Roots and Fruits: : Exploring the History and Impact of the Women's Art Registry of MinnesotaMain MenuRoots and Fruits : Exploring the History and Impact of the Women's Art Registry of MinnesotaCurator's IntroductionAcknowledgementsRootsROOTS : IntroductionIntroduction1973 : Early Formation1973 : Women's Erotic Art Exhibition1974 : Women’s Work 11 Exhibition1975 : Woman Art Exhibition1976 : WARM: A Women’s Collective Art Space1978 : WARM Journal1982 : Rent-a-Mentor Program1986 : A National Conference & Juried ExhibitionFruitsThread : Arts Core Program for WomenThread : WARM’s Mentor ProgramThread : Wet PaintThread : Women’s Art InstituteHeather Carroll8442613dd0a637c7584c42fc211c838ae2446814The Catherine G. Murphy Gallery at Saint Catherine University : St. Paul, Minnesota
Everything That Rises
1media/Jennings_thumb.jpg2020-02-13T13:48:31-08:00Heather Carroll8442613dd0a637c7584c42fc211c838ae2446814345711Oil on canvas, by Ann Jennings.plain2020-02-13T13:48:31-08:00Heather Carroll8442613dd0a637c7584c42fc211c838ae2446814
Jennings—described as a “radical nun” by Judy Chicago—worked closely with Carole Fisher to develop a studio curriculum for the Arts Core Program for Women that provided a safe environment for women artists to explore feminism in their work. Jennings spent a summer in California “training” with Chicago for the program, and appropriately described the Arts Core as “pioneering” in its approach of women-centered art instruction combined with a women-only community of support.
Artist statement: "I’ve been primarily a printmaker and gardener. Over the years my art became increasingly about landscape and spiritual search. For some years my prints were abstract landscapes with an interior light; more recently the imagery more closely relates to the garden I’ve been creating over 30 some years. Images remain abstract, but the light is brighter, more naturalistic, the feeling more expansive and affirming. Almost all of this work incorporates an upward movement (aspiring) as I’ve kept thinking (hoping) that "everything that rises [might eventually] converge."
