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Body // Power – A Virtual Art Show curated by Athena Project
Body // Power – A Virtual Art Show curated by Athena Project
The first-ever Athena Project Virtual Art Show Exhibit will open NOVEMBER 13th at 5:00 pm!
Body // Power is a multidisciplinary exhibition featuring work by women and nonbinary artists who are fighters and survivors. All of the work explores themes inherent in reproductive justice, consent, gender-based violence, and the reclaiming of bodily narratives. Artwork has been gathered throughout the year from our ongoing social media campaigns, #ReproductiveJustice and #ArtHeals, and is now showcased for the first time in an immersive gallery experience.
The virtual setting offers greater opportunities to explore this work in more personal ways –
with mindfulness and intentionality. Here, the viewer will find visual art, music, and poetry created by women and nonbinary artists which converges at the intersection of personal trauma and political urgency. As you “walk” through our virtual gallery spaces, you’re invited to explore the intersection of these two themes – Body and Power – how they converge, diverge, and ultimately inspire healing through creative expression. By embracing a virtual format, the exhibition also seeks to provide accessibility and invite broader participation and deeper reflection, even across geographies.
You will witness these artists assert their agency, demonstrating that art acts as both refuge and resistance, as protest and shelter, as rebellion and comfort. Healing, in this context, is not soft or or passive; it is both fierce and furious. You may find the messages in some of these pieces painful; some images may make you want to look away. Because of this, these voices of rebellion and protest are too often silenced; their art too frequently erased. We at Athena Project believe in the crucial importance of amplifying and illuminating these messages. In doing so, it is our mission to lend our light to the healing power of these works.
We invite you to lean in and experience this art, taking your time with the pieces that move you – perhaps gaining new knowledge that you are not alone in this complicated world; that others know the conflicts you yourself have experienced or that you experience right now. We hope that you will share our conviction that art can and will heal our fury; and that this exhibit helps you move forward along that path. ~ Athena Project
Additional Events Schedule
November 13th @ 5:00pm - Opening Reception Event
Join us for a VIRTUAL opening artist reception. Pop in on our Zoom room to connect with other artists in the show and team members from Athena Project. Taking place Opening Night, Thursday, November 13 starting at 5pm MST and Zoom doors open until 7pm! Free, suggested donations welcome!
November 21 @ 11:30am - “Art Bites, Art Heals” Panel Discussion
A discussion panel featuring some of the artists and community organizations who use art for activism and to amplify their messages. Taking place via Zoom as part of a national protest called Fall of Freedom focused on artists, this conversation is centered around the themes and stories emerging from work in the show. We ask: can you heal with fury?
December 6 @ 10:30am - Artful Reflections Event
This FREE event, open to artists and nonartists, that invites reflection about the art work itself. Through the participants’ experience of the art, and the moderated conversations that follow, connection and community is strengthened. Featured artists are invited to listen in while others discuss the impact of their art.
Taking place virtually via Zoom, participants have the space to pause and an opportunity to “let the art in” as a way to increase understanding of themselves and others.
*Note this is not a drop-in discussion. Please be prompt.
How to join our immersive gallery?
- Click on the link above to access the gallery.
- Use your keyboard arrows or mouse to navigate through the gallery exhibition rooms.
- Click on an artwork to see it isolated or up close.
- To see the name of the artist, please simply hover over the image. To see any details about the work or the artist, please click on the square “i” in the upper right corner.
- Be sure and turn around in the gallery, so you don’t miss anything!
- To see the artwork in a “self-guided” tour (without you navigating through the gallery), please click on that button from the entry pop up box; however, beware that once the tour starts, you won’t be able to stop and look at an image. It’s best to get through the entire tour and then you can wander through the gallery a second time in order to find an image you might have wanted to circle back to.
How to leave comments on the virtual art show
Athena Project is using MURAL.co to allow you to leave comments and reflections on your experience viewing BODY // POWER. To do so, please follow these steps:
1. Take a few minutes to walk through the virtual exhibition space — feel, think, reflect.
2. Locate the Mural wall about halfway through the gallery, across from Jenny Footle’s poem, “Mornings for Me”. Click on the mural’s description and follow the link to Mural.co, the website where it’s hosted.
3. Find the left-hand sidebar and use either of the following to write a brief note!
a. The second icon grabs a sticky note, or
b. The third icon inserts text directly onto the mural.
4. Customize your note — choose any color, font, shape, or size you like using the hovering toolbar. Also, feel free to drag the corners to make the note bigger or smaller!
5. Finally, marvel at the beauty of this collective form of celebration.