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Saturday

Crone Celebration

Posted originally on March 21, 2007
March is Women's Month. It probably is going unnoticed by most individuals, but not to a group of women participating in the Scarab Club's "Crone Celebration" scheduled for March 23, Friday, 6-9 pm. The celebration is "intended to have a festivities of humor, music, poetry, performance structured to be all inclusive so that everyone may participate and celebrate their inherent wisdom hardwon by experience and years." "This exhibit offers a range of media and voices representing how women negotiate cultural spaces differently and how they concretize their experience----with courage and compassion, wit and humor." The themes in this show address the various issues which I'm exploring in my documentary on Women, Media and Body Image so indie producer, Kate Trainer, and I (Rebecca Glotfelty) are driving to Detroit (4 1/2 hour drive) to videotape the celebration/show. I'm especially anxious to view works by friend, Shaqe Kalaj. Shaqe was the former resident artist at my gallery, The Cycling Salamander. "Shaqe Kalaj's graphically strong woodcut prints are represented in two works and the third is a new mixed media piece titled "CRONE AWAKENING." Exploring the idea of what it means to be a crone symbolically representing Kali energy of death and transformation, she shares that in the process of creating this work she went through transformative process of death and rebirth herself." Also featured in the show will be Sue Carman-Vian wearing her sculptural dress made of mirrors. Its basic shape is eloquent in its modernist simplicity. Its surface reflects all who pass or choose to gaze into it, seeing a distorted image of themselves. It speaks metaphorically of how we project onto one another, especially in romantic love, and how those projections blind us as we see through our own desires, fear and stories as we gaze upon our beloved "other." It has been used in one of her prior performances "Heaven." The show includes other visual artists, poets and performing artists. I hope you can come check it out in person but if you're unable- check back with RPM as we plan to capture all the highlights.
Posted by Rebecca at 5:39 PM