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Saturday June 25, 7pm

Performances by:

Launa Bacon

Sara Fowler

Linda Ravenswood

Cindy Rehm

Craftswoman House

929 North Oakland Avenue

Pasadena, CA 91104

!WAR

Photograph of Guerrilla Girls in bathroom with sign, "The Birth of Feminism".

Courtesy of the Guerrilla Girls

!WOMEN ART REVOLUTION

Friday July 1, 8pm

Craftswoman House

929 N. Oakland Ave

Pasadena, CA 91104

Join Craftswoman House for a free screening of Lynn Hershman Leeson's new film !Women Art Revolution

from the !Women Art Revolution website:

For over forty years, Director Lynn Hershman Leeson has collected hundreds of hours of interviews with visionary artists, historians, curators and critics who shaped the beliefs and values of the Feminist Art Movement and reveal previously undocumented strategies used to politicize female artists and integrate women into art structures.

!Women Art Revolution elaborates the relationship of the Feminist Art Movement to the 1960s anti-war and civil rights movements and explains how historical events, such as the all-male protest exhibition against the invasion of Cambodia, sparked the first of many feminist actions against major cultural institutions. The film details major developments in women’s art of the 1970s, including the first feminist art education programs, political organizations and protests, alternative art spaces such as the A.I.R. Gallery and Franklin Furnace in New York and the Los Angeles Women’s Building, publications such as Chrysalis and Heresies, and landmark exhibitions, performances, and installations of public art that changed the entire direction of art.

New ways of thinking about the complexities of gender, race, class, and sexuality evolved. The Guerrilla Girls emerged as the conscience of the art world and held academic institutions, galleries, and museums accountable for discrimination practices. Over time, the tenacity and courage of these pioneering women artists resulted in what many historians now feel is the most significant art movement of the late 20th century.

Carrie Brownstein composed an original score to accompany the film. Laurie Anderson, Janis Joplin, Sleater-Kinney, The Gossip, Erase Errata and Tribe 8 are some of the gifted musicians who contributed to our soundtrack.

Thank You!

Thank you to all of the wonderful backers who helped us fund the Craftswoman House Kickstarter. We our grateful for your generous support!

Kathleen Adrian

Jenn Beebe
Polly Breckenridge
Geoff Brown
Carrie Bryden
Karen Dee Carpenter
Andrea Collins
Randy Collins
Troy Collins
Dave & Ginny
Julie Deamer
Marcy Eason
Jim Eason
McLean Fahnestock
Hossein Farmani
Jennie Fleming
Elyce Helford
R Janeen Hershey
Emily Hunter
Janet Jeffers
Spencer Keralis
Patricia Keefer
Lauren Knopf
Elizabeth Leister
Jo Letke
Leigh Maddox
Melissa Marion
Diana Marta
Yvette Molina
Mommalicious
Christi Nielsen
Kathy O'Dell
Michael O'Reilly
Louis Pepe
Freya Prowe
Anne Sherwood Pundyk
Pranay Reddy
Peri Richmond
Reb Roush
Jim Sebring
Hadieh M. Shafie
Moira Smiley
Kim Steele
Thomas Sturgill
Sheila Traviss
Paige Wery
Jessica White
Terry Wolverton
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Body, Gender & Ritual Workshop

Patty Chang, 1998 Melons (at a loss)

Body, Gender & Ritual

a workshop at Craftswoman House

Cindy Rehm will lead the workshop, Body, Gender & Ritual at Craftswoman House during the month of June. Participants will engage in an exploration of gender through the study and practice of performance art. Participants are encouraged to generate unique responses to topics of gender construction in society and will develop performances informed by ritual and the history of feminist performance. Workshop content will be presented through slide lectures, video documents, readings, and discussions. The workshop will culminate with a presentation of performances at Craftswoman House. No previous performance experience necessary. The workshop is free, but space is limited, so please contact cindyrehm@gmail.com to enroll.

Meeting dates:
Saturday, June 4, 12-3
Saturday, June 11 12-3
Saturday, June 18 12-3
Saturday, June 25, 7pm presentation of performances

Ana Mendieta, Untitled (Facial Cosmetic Variations) 1972

Cindy Rehm is an artist and educator. She is the founder and former director of spare room, an installation space that was located inside her private residence in Baltimore, MD. She is the recipient of an Individual Artist Fellowship in Media from the Tennessee State Arts Commission and a Learning to Love You More grant. Rehm’s work in drawing, video, and performance has been shown at Woman Made Gallery, Chicago; New York Studio Gallery, NY; Consolidated Works, Seattle; School 33, Baltimore; at Festival Miden, Kalamata, Greece; and other venues. Her work can be viewed at cindyrehm.com and she maintains a blog at themouthandtheknife.blogspot.com.

