Claudia D. hernandez is winner of the 2018 Louise Meriwether First book prize. Her memoir, knitting the fog, will be published by the feminist press in 2019.
Women, Mujeres, ixoq: revolurionary visions photography anthology
Women, Mujeres, Ixoq:Revolutionary Visions is now available on Amazon. Please help us spread the word.
Synopsis:
"Women, Mujeres, Ixoq: Revolutionary Visions is the outcome of a photo, video, and oral history project named: Today’s Revolutionary Women of Color, which is organized to share the creativity of women artists whose writing, paintings, and careers carry a theme of social justice. With their words, their art, and their photographs, the aim of this book is to display for the world women whose visions may transform communities and inspire young women to lead us into the future. Regardless of gender and positionality, its intent is to educate and inspire young minds to become the role models we need. Also, to keep in mind that revolutionary women, must nurture young boys to become respectful men who love and treat women as equal human beings. Women, Mujeres, Ixoq: Revolutionary Visions is a reminder that we all have a story of resilience and that every woman is a revolutionary in her own right."
Click on the link below to get your copy:
www.amazon.com/Women-Mujeres-Ixoq-Revolutionary-Visions/dp/0692969985/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1515957579&sr=8-1&keywords=women+mujeres+ixoq
Synopsis:
"Women, Mujeres, Ixoq: Revolutionary Visions is the outcome of a photo, video, and oral history project named: Today’s Revolutionary Women of Color, which is organized to share the creativity of women artists whose writing, paintings, and careers carry a theme of social justice. With their words, their art, and their photographs, the aim of this book is to display for the world women whose visions may transform communities and inspire young women to lead us into the future. Regardless of gender and positionality, its intent is to educate and inspire young minds to become the role models we need. Also, to keep in mind that revolutionary women, must nurture young boys to become respectful men who love and treat women as equal human beings. Women, Mujeres, Ixoq: Revolutionary Visions is a reminder that we all have a story of resilience and that every woman is a revolutionary in her own right."
Click on the link below to get your copy:
www.amazon.com/Women-Mujeres-Ixoq-Revolutionary-Visions/dp/0692969985/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1515957579&sr=8-1&keywords=women+mujeres+ixoq
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WOMEN, MUJERES, IXOQ: REVOLUTIONARY VISIONS
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I am thrilled to announce that Conocimientos Press will publish my photography book titled WOMEN, MUJERES, IXOQ: REVOLUTIONARY VISIONS by the end of the year. I've been working on Today's Revolutionary Women of Color project for the past five years photographing and interviewing phenomenal women from across the country. I'm grateful to all the women who made this possible. Thank you for submitting your poetry, prose, essays, and paintings depicting courage and resilience. Thank you, Norma Elia Cantú, for the gorgeous forward. And you, my dear Josie Mendez-Negrete, thank you for your love, patience, and for your faith in me.
Here's the list of the thirty-nine women who are getting published: Alma Flor Ada Juana Alicia Almaz Luz Villanueva Kim Cornelia Banton Ana Castillo Laura Lacamara Antonia Darder Leticia Hernandez Mama Ayanna Mashama Laureen Adams Avotcja Lilia E. Sarmiento Bhavna Mehta Margaret Garcia Carmen Calatayud Marisa Urrutia Gedney Carolyn Brandy Maria J. Hernández Diana Pando Melanie Cervantes Fe Evaone Melinda Palacio Gabriela Malinalxochitl Zapata Nancy Aidé González Genevieve Lim Nancy Hom Holly Ayala Odilia Galván Rodríguez Irene Carranza Rosa Martha Zarate Iris De Anda Sonya Fe Isabel Campoy Rossy Evelin Lima Josie Mendez-Negrete Tara Evonne Trudell Joy Harjo Xanath Caraza Zayra Yves |
Today’s Revolutionary Women of Color online auction
Today’s Revolutionary Women of Color will be conducting an online fundraiser in the next following weeks. We need your support. Many artists have donated art pieces, which will be auctioned online via EBAY, TRWOC website, and its Facebook page. Please help us spread the word by sharing the pieces online with your friends.
On December 9, 2012, we raised $1,387 through Indiegogo. We need to raise more money to cover the costs of publishing a photography book depicting stories of resilience by women of color.
We appreciate any contributions that you have made to the project in the past. If you still wish to donate, please send a message via TRWOC Facebook page for inquiries. Here’s the link: https://www.facebook.com/TodaysRevolutionaryWomenOfColor?ref=hl Or you may click on the icons below to make a donation via your Paypal Account.
