womeninart.pro

Women artists play a vital role in our community and yet their stories are frequently unheard of, lost or dismissed. According to the National Museum of Women in the Arts in New York 51% of visual artists are women. When it comes to exhibitions and gallery representation, the numbers tell a far less optimistic story. Over the past decade just 11%   of all acquisitions at prominent American museums were of work by women artists. Historically speaking artistic creativity has been considered a masculine attribute.

For centuries women  were denied studying, taking part  in exhibitions, going outside for inspiration. Nowadays  females are not tied to domestic  life  and have  plenty of opportunities to choose from. Nevertheless, they still experience a huge under-presentation in the art sphere.

Being a female visual artist myself , I wonder not only about the position of a woman in today’s  art world, but also about how to become an artist. What are the dreams, troubles, feelings, thoughts on the way to creative expression?  The  intimate  experience  and  daily  life of female artists are the key to my visual investigation. I’ve asked women - artists, photographers - to send me one picture made by them, which illustrates their experience or feelings of establishment as a female artist.

The visual collective experience along with women’s stories is presented on this website. 

The aim of the project is to raise awareness of the problem and to support all the female artists.

To navigate through this work begin by clicking on a particular view in the sequence of photographs above.