L’Associazione WindMill ART POWER PLANT
Comunicato stampa, II° edizione del Women Visual artist Database
Press release translation
On the occasion of the Matres International Women’s Ceramic Festival
Cava dei Tirreni, Vietri sul Mare, Salerno
on August 27, 2022
the WindMill ART POWER PLANT Association
will present the 2nd edition of the Women Visual Artists Database
and the
Art Action FLORILEGIO
for Ernestine Virden Cannon
by Laura VdB Facchini
Women’s art gathers all women into a living artwork
President Anna Rita Fasano of the Pandora Artiste Ceramiste Association, organizer of the Matres International Women’s Ceramic Festival, inaugurates the Historical Ceramic Artists section that begins with Ernestine Virden Cannon, with an exhibition curated by Maria Grazia Gargiulo who also developed her profile for the Women Visual Artists Database.
SATURDAY 27 AUGUST – SAN GIOVANNI MONUMENTAL COMPLEX GARDEN – GARDEN
DELLE CLARISSE, CAVA DE’ TIRRENI
AT 6:30 PM PRESENTATION BY CLAUDIA BONASI OF THE BOOK BY Maria Grazia Gargiulo
and Laura Conforti: “ERNESTINE CERAMICS. SHAPE, COLOR AND INNOVATION 1948-1968”
AND PRESENTATION OF THE WOMEN VISUAL ARTISTS DATABASE PROJECT
BY Laura VdbFacchini
and Art Action
FLORILEGIO for Ernestine Virden Cannon
The publication of the WOMEN VISUAL ARTISTS DATABASE (2nd edition) will be made visible andavailable online for free on the website www.windmillart.it in the w.a.d.&Community section.
The project was launched on March 8, 2021, on the occasion of International Women’s Day, by W.A.D.& Community – Wind Mill nonprofit organization with a never-ending open call aimed at contemporary and twentieth-century visual artists.
Promoted through a social campaign of mobile art action with the video ART IS IN YOUR HANDS (2020), the project involves the construction of a database conceived as an evolving archive dedicated to the work of international artists.
A non-profit project that combines the two objectives of WindMill: on the one hand the promotion of specific studies by Art Academies and Universities, made possible by cataloging and valorizing the works and biographical profiles of the artists; on the other hand the creation of a community of artists who share the experience of this database as a living organism, intended to encourage exchanges of ideas and collaborations with the aim of placing the complexity of the female artistic experience at the center of the cultural debate in Italy and abroad.
The artists are invited to insert their story into a vision of horizontal art, sharing life and work experiences, so that their example can be a stimulus to the new generations. The artists respond spontaneously to the call, sending a biographical profile together with a selection of images of the works.
Art Historian Franca Zoccoli, wrote the beautiful text Roma com’era for Women Visual Artists Database, remembering the artists,Lilli Romanelli, Franca Sonnino, Gisella Meo, Anna Esposito.
For the 2nd edition of WOMEN VISUAL ARTISTS DATABASE the Scientific Committee, which includes Carolina Ciuti, Manuela De Leonardis, Laura VdB Facchini, Miranda MacPhail, NicolettaRicasoli.
Introducing the artists:
Minou Amirsoleimani – Stefania Balestri – Primarosa Cesarini
Sforza – Guillermina De Gennaro – Marilù Eustachio – Maura
Falfan – Felicity Griffin Clark – Laura Grisi – Fariba Karimi – Giusi
Lauriola – Lavinia Longhetto – Florencia Martinez – Patrizia
Molinari – Silvia Noferi – O.Lala – Mimì Quilici Buzzacchi – Claudia
Quintieri – Patrizia Rivera – Cinzia Sarto – Natalia Saurin – Maria
Irene Vairo – Tatiana Villani – Ernestine Virden Cannon