On December 9, 2012, we raised $1,387 through Indiegogo. We need to raise more money to cover the costs of publishing a photography book depicting stories of resilience by women of color.
We appreciate any contributions that you have made to the project in the past. If you still wish to donate, please send a message via TRWOC Facebook page for inquiries. Here’s the link: https://www.facebook.com/TodaysRevolutionaryWomenOfColor?ref=hl Or you may click on the icons below to make a donation via your Paypal Account.
"CACTUS HAVE FLOWERS, ROSES HAVE THORNS" BY SONYA FE
JUANA ALICIA will be participating in EAST BAY OPEN STUDIOS 2014
JUANA ALICIA WILL BE PARTICIPATING IN EAST BAY OPEN STUDIOS 2014
June 7 - 8 and 14 - 15, 11am - 6pm
2016 9th Street (between University Avenue and Addison Street)
Berkeley, CA 94710This year's featured print will be “EL FUTURO", Silk Screen Print of Stanford University’s El Centro Chicano murals. Juana Alicia ©2012 All Rights Reserved.
Sales of "El Futuro" will benefit the Chicana Latina Foundation (http://www.chicanalatina.org/ and https://www.facebook.com/events/149456025256090/)
East Bay Open Studios offers an opportunity for art fans of all ages to visit artists' studios,
glimpse the creative process,and purchase work directly from local artists.
Since 1979, East Bay Open Studios remains the largest art event in the region, drawing
an annual audience over 60,000!For more information on ProArts Open Studios:
http://www.proartsgallery.org/ebos/
A community gathering with Today's Revolutionary Women of Color: San Francisco 2013
Video excerpt credit: Jimmy Alvergue and Carolina Gratianne from San Francisco State University
Photo Credit: Edna Lucía Santizo
Photo Credit: Edna Lucía Santizo
Photo Credit Michelle Gutiérrez
A Story of concentric circles by Leticia Hernandez
Amate: Women Painting Stories and Today’s Revolution Women of Color Project
Next Saturday, on October 26th, phenomenal women will gather at Galería de la Raza in the Mission District of San Francisco to share practice, testify to struggle, and inspire through poetry and performance. This event is the culmination of a new partnership between my series, Amate and the incredible book/exhibit/video project that Claudia D. Hernández has begun.
For ten years, I produced a yearly event that convened an incredible community of women writers, artists, and performers from across California and beyond. Amate: Women Painting Stories was born as a circle of women, as an impulse to continue tradition like the one I had experienced a few years before at Brava Theater Center. Amate, initially titled Pinta tu Propio Mundo, was my tribute to a transformational performance workshop for women of color, led by Elizabeth Summers, where I made deep connections, lasting friendships and began a regular writing regimen. This experience compelled me to forge space, cultivate a safe and intentional spotlight for women of color, for political women, for queer women, for mis hermanas, who understood how much risk and danger surrounded our speech and were prepared to put it on full blast.
Amate grew from asmall salon in 2001, crammed into the backroom of Galería de la Raza, to an intergenerational poetry reading the following year, to an event showcasing performance art, music and poetry, to line ups including San Francisco poet laureates, to a show featuring an artist bazaar, to interdisciplinary events that included multimedia, multicultural performances by both established and emerging artists. I decided to end the annual event series in Year 10, and featured two pioneers who deeply influenced my path as an artist, Naomi H. Quiñonez and Brenda Wong Aoki. To have closed the series with them and many past participants was a powerful full circle for me. In the past few years, Amate has begun to expand its reach through community building among women artists through event sponsorship and c0-production.
I met Claudia D. Hernández last year when she invited me to be part of her project, Today’s Revolutionary Women of Color. She walked through the door of my home with her camera and her vision, and asked me to share my story with her. It was like we had always known each other, and we became immediate co-conspirators and friends. Her project includes photography, oral history, and creative writing, by and about women working in and for their communities as leaders, artists, and change makers. I was excited and honored by Claudia’s invitation, and later, sent her an invitation in return. Since August we have been working together, with Ani Rivera from Galería de la Raza, to plan a day-long fundraiser that initially was going to include a panel, writing workshop and poetry reading. Claudia was able to confirm an impressive number of the women profiled in the project to participate.
Life intervenes, however, and because of a recent epidemic of evictions affecting families and artists in San Francisco and in the Mission community in particular, we have changed plans. We will be presenting a community gathering that includes a symposium and poetry reading from 1-4 p.m., and we are asking our attendees to join us in supporting the evening event down the street at Brava Theater Center. Our Mission: No Eviction! is a community action to benefit Mission artists Rene Yañez and Yolanda Lopez.
