Institute for Women & Art

This exhibition of work by Chilean-born artist Cecilia Vicuña is the first US anthological review of her works. The artist presents new works in many media, including a large site specific installation created for the Douglass Library galleries, videos, wall drawings and works created in Chile, London, Colombia and the United States. Renowned for her "precarious" installations in nature, which address ecological issues, Vicuña bridges the space between art and poetry, integrating multiple media into her work. Her visual language speaks to the past and the future by exploring parallels between the ancient indigenous worldview of the Americas and the worldview of particle physicists which includes concepts of entanglement and the multiverse.

Film Screening
September 30, 2009
5:30-7:30 pm
Scholarly Communications Center, Alexander Library, 4^th floor
Directions: http://www.libraries.rutgers.edu/rul/libs/alex_lib/alex_lib.shtml

Film debut "Kon Kon" (2009) with its writer and director, Cecilia Vicuña.
This documentary, set at Con Con on the Chilean coast and near the Aconcagua- the tallest mountain in the Western hemisphere, explores the connections between the artist's works and ancient traditions, while also providing evidence to the ecological and cultural destruction of the place. Vicuña is the 2009-10 Estelle Lebowitz Visiting Artist-in-Residence for the Dana Women Artists Series.

Public Lecture and Poetry Performance
October 21, 2009
Reception for the Artist: 6pm; Performance: 6:30pm - 7:30 pm
Mabel Smith Douglass Room, Douglass Library
Directions: http://www.libraries.rutgers.edu/rul/libs/douglass_lib/douglass_lib.shtml

"A Tongue Within Tongues"
In her poetry performances Cecilia Vicuña creates a space for silence and transformation. Words, sounds and the audience are woven into new sensory perceptions. Playing with many languages as she reads and chants she transforms her texts as she goes, incorporating the present moment.

The exhibition and events have been organized by the Mary H. Dana Women Artists Series, a program of the Institute for Women and Art (IWA) in partnership with the Rutgers University Libraries. The IWA operates as a center of the Office of the Associate Vice President for Academic & Public Partnerships in the Arts & Humanities. Series co-sponsors include: Associate Alumnae of Douglass College, Brodsky Center for Innovative Editions, Center for Latin American Studies, Global Initiatives (2009-10 theme "Ecologies in the Balance? Thinking Through the Crisis"), Institute for Research on Women, Office of the Dean of Douglass Residential College and Douglass Campus, The Feminist Art Project, Women and Gender Studies Department, and the Women Artists Archives National Directory. These events are made possible in part by funds from the National Endowment for the Arts and the New Jersey State Council on the Arts/Department of State, a Partner Agency of the National Endowment for the Arts.

For additional information about any of the above events please contact: Nicole Ianuzelli: nik12a@rci.rutgers.edu

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The vision of the Rutgers Institute for Women and Art is to transform values, policies, and institutions, and to insure that the intellectual and aesthetic contributions of diverse communities of women in the visual arts are included in the cultural mainstream and acknowledged in the historical record.

The mission of the Rutgers Institute for Women and Art is to invent, implement, and conduct live and virtual education, research, documentation, public programs, and exhibitions focused on women artists and feminist art. The IWA strives to establish equality and visibility for all women artists, who are underrepresented and unrecognized in art history, the art market, and the contemporary art world, and to address their professional development needs. The IWA endeavors to serve all women in the visual arts and diverse global, national, regional, state, and university audiences.

Ferris Olin, Ph.D., Co-curator of the Mary H. Dana Women Artists Series, Founder and Co-director of The Feminist Art Project, and Project Co-director for WAAND: Women Artists Archives National Directory.
Judith K. Brodsky, Professor Emerita, Founding Director of the Brodsky Center for Innovative Editions, Mason Gross School of the Arts

Betsy Barbanell, Art Advisor, New York, NY
Joan Bartl, President, Payment Management, Princeton, NJ
Anonda Bell, Acting Director, Paul Robeson Galleries, Rutgers Newark
Elizabeth Cohen, Vice-President, American Express (retired), New York, NY
Marianne I. Gaunt, Vice President for Information Services and University Librarian
Dr. Mary S. Hartman, Director, Institute for Women's Leadership
Dr. Mary Hawkesworth, Chair, Women's & Gender Studies Dept., Editor of SIGNS journal
Lisa Hetfield, Director of Development, Institute for Women's Leadership
Dr. Dorothy Hodgson, Director, Institute for Research on Women
Dr. Beth Hutchison, Associate Director, Institute for Research on Women
Marjorie Martay, Arts Consultant, New York, NY
Dr. Joan M. Marter, Professor, Art History Department & Editor of Woman's Art Journal
Dr. Leslie Mitchner, Editor-in-Chief & Associate Director, Rutgers University Press
Dr. Muriel Moss, Art Collector, Princeton, NJ
Isabel Nazario, Associate Vice President for Academic & Public Partnerships in Arts & Humanities
Dr. Nell Painter, History Department, Princeton University (retired), Newark, NJ
Dr. Joanna Regulska, Dean, International Programs, SAS
Dr. Martin Rosenberg, Professor, Department of Fine Arts, Camden Campus
Ernestine Ruben, Artist, Princeton, NJ
Virginia O. Steel, Director, Rutgers Camden Center for the Arts
Anne Swartz, Professor, Art History, Savannah College of Art and Design, GA
Courtney Taylor, Art Collector, New York, NY
Dr. Jorge Daniel Veneciano, Director, Sheldon Museum of Art, Lincoln, NE
Dr. Cheryl A. Wall, Professor, Department of English

The Institute for Women & Art (IWA) is a unit of Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, and a center of the Office of the Associate Vice President for Academic & Public Partnerships in the Arts & Humanities. In addition, the IWA is a consortial member of the Institute for Women's Leadership. The IWA gratefully acknowledges the financial support of the Rutgers Academic Excellence Fund, the Maria and Henry Leon Memorial Fund, Judith K. Brodsky and Ferris Olin. IWA programs are also made possible in part by funds from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts/Department of State, a Partner Agency of the National Endowment for the Arts, and by the National Endowment for the Arts.

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