BEGIN:VCALENDAR PRODID:NingEventWidget-v1 VERSION:2.0 METHOD:PUBLISH BEGIN:VEVENT UID:4320450:Event:44982 DTSTAMP:20260425T185829Z SUMMARY:The Sister Chapel: An Essential Feminist Collaboration DESCRIPTION:The Sister Chapel, a historic collaborative installation c reated at the height of the women’s art movement, is having its firs t public exhibition since 1980. Presented during National Women’s Hi story Month, the exhibition runs from March 28 through the end of June .\nAn opening reception on March 31, from 5:00 to 8:00 p.m., features a panel discussion with five of the contributing artists: Maureen Conn or, Martha Edelheit, Diana Kurz, Cynthia Mailman, and Sharon Wybrants. The moderator, Andrew D. Hottle, spent eight years researching and wr iting an extensive history of this important collaboration.\nTo house the monumental figure paintings that comprise The Sister Chapel, Maure en Connor designed a twelve-sided fabric structure that was never cons tructed. To commemorate the return of this historic collaboration, an enclosure based on Connor’s original design has been fabricated so t hat, for the first time in its history, The Sister Chapel is exhibited as its creators intended.\nConceived by Ilise Greenstein in 1974 and first exhibited in 1978, The Sister Chapel embraced the cooperative sp irit of the women’s art movement. Using a nominal pun on Michelangel o’s famous Sistine Chapel ceiling, Greenstein issued a feminist chal lenge to the patriarchal conceptualization of history. In contrast to her male predecessor, she envisioned a nonhierarchical, secular commem oration of female role models from a female perspective; thus, The Sis ter Chapel invited viewers to reconsider familiar and often unconsciou s presumptions about gender roles and women’s achievements.\nBetween 1974 and 1977, Greenstein was joined by twelve other women whose indi vidual contributions shaped the character and appearance of The Sister Chapel. In its final form, the installation consisted of Greenstein†™s eighteen-foot abstract ceiling suspended above a circular arrangeme nt of eleven nine-foot canvases, each depicting the standing figure of a heroic woman. The choice of subject was left entirely to the creato r of each work. As a result, the paintings form a visually cohesive gr oup without diminishing the individuality of the artists.\nThe Sister Chapel features contemporary and historical women, deities, and concep tual figures, including Bella Abzug—the Candidate, a portrait of the American Congresswoman and social reformer, painted by Alice Neel; Be tty Friedan as the Prophet, a portrayal of the influential author of T he Feminine Mystique, by June Blum; Marianne Moore, the American poet, by Betty Holliday; Frida Kahlo, the celebrated Mexican artist, by Shi rley Gorelick; Artemisia Gentileschi, the seventeenth-century Italian Baroque artist, by May Stevens; Joan of Arc, the sainted fifteenth-cen tury French military heroine, by Elsa M. Goldsmith; Lilith, the rebell ious first wife of Adam, by Sylvia Sleigh; God, a female manifestation of the supreme creator, by Cynthia Mailman; Durga, the powerful Hindu goddess, by Diana Kurz; Womanhero, a conceptual embodiment of female strength and power, by Martha Edelheit; and Self-Portrait as Superwoma n (Woman as Culture Hero) by Sharon Wybrants.\nAdmission to the galler y, lecture, and reception is free and open to the public. Regular gall ery hours are Monday–Friday, 10 a.m.–5 p.m., and Saturday, 12–4 p.m. For more information, call 856-256-4521, e-mail arts@rowan.edu, o r visit www.rowan.edu/artgallery.\nSupport for programming at Rowan Un iversity Art Galleries has been made possible in part by funds from th e New Jersey State Council on the Arts.\n\nFor more information visit http://phillytodo.com/events/the-sister-chapel-an-essential-feminist-c ollaboration DTSTART:20160328T140000Z DTEND:20160630T210000Z CATEGORIES:art, gallery, exhibition LOCATION:Rowan University Art Gallery West WEBSITE:http://Rowan.edu/artgallery URL:http://Rowan.edu/artgallery CONTACT:856-256-4521 ORGANIZER;CN="mary salvante":http://phillytodo.com/profile/marysalvant e ATTACH;FMTTYPE="image/jpeg":http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/ file/get/3054991426?profile=original ATTENDEE;ROLE=REQ-PARTICIPANT;PARTSTAT=ACCEPTED;RSVP=TRUE;CN="mary sal vante":http://phillytodo.com/profile/marysalvante END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR