A group exhibition by the FeministFuturist Collective
March 15 – May 14, 2022
Hess Gallery, Pine Manor College
400 Heath Street, Chestnut Hill, MA 02467
Check viewing hours on Hess Gallery’s web page
Artist Reception: Saturday, April 2nd 2-5pm
Christina Balch Artist Talk on Instagram Live: Thursday, April 7th 12-1pm
Quilting Circle: Thursdays in March & April, 5:30-8pm with Freedom Baird
Closing Reception: Saturday, May 14th 1-3pm
For more events, check back here at feministfuturist.com
For information, email gallery director: cwirth@pmc.edu
The Hess Gallery is pleased to present FeministFuturist: Liminal Lab.
In its newest iteration, the collective FeministFuturist–with special guests- provides participatory installations, sculpture, painting, and digital experiences. Participating artists and guest artists include: Christina Balch, Freedom Baird, Karen Meninno, Marjorie Kaye, Linda Price-Sneddon, Liz Helfer, Nancy Hayes, AK Liesenfeld and Carolyn Wirth.
We’re thrilled to announce that FeministFuturist has won a Collective Futures Fund grant! FeministFuturist: Liminal Lab is funded in part by this grant. The Collective Futures Fund is administered by the Tufts University Art Galleries and is a part of the Regional Regranting Program of the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts.
New Merch News!
Just in time for all kinds of holidays, we present the FeministFuturist webshop! Host your own Semiotics of the Kitchen dinner party with this awesome apron. Peruse clothes, journals, water bottles, stickers, and more, all featuring artwork by FeministFuturist artists.
Still More News
Christina Balch in “On Being Seen” at the Installation Space, North Adams MA through Aug. 22, 2021
Mac Pierce and Christina Balch explore surveillance, data privacy, and the ambiguity of technology-based laws and rights.
We Are Here
13 video artists, fashion designers, sculptors, printmakers, and installation artists were in FeministFuturist: The Show. A big thank you to our fabulous photographer Melissa Blackall
See our archived show from the Mills Gallery, Boston Center for the Arts
Future Fashion
Future Fashion is envisioned in many forms, curated by curator Karen Meninno @kiranofkspace, VR designer AK Liesenfeld @PunkTVR, sustainable 3D printed fashion by Marisa Chentakul and Julia Daviy Scroll down to listen to their conversation on the future of fashion: will we really all have to wear gray unitard jumpsuits in The Future?
www.melissablackall.com
Visit our Artists on the web and instagram
Freedom Baird’s Pomegranate, Thermometer, Apple was included in the Getty Museum’s Design Challenge in 2020 and is now part of their new publication, Off the Walls: Inspired Recreations of Iconic Artworks.
Visit the Experience
Our deepest thanks and appreciation to Exhibit Designer Andrew Grimanis and BCA Visual Arts director Randi Hopkins. Without their hard work and support we could not have realized our vision.
Visit the Future with Rose Eveleth: should we sublimate into another dimension??
A visitor installs model starships at Young Futurists Day
Selected Reading for FeministFuturist
Margaret Atwood Oryx and Crake
Freedom Baird Shoreline Recall
Lois McMaster Bujold Diplomatic Immunity (Vorkosigan Series)
Octavia Butler Parable of the Talents (Parable series)
Angela Carter The War of Dreams
Louise Erdrich The Future Home of the Living God
Kameron Hurley Meet Me in the Future
N.K. Jemisin How Long ‘til Black Future Month?
Madeleine L’Engle A Wrinkle in Time
Ursula LeGuin The Dispossessed, The Lathe of Heaven, The Left Hand of Darkness
Karen Lord The Best of All Possible Worlds
T.A. McLaughlin The Love of the Tayamni
Nnedi Okorafor Who Fears Death
Joanna Russ The Female Man
Emily St. John Mandel Station Eleven
Malka Older Informocracy
Alice B. Sheldon (aka James Tiptree, Jr.) Her Smoke Rose Up Forever
Lisa Yaszek, Ed. The Future is Female! 25 Classic Sci-Fiction Stories by Women
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