Bad Reputation

Bad Reputation

two films about girls who break the rules

Sarah + Dee

Daisies

Saturday May 14, 8pm

Join Craftswoman House on Saturday May 14 at 8pm for a double bill featuring Sarah + Dee and Daisies. Filmed forty years apart, both films feature precocious young women who escape the monotony of their lives through mischievous play. Karen Dee Carpenter’s Sarah + Dee follows two young housecleaners who feel trapped in their blue-collar life. They act out their fantasies in the up-scale suburban homes they are paid to clean and long for a more glamorous life.

In Věra Chytilová visually stunning film, Daisies, two girls, both named Marie, rebel against the boredom of their existence through playing dress-up and causing a ruckus where ever they go. The Maries tease men and leave them high and dry as they saunter off on madcap adventures. They are loud, gluttonous, and free as they mock the role of the good girl.

Sarah + Dee, 2006, 19:42 minutes, directed by Karen Dee Carpenter

Daisies (Sedmikrásky), 1966, 74 minutes, directed by Věra Chytilová, Czech with English subtitles

VOX

VOX an evening of video & performance

Saturday February 26, 7pm

Craftswoman House, 929 North Oakland Avenue, Pasadena, CA 91104

featuring: Pedestal and the All-Girl Band, Felicia Montes, Stephanie Soule-Maggio, Christine Suarez, Alyce Haliday McQueen, Ursula Brookbank, Andrea Chung, McLean Fahnestock, Elizabeth Leister, Tricia Lawless Murray, and Sister

The intimate domestic environment of Craftswoman House will play host to Vox, an evening of video and performance on Saturday February 26, 7pm in conjunction with the closing of the exhibit Unveiled. The event will feature performances by Pedestal and the All-Girl Band, Felicia Montes, Stephanie Soule-Maggio and Christine Suarez as well as video by Alyce Haliday McQueen, Ursula Brookbank, Andrea Chung, McLean Fahnestock, Elizabeth Leister, Tricia Lawless Murray, and Sister.

In Wet Spots: Solo, choreographer Christine Suarez uses text and movement to explore the history of the female orgasm. She shifts between personal and historical narratives to uncover the anxiety and humor within the realm of female pleasure.

The video works of Andrea Chung and McLean Fahnestock utilize juxtaposition and displacement to explore female experience. In The Sport of Kings, Fahnestock appropriates footage of Anita Hill’s testimony during the Clarence Thomas hearings beside footage of the horserace between filly Ruffian and the colt Foolish Pleasure. The work runs the length of the race, which was billed as “the battle of the sexes,” and serves as a visual record of the spectacle of sex in politics and sports. Chung’s Untitled (Zwayon) uses language to reveal female alienation within a quiet domestic moment.

Alyce Haliday McQueen examines vocalization and muteness through her video works Untitled (trust) and Chubby Bunny (marshmallows). Elizabeth Leister attempts a vanishing act through an act of self-stitching in her video Disappearing Act. In Sister’s The Cutter, a showgirl defies the perfecting confinement of female beauty rituals and exposes her mortal, leaking body.

Both Tricia Lawless Murray and Ursula Brookbank produce haunting moving images. Lawless Murray’s Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors, Even, subverts Duchamp’s masculine perspective, as the artist’s body becomes the primary vantage point of the work. Brookbank’s BL.SLP is a collection of fragments that flicker like a late-night dreamscape.

Vox will also include a visit from Felicia Montes’ alter ego Raramujer and the bumpin’ bici as well as a musical performance by Stephanie Soule-Maggio and a cheer-inspired song by Pedestal and the All-Girl Band.

Karen LeCocq at Craftswoman House

Feminist Art in the 1970s: A Brief Overview of the Westcoast Women's Art Movement

a lecture by Karen LeCocq

Sunday February 20th, 3pm

Craftswoman House, 929 North Oakland Avenue, Pasadena 91104

Professional artist and lecturer, Karen LeCocq is a mixed media sculptor who has shown nationally and internationally in galleries as well as major museums, among them: The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, The Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art and The Armand Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA. LeCocq was a member of the first feminist art program under the direction of Judy Chicago at CSUF and the second feminist art program at California Institute of the Arts under the direction of Chicago and Miriam Schapiro. At Cal Arts in 1971-72, she participated in the creation of WOMANHOUSE, the first public feminist collaborative art project and exhibition in the world. The project received international attention and was reviewed in TIME magazine as well as art publications around the globe.