Women's Study Project

struggle

 The Laura Richardson Whitaker Award Winner Art series In Transition presented by the Women's Studies Department at PSU on April 12, 2011

 waiting

 adventure

 balance

 nosotras

 herstory II generational women

little boxes
artist statement; 

nWe carry our history, our ancestors and who we are on our backs  ( Anzaldua).  The women before us have shaped who we are. We cry. The stories of pain, oppression, hatred, beauty, freedom and deliverance are unsung songs carried by the winds.  The women who walked this earth, some have bore children and have come and gone. Each have a story; A story that we may not know, we may not understand, but that has affected us and has been somewhere within ourselves. Within Women’s Studies, we dig and chip away at finding these voices and what they represent in our current lives. How have these ideas, strengths and weaknesses shaped our own minds and views? In what ways can we take the positive and negative circumstances to see more clearly what these layers of lives and time have meant? This collection of art is my own personal experience as a woman in life encountering different paths and identities. Some have evolved over time, and others have been an explosion of an ephiphany moment, but all have the commonality of being my experience through many different identities in my life. 

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