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Linda Jurkiewicz​— Artist Talk — WHO WILL HEAR MY PLEA?

Sep
16
11pm–12:00pm

Leedy-Voulkos Art Center

  • 2012 Baltimore Ave.
  • Kansas City, MO 64108
Leedy-Voulkos Art Center

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The artist continues to explore the roles of women in her latest installation, “Hear My Plea,” as she works with images of saints, martyrs, and goddesses. Using the figure she delightfully calls BAH!, which first came to her in a dream, she explores the limitations, bravery, passion, zeal, and compassion of figures related to the Catholic church, paganism, and other cultures.

Using imagery from the Renaissance and Middle Ages as a reference, a time when the general population could not read nor write, and utilized this imagery as their “lesson,” the artist observed only small differences between a woman’s life then and now.

Whom might women call today?

What messages might these images from the past offer to women today?

Who might possibly hear today’s women in their plea for help?

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