When this urgent fundraiser was announced for these two seminal artists in our Mission community (and my neighbors), we had to figure out how to honor the commitment over fourteen women had made to be part of the Today’s Revolutionary Women event, and how to support the community action. On October 26th, today’s revolutionary women and their allies will gather during the day, at Galería de la Raza, and stand with the Mission community that evening. We hope you will join us.
Build community with inspirational women featured in this project and learn more about the book and traveling art exhibit.
Today’s Revolutionary Women of Color Project: A Community Gathering
Hosted by: Claudia D. Hernández & Leticia Hernández
Saturday, October 26, 2013
Galería de la Raza
2857 24th St, San Francisco, CA
Saturday, October 26th
Symposium 1:00 – 2:15 p.m.
Poetry Reading 2:30 – 4:00 p.m.
Entrance fee / Donation: $20
FEATURED POETS AND ARTISTS:
Alma Flor Ada • Avotcja • Mama Ayanna Mashama • Betty Sánchez •Carolyn Brandy • Genny Lim Holly Ayala • Isabel Campoy • Leticia Hernández • Melanie Cervantes • Nancy Aidé González • Nancy Hom • Odilia Galván Rodríguez • Zayra Yves
SPONSORED BY: Amate: Women Painting Stories; Artillery Apparel Gallery; Galería de la Raza; Poets & Writers, Inc. through a grant it has received from the James Irvine Foundation.
http://amate-womenpaintingstories.tumblr.com/post/64755195833/a-story-of-concentric-circles
Next Saturday, on October 26th, phenomenal women will gather at Galería de la Raza in the Mission District of San Francisco to share practice, testify to struggle, and inspire through poetry and performance. This event is the culmination of a new partnership between my series, Amate and the incredible book/exhibit/video project that Claudia D. Hernández has begun.
For ten years, I produced a yearly event that convened an incredible community of women writers, artists, and performers from across California and beyond. Amate: Women Painting Stories was born as a circle of women, as an impulse to continue tradition like the one I had experienced a few years before at Brava Theater Center. Amate, initially titled Pinta tu Propio Mundo, was my tribute to a transformational performance workshop for women of color, led by Elizabeth Summers, where I made deep connections, lasting friendships and began a regular writing regimen. This experience compelled me to forge space, cultivate a safe and intentional spotlight for women of color, for political women, for queer women, for mis hermanas, who understood how much risk and danger surrounded our speech and were prepared to put it on full blast.
Amate grew from asmall salon in 2001, crammed into the backroom of Galería de la Raza, to an intergenerational poetry reading the following year, to an event showcasing performance art, music and poetry, to line ups including San Francisco poet laureates, to a show featuring an artist bazaar, to interdisciplinary events that included multimedia, multicultural performances by both established and emerging artists. I decided to end the annual event series in Year 10, and featured two pioneers who deeply influenced my path as an artist, Naomi H. Quiñonez and Brenda Wong Aoki. To have closed the series with them and many past participants was a powerful full circle for me. In the past few years, Amate has begun to expand its reach through community building among women artists through event sponsorship and c0-production.
I met Claudia D. Hernández last year when she invited me to be part of her project, Today’s Revolutionary Women of Color. She walked through the door of my home with her camera and her vision, and asked me to share my story with her. It was like we had always known each other, and we became immediate co-conspirators and friends. Her project includes photography, oral history, and creative writing, by and about women working in and for their communities as leaders, artists, and change makers. I was excited and honored by Claudia’s invitation, and later, sent her an invitation in return. Since August we have been working together, with Ani Rivera from Galería de la Raza, to plan a day-long fundraiser that initially was going to include a panel, writing workshop and poetry reading. Claudia was able to confirm an impressive number of the women profiled in the project to participate.
Life intervenes, however, and because of a recent epidemic of evictions affecting families and artists in San Francisco and in the Mission community in particular, we have changed plans. We will be presenting a community gathering that includes a symposium and poetry reading from 1-4 p.m., and we are asking our attendees to join us in supporting the evening event down the street at Brava Theater Center. Our Mission: No Eviction! is a community action to benefit Mission artists Rene Yañez and Yolanda Lopez.
When this urgent fundraiser was announced for these two seminal artists in our Mission community (and my neighbors), we had to figure out how to honor the commitment over fourteen women had made to be part of the Today’s Revolutionary Women event, and how to support the community action. On October 26th, today’s revolutionary women and their allies will gather during the day, at Galería de la Raza, and stand with the Mission community that evening. We hope you will join us.
