ONLINE CATALOG - WORDS AND PICTURES

In lieu of a catalog, we put up the website dontshutup2021.com

It has all the statements, images and links to artists websites.plus video interviews with a few of the artists.I suggest you put it on all communications about the show and on your website.

DON'T SHUT UP

Conceived in 2019 | Postponed in 2020 because of Covid | Finally coming to the Newhouse Center for Contemporary Art | Snug Harbor Cultural Center and Botanical Garden | 1000 Richmond Terrace | Staten Island, NY August 21 - December 31, 2021 Opening reception Saturday, August 21, 2021 12-5 pm outdoors in Shinbone Alley Admission free for opening reception

Guest curated by Susan Grabel and Stefany Benson Through interruptions, censure, violence and threatening behavior — both in person and online — women are silenced every day. Don’t Shut Up 2021 provides a platform to ensure that women’s voices are heard and valued. For more informattion and upcoming programs go to dontshutup2021.com and https://snug-harbor.org/newhousecenter/ Artists: Audrey Frank Anastasi, Nancy Azara, Kyra Belan, Marcia Bernstein, Andrea Borsuk, Jo-Ann Brody, Pauline Chernichaw, Regina Corritore, Loren Dann, Anne Drager, Susan Duby, Sharyn Finnegan, Betsey Garand, Laura Gelsomini, Joan Giordano, Carol Goebel, Janet Goldner, Susan Grabel, Grace Graupe-Pillard, Zhen Guo, Melanie Hickerson, robin holder, Leigh Jerome, Carla Rae Johnson, Susan Kaplow, Tania Kravath, Barbara Lubliner, Cynthia Mailman, Virginia Maksymowicz, Ann Marie McDonnell, Marjorie Morrow, Vernita N’Cognita, Ruth Bauer Neustadter, Susan Newmark, Kristi Pfister, Helen Redman, Louise Reiner, Pam Shields, Clarissa Sligh, Linda Stein, Heather Topp, Audrey Ushenko, Doris Vila, Joyce Ellen Weinstein, Nancy Quin & Deborah Woodbridge $5 Gallery Admission | $4 Students/Seniors/Members Free for students grades 6-12 with student ID and for all for opening festivities Hours: Fri –Sat, 12:00 PM – 7:00 PM, Sun, 11:00 AM – 5:00 PM.

MONA CARON - ARTIVIST

Mona Caron does paintings of weeds. Of those common invasive plants and flowers that just won't give up. Except she paints them 30 stories tall. These marvelous wonders, made large and respectable.

HOW TO BUILD A PAINTING

 Draw out ideas. Like writing, the thought takes form in this 3-D world.

 

 

Then the hammering out the actual form needs editing and explorations. Each object becomes a teacher. Chasing information to make an image in the world.

 

Starting with thin watery paint, experiments with color are so very fun. Like musical notes of high and low.
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 This is a fairy tale and absolutely real, inside and out.