Don’t Shut Up 2021 An overview of the exhibition curated by Susan Grabel and Stefany Benson, at the Newhouse Center for Contemporary Art on Staten Island, August 21-December 31, 2021.
Clarissa Sligh is a visual artist who makes photo-text images, artists’ books and installations on issues of social injustice, Identity, memory/history transformation and change and the environment.
Virginia Maksymowicz is a sculptor and installation artist who works in a variety of media and whose ideas revolve around social issues presented through narrative or metaphor.
Zhen Guo is a Chinese-American artist and curator creating an art distinctly Chinese while absorbing the influences and experimentations of the West.
Andrea Borsuk is a painter and story teller whose work explores notions of time and destiny, mortality and sexuality in paintings, installations of drawings, objects, and collages.
robin holder is a bi-racial interethnic artist whose work centers on the manifestations of conflicted cultural, class, gender, religious and racial identity.
Loren Dann’s work explores intersectionality by exposing difficult questions and unraveling the tangle of answers surrounding this multi-dimensional topic.
Ann Marie McDonnell is a NYC artist and educator working in a variety of mediums as a response to particular exhibitions, themes, competitions, or personal projects.
Heather Topp is a multimedia artist with a strong feminist/political bent that often reflects her community, social issues, geography and home.
Leigh Jerome artist and scholar, is consumed by the space between mortality and the infinite, knowing there is more to this world than we will ever know and far less than will ever suffice. Metal is her primary medium but she incorporates clay, textiles, found objects, wood, glass, light, sound, fragments, paint, bone & patina in mixed media compositions and immersive installations.
Susan Newmark explores social concerns, place, memory and nature by integrating collage, paint, photo imagery and layered fragments from popular culture in her work on paper and unique artists books.
On August 23, 2020, Poetic People Power held a virtual reading of its newest show, Can You Hear Me Now? This spoken word show celebrates women's voices, and it was presented the week of the 100th anniversary of the women's right to vote. Here are excerpts from the 50-minute show. Cast members are Tara Bracco, Shetal Shah, Shanelle Gabriel, Angela Kariotis, Karla Jackson-Brewer, and Suzen Baraka.
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