Build community with inspirational women featured in this project and learn more about the book and traveling art exhibit.
Today’s Revolutionary Women of Color Project: A Community Gathering
Hosted by: Claudia D. Hernández & Leticia Hernández
Saturday, October 26, 2013
Galería de la Raza
2857 24th St, San Francisco, CA
Saturday, October 26th
Symposium 1:00 – 2:15 p.m.
Poetry Reading 2:30 – 4:00 p.m.
Entrance fee / Donation: $20
FEATURED POETS AND ARTISTS:
Alma Flor Ada • Avotcja • Mama Ayanna Mashama • Betty Sánchez •Carolyn Brandy • Genny Lim Holly Ayala • Isabel Campoy • Leticia Hernández • Melanie Cervantes • Nancy Aidé González • Nancy Hom • Odilia Galván Rodríguez • Zayra Yves
SPONSORED BY: Amate: Women Painting Stories; Artillery Apparel Gallery; Galería de la Raza; Poets & Writers, Inc. through a grant it has received from the James Irvine Foundation.
http://amate-womenpaintingstories.tumblr.com/post/64755195833/a-story-of-concentric-circles
Amate: Women painting Stories presents
Galería de la Raza
2857 24th St, San Francisco, CA
Saturday, October 26th 1 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.
Hosted by:
Claudia D. Hernández & Leticia Hernández
Symposium 1:00 – 2:15 p.m.
Poetry Reading 2:30 – 4:00 p.m.
Entrance fee / Donation: $20
Featured poets and artists:
Alma Flor Ada · Avotcja · Ayanna Mashama · Betty Sanchez · Carolyn Brandy · Claudia D. Hernández · Genny Lim · Holly Ayala Isabel Campoy · Leticia Hernández · Melanie Cervantes · Nancy Aidé González · Nancy Hom ·
Odilia Galván Rodríguez · Zayra Yves
Sponsors:
Amate: Women Painting Stories · Poets and Writers
Artillery Apparel Gallery · Galería De la Raza
2857 24th St, San Francisco, CA
Saturday, October 26th 1 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.
Hosted by:
Claudia D. Hernández & Leticia Hernández
Symposium 1:00 – 2:15 p.m.
Poetry Reading 2:30 – 4:00 p.m.
Entrance fee / Donation: $20
Featured poets and artists:
Alma Flor Ada · Avotcja · Ayanna Mashama · Betty Sanchez · Carolyn Brandy · Claudia D. Hernández · Genny Lim · Holly Ayala Isabel Campoy · Leticia Hernández · Melanie Cervantes · Nancy Aidé González · Nancy Hom ·
Odilia Galván Rodríguez · Zayra Yves
Sponsors:
Amate: Women Painting Stories · Poets and Writers
Artillery Apparel Gallery · Galería De la Raza
Revolutionary woman Alma Luz Villanueva's latest novel is out!
Xochiquetzal and Javier meet at a resort near Puerto Vallarta and begin a highly erotic love affair of 12 years, which extends beyond, into the Mayan Sixth World. There’s a weaving of dreams as they meet crucial people on their travels: Ai from Tokyo, traveling the world to plant peace crystals in honor—and warning—of the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki; Hank, a Hopi man who gives them vital and timely information on the Hopi prophecies; Don Francisco from Oaxaca/Chiapas, a Mayan shaman who brings the wisdom of the coming Mayan Sixth World; and Ari, an Israeli Commando whose family story brings the Jewish Holocaust to light passionately. Everyone eventually meets in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, where Xochiquetzal and Javier live, and at an all night fiesta at a magical mansion, everyone’s personal and collective wounds are revealed and healed.
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Amate:Women painting Stories BECOMES A SPONSOR
Exciting Announcement!!!
AMATE: WOMEN PAINTING STORIES will sponsor a fundraiser for TODAY'S REVOLUTIONARY WOMEN OF COLOR project.
WHEN: October 26, 2013
TIME: TBA
WHERE: Galería de la Raza
2857 24th Street
San Francisco, CA.
PLANNED ACTIVITIES INCLUDE:
- Panel discussion with the women who are part of the project
- Writing Workshop led by poet Leticia Hernández-Linares
- Art auction
- Poetry reading / performances
***Please save the date and help us spread the word***
With your monetary support and efforts to spread the word, we will be able to purchase as many photography books to give as a gift to the young women who attend the opening night of the exhibit / book release.
AMATE: WOMEN PAINTING STORIES will sponsor a fundraiser for TODAY'S REVOLUTIONARY WOMEN OF COLOR project.
