Flamingo Clay Studio
Clay Glass Metal Stone Gallery
Presents
“Bread and Roses”
The Women of the Resistance
Opening Friday, August 31- 6-10 PM
Continuing thru September 11
15 South J Street in Downtown Lake Worth
Free Parking and lots of Wine and Cheese
Clay Glass Metal Stone Gallery presents its annual “Bread and Roses” exhibition, additionally titled, “Women of the Resistance.” The show, last year, became an interactive debate, with folks who found the art of peace signs, the environment, women’s rights, civil liberties and civil rights offensive. They brought a contingent of demonstrators to protest the gallery and the artists. Parking front of the gallery, shouting and waving flags, they called the art inside, “hate” art. The gallery artists met them with servings of cake and cookies. Over 350 visitors flocked to the gallery that first evening, to support the artists and to purchase their works.”
“Bread and Roses” celebrates Women’s Equality Day, and the Women of the Resistance. The title, “Bread and Roses,” comes from a 1912 strike when women workers, at the Lawrence Mill in Massachusetts, sought higher wages (to purchase bread for their families) while also asking for roses in their lives. Life is a toil, but pleasure is well deserved and earned in the process.
Artists have always risen to the challenge of the fight against oppression, and for peace and social justice. Best known may be Picasso’s Guernica, but, throughout all wars and strife, artists have fought back, bringing change through their posters, guerilla art, and fine-art statements. Today, artists like Maxine Schreiber and Alessandra Mondolfi take their art to the streets as well as to the internet and galleries.
This year, a life-long fighter for social justice lost her life to cancer. Clay Glass Metal Stone Gallery dedicates this show to, and celebrates the life of Connie Kurtz, who, along with her wife Ruthie Berman, won the fight for domestic partnership, in the New York School system. They spent their entire lives fighting for equality, peace and social justice.
Performing protest songs on opening night will be singers Mel and Vinnie, and the GinKats, Ginny Meredith and Kat Mahoney. They will be teaching “songs for the picket line.” Mel and Vinnie worked for many years on the Hudson River with Pete Seeger.
Men, too, who fight hand in hand with women, will be participating in this show.
Voter registration, and write-in ballots will be available in the gallery.
For additional information contact Joyce Brown, Joyce@Flamingoclaystudio.org.
Clay Glass Metal Stone Cooperative Gallery is sponsored by the Flamingo Clay Studio, a non-profit artist cooperative whose mission is to provide affordable studio and gallery space for three-dimensional artists. The gallery is located at 15 South J Street in downtown Lake Worth. Hours are Sunday thru Thursday, 10AM-6PM. Friday and Saturday, 10AM-10PM. Gallery openings are the first and third Friday of each month from 6-10 PM with many special events in-between. The Flamingo Clay Studio is located at 216 South F Street with open studio and workshop opportunities for those interested in the 3-D Arts of Clay, Fused Glass and Small Metals.