Opal has started writing a column about women in Birmingham, Alabama.
Women in the Magic City, Volume 1 | pavomag.com
One of my favorite lines: “And I can say now, after spending time transcribing the interviews and doing my own soul searching, that I learned a lesson much more beneficial than some hot-air intellectual stroking of feminist egos. What I learned was this: calling yourself a feminist means nothing to the world, and even less to Birmingham. Acting like a feminist – responding to a call for change by BEING the change – is the only measurable standard that matters.”
It is hard to believe that it has been a YEAR since we had a rowdy 6+ webcam! Its not that we haven’t been working, (the Biennale in South Korea, preparing for the next project in the Dheisheh Refugee Camp), we just simply never got around to scheduling one.
For the entire month of August, Incheon is the site for a unique contemporary art biennale that shines the spotlight on women artists. Nearly 300 artists from 40 countries are participating in the second Incheon Women Artists’ Biennale (IWAB), which opens Saturday.