WHEN: October 26, 2013
TIME: TBA
WHERE: Galería de la Raza
2857 24th Street
San Francisco, CA.
PLANNED ACTIVITIES INCLUDE:
- Panel discussion with the women who are part of the project
- Writing Workshop led by poet Leticia Hernández-Linares
- Art auction
- Poetry reading / performances
***Please save the date and help us spread the word***
With your monetary support and efforts to spread the word, we will be able to purchase as many photography books to give as a gift to the young women who attend the opening night of the exhibit / book release.
Here are some ways you can help support TODAY’S REVOLUTIONARY WOMEN OF COLOR project:
1. ‘LIKE’ us on Facebook 2. Share the interviews/photographs/events on your: — websites, blogs, Facebook page, 3. Participate in the Fundraising Events — Physically/Spiritually 4. Donate $ if possible: |
Fundraising Cyclothon
When: Saturday, March 30, 2013
Time 8:00 am
Where: Hollydale Park
Entry Fee/Donations start at: $10
This cycling tour has been created to raise funds for Today's Revolutionary Women of Color project. Your Donation/ entry fee, will buy you a raffle ticket. I will be raffling off one of my photograph pieces. Everyone will have the chance to win other prizes as well.
SPONSORS:
Cruz Cycling Club LunaSol Mexican Vintage Irene Carranza Fine Art
The money raised for this event will help publish and purchase the photography books that will be given out as a gift to the women who attend the opening night of the exhibit.
This is a 30-mile tour. All cyclists will meet at Hollydale Park at 8:00 am. We will create two groups: advanced and beginners. These will be guided by cyclists leaders.
The tour will commence at 9:00 am going south, towards Long Beach on the LA River bed. The turn around point will be at the Long Beach lighthouse heading back to Hollydale Park, where the tour will end.
Time 8:00 am
Where: Hollydale Park
Entry Fee/Donations start at: $10
This cycling tour has been created to raise funds for Today's Revolutionary Women of Color project. Your Donation/ entry fee, will buy you a raffle ticket. I will be raffling off one of my photograph pieces. Everyone will have the chance to win other prizes as well.
SPONSORS:
Cruz Cycling Club LunaSol Mexican Vintage Irene Carranza Fine Art
The money raised for this event will help publish and purchase the photography books that will be given out as a gift to the women who attend the opening night of the exhibit.
This is a 30-mile tour. All cyclists will meet at Hollydale Park at 8:00 am. We will create two groups: advanced and beginners. These will be guided by cyclists leaders.
The tour will commence at 9:00 am going south, towards Long Beach on the LA River bed. The turn around point will be at the Long Beach lighthouse heading back to Hollydale Park, where the tour will end.
David and SAori Jansen
David and Saori Jansen from Fresno, Ca. took home my South American piece titled: "The Rhythm of Landscape"
Celena Corona
Celena Corona from Downey, Ca. took home, "How Fire Is A Story, Waiting" poetry book signed by author Melinda Palacio
Frank Kearns
Frank Kearns, a poet from Downey, Ca. took home, "La Bella Mujer" 2013 calendar signed by Artist Irene Carranza
AMATE: WOMEN PAINTING STORIES
Exciting Announcement!!!
AMATE: WOMEN PAINTING STORIES will sponsor a fundraiser for TODAY'S REVOLUTIONARY WOMEN OF COLOR project.
WHEN: October 26, 2013
TIME: TBA
WHERE: Galería de la Raza
2857 24th Street
San Francisco, CA.
PLANNED ACTIVITIES INCLUDE:
- Panel discussion with the women who are part of the project
- Writing Workshop led by poet Leticia Hernández-Linares
- Poetry reading / performances
- Art auction
***Please save the date and help us spread the word***
With your monetary support and efforts to spread the word, we will be able to purchase as many photography books to give as a gift to the young women who attend the opening night of the exhibit / book release.
AMATE: WOMEN PAINTING STORIES will sponsor a fundraiser for TODAY'S REVOLUTIONARY WOMEN OF COLOR project.
WHEN: October 26, 2013
TIME: TBA
WHERE: Galería de la Raza
2857 24th Street
San Francisco, CA.
PLANNED ACTIVITIES INCLUDE:
- Panel discussion with the women who are part of the project
- Writing Workshop led by poet Leticia Hernández-Linares
- Poetry reading / performances
- Art auction
***Please save the date and help us spread the word***
With your monetary support and efforts to spread the word, we will be able to purchase as many photography books to give as a gift to the young women who attend the opening night of the exhibit / book release.