{"id":4091,"date":"2022-07-21T16:31:06","date_gmt":"2022-07-21T20:31:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/fordscholars\/?p=4091"},"modified":"2022-07-21T16:31:06","modified_gmt":"2022-07-21T20:31:06","slug":"social-justice-art-prints-and-the-frances-lehman-loeb-art-center","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/fordscholars\/2022\/07\/21\/social-justice-art-prints-and-the-frances-lehman-loeb-art-center\/","title":{"rendered":"Social Justice Art Prints and the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Carissa Kolcun &#8217;25 and John Murphy the Philip and Lynn Straus Curator of Prints and Drawings<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">This summer I assisted John Murphy with preparing materials for a fall intensive class and curating the fall spotlight exhibition on the Women\u2019s Studio Workshop. While both projects divided my time, many of the materials overlapped allowing for cross-thought on how the content could engage each other within a class framework.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Women\u2019s Studio Workshop (WSW) is a studio and arts space in Rosendale, NY. It was founded in 1974 as a women-centered art space and now, under new leadership, WSW has begun to tease out what exactly \u201cwoman-centered\u201d means in a contemporary context. In approaching WSW as the subject of the spotlight exhibition, we were interested in both responding to this question alongside telling a brief history of the Workshop. In using the spotlight space, we were also engaging Vassar\u2019s connection to WSW as a repository for all their artist\u2019s books, as well as engaging WSW&#8217;s role in the broader Hudson Valley arts community<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/fordscholars\/files\/2022\/07\/IMG-4619.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-4097\" src=\"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/fordscholars\/files\/2022\/07\/IMG-4619-244x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"244\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/fordscholars\/files\/2022\/07\/IMG-4619-244x300.jpg 244w, https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/fordscholars\/files\/2022\/07\/IMG-4619-768x943.jpg 768w, https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/fordscholars\/files\/2022\/07\/IMG-4619-834x1024.jpg 834w, https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/fordscholars\/files\/2022\/07\/IMG-4619-624x766.jpg 624w, https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/fordscholars\/files\/2022\/07\/IMG-4619.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 244px) 100vw, 244px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In addition to thi<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">s project, I also planned one class session for Paper Protests, the fall intensive. After a visit to <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Interference Archives<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> in Brooklyn, I became interested in the spatial theater that posters create when in public space, and how that theater mitigates the original intention of the posters. As a community-centered organization, WSW has collected posters created for various programming and events since its inception. WSW became an outlet to explore spatial theater on a micro scale, while I found readings to guide a discussion of spatial theater on a macro scale.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/fordscholars\/files\/2022\/07\/IMG-4620.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-4095\" src=\"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/fordscholars\/files\/2022\/07\/IMG-4620-245x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"245\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/fordscholars\/files\/2022\/07\/IMG-4620-245x300.jpg 245w, https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/fordscholars\/files\/2022\/07\/IMG-4620-768x942.jpg 768w, https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/fordscholars\/files\/2022\/07\/IMG-4620-835x1024.jpg 835w, https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/fordscholars\/files\/2022\/07\/IMG-4620-624x765.jpg 624w, https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/fordscholars\/files\/2022\/07\/IMG-4620.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 245px) 100vw, 245px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Between all the research, I visited many locations across the Hudson Valley, including the WSW archives, Art Omi, and Bard CCS. I\u2019m very thankful to John Murphy as well as the rest of the Loeb staff and look forward to further exploring the curatorial process in future endeavors.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Carissa Kolcun &#8217;25 and John Murphy the Philip and Lynn Straus Curator of Prints and Drawings This summer I assisted John Murphy with preparing materials for a fall intensive class and curating the fall spotlight exhibition on the Women\u2019s Studio Workshop. 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