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Conversations + Essays
During COVID-19, ArtW reached out to its network of female artists across disciplines to connect over their shared quarantine experiences and how this time is affecting their creative process.


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In Conversation with Grimanesa Amorós
We talk with Grimanesa about everything from childhood influences in engineering to her Peurvian heritage to the development of an...
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‘What Would The Egg Do?’ – Open Call and Online Exhibit
The exhibition celebrates the wisdom of the menstrual cycle on 100th anniversary of women gaining the legal right to vote, originally...
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In Conversation with Rinat Sherzer
Rinat Sherzer, interdisciplinary biotech engineer and ethical design strategist, shares her multi-faceted approach to spreading the...
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In Conversation with Yelena Popova
Yelena Popova, Russian multi-media artist, recounts her fascination with nuclear history and shares how she's brought this passion into...
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In Conversation with Fion Gunn
Fion Gunn shares the value she places on ideas over medium and takes us on a vivid journey from Venice to Shanghai. To hear the audio...
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In Conversation with Catherine Goodman
Catherine Goodman's vibrant, thoughtful and energetic paintings are conversations between her diverse process that includes considering...
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In Conversation with Anj Smith
Anj Smith delves into the silver linings of her coronavirus experience and her intricate painting process that brings her so much joy....
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In Conversation with Claudette Johnson
Claudette Johnson shares her expansive drawing and painting process that brings figures to life as well as the story of her role in the...
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In Conversation with Renate Bertlmann
Renate Bertlmann, a founding artist of the feminist movement, shares over 50 years of experiences in the art world and her never-ending...
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In Conversation with Victoria Manganiello
Textile-based multi-media artist and educator Victoria Manganiello shares her unique process that transforms colorful dye and thread into...
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In Conversation with Melissa Balmain
Author and poet Melissa Balmain humors us with mother-daughter travel tales from her book "Just Us" along with her other amazing...
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In Conversation with Julie Heffernan
Imaginative painter Julie Heffernan divulges the intricacies of her painting process and the image streaming she uses to dive deep into...
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In Conversation with Ingrid Pollard
British artist and photographer Ingrid Pollard shares the lens through which she views her photographic process and the power it has to...
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In Conversation with Naomie Kremer
Naomie Kremer shares her creative process during COVID-19 and the history of her multi-faceted painting process that incorporates video,...
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In Conversation with Silvia Gambrione
In our conversation with Italian artist Silvia Gambrione, we discovered the way she uses performance, installation, sculpture and sound...
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In conversation with Anita Glesta
We talked with Anita Glesta, multi-disciplinary artist, about everything from soup to the biology of the human body to global...
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"Virus"– an essay by Bex E Brian
By: Bex E Brian To hear the essay read aloud by Bex E Brian click here. My father was terribly British. Not high born, but definitely of...
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In conversation with Bex E Brian
Bex E Brian shared what she's been creating in the kitchen during quarantine as well as her newest novel, Radius. To hear the audio of...
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In conversation with Anna Kott
We heard from Anna Kott about her experience at Hauser & Wirth Residency, her strengthened process during COVID-19, and her favorite...
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In conversation with Kathleen Gilje
We began our discussion with Kathleen Gilje hearing about her experience in Soho during the COVID-19 quarantine, but ended up traveling...
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In conversation with Eleanor Heartney
In our discussion with Eleanor Heartney, we dive into the eerie relevance of her most recent book, "Doomsday Dreams"– an examination of...
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