Machisma: Evoking
a Woman's Power In the
Studio with Artist Marily Mojica Monday,
March 14th 7pm-8.30pm |
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Above:
Frida Metamorphosis Join us
for Machisma: Evoking a Woman's Power - In the Studio with
Artist Marily Mojica Monday, March 14th 7pm-8.30pm About
Marily Mojica I am a
colorist, visual and fiber artist and amateur photographer.
My ambition as an artist is to find my place in the world
and to inspire those who see my work to look more carefully
at the world around them, and to assist them in taking notice
that beauty is all around us. Artist's
Statement on Machisma I
strongly associate the word Machisma with strength, but not in a
negative way. The word machismo has a negative connotation;
however, within traditional Latino culture, “macho” also has good
aspects that are often neglected. A man who is macho is also seen
as strong, a protector. It is a force. Personally, I find my
colors to be strong and aggressive. I also like to paint women
who I perceive as strong, independent, and perhaps reckless, but
always authentic. Many times I see my art as a vehicle to tell
stories. I see my art as a tool that often opens doors of
communication. And you have to be strong to open doors of
communication. I choose the word Machisma because it is the
female counterpart of machismo. Except that our strength is not
in dominating another, but in our self-empowerment. You
can't celebrate me as a woman artist and not my strength or the
strength of my paintings Instagram
@zarily.zarily and @fridabasmoj |
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Exhibition
History Spicy
Latinx Art Show - April 2022 Ice House
Gallery, Berkeley Springs, WV Group
Show. 2 Fiber Sculptures - 2 Vejigante Masks. Every Day
Life -
January 2018 39 Street
Gallery, Brentwood, MD 2
Artists. Installation - 6 Mix Media Works. Frida
& Day of the Dead - January 2018 Artist
& Makers, Rockville, MD 3 Artist
Exhibit. 27 Paintings and 4 Sculptures. Body
Painting Day - July 2017 Washington
Square Park, NY Outdoor
Exhibition. Artist are paired with two models for body painting. Artomatic - February-
April 2017 Crystal
City, Arlington, VA Solo
Painting Exhibit. Multi week multi-media art event
help in the Washington, DC tristate area. Left:
Borderline |
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Above:
Happy Mother's Day Latin
Group Show August 2016 Torpedo
Factory, Alexandria, VA Group
Show. Paintings. Body
Painting Day July 2016 Bryant
Park, NY Outdoor
Exhibition. Artists are paired with two models for body painting. Artomatic - October -
December 2016 Potomac,
MD Solo
Painting Exhibit. Multi week multi-media art event
help in the Washington, DC tristate area. Body Painting
Day - July
2017 New York,
NY Outdoor
Exhibition. Artists are paired with two models for body painting. Left: I
Understand |
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Carnival
Celebration of the Diaspora February
2016 Pepco
Place Gallery, Washington, DC Group
Show. Paintings. Unitarian Universalist
Congregation of Rockville - Spring 2016 Rockville
MD Solo
Exhibit. Paintings. Baby
Canvas Five - November 2015 Olly Olly,
Fairfax, VA Group Exhibit. Painting. Climate Gallery Nov7 Dec 7, 2009 Long Island City Queens NY Left: I Am Woman |
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Left: 911 Curatorial
History Our
Voices: Perspectives of Women - July
2019 Ice House
Special Exhibitions Gallery, Berkeley Springs, WV Group
Exhibit. 17 Women From All Over The World Exhibiting
Multi-Media Art Works Grant
Recipient Wheaton
Art Parade September 23,2017 I created
a Float Installation associated with the Mexican artist Frida
Kahlo with the help of five other artists. Panels
& Discussions 2022 -
Silver Spring Town Center Artist of the Month Talk 2019 -
Silver Spring Town Center 2nd Annual Women in the Arts Panel
Discussion Publication
/ Video 10 January
2018. Written by Rachel Cain; Vibrantly colorful Art
in Local Gallery Addresses social issues. Daily
Campello Art News 12.01/2016 http://dcartnews.blogspot.com/2016/11/artomatic-2016-review.html Duration
23:15 video Nov;25.2016 Artist
Talk. Ambessa Conversation with Artist Marily Mojica
@Artomatic Education
History Associates
Degree - Studio Art - 2015 Montgomery College, Montgomery County, MD |
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Hearing Homelessness:
Voices from DC's
Unhoused Community with
Smithsonian Curator James Deutsch Tuesday,
March 1st 7pm-9pm |
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The
annual night-time census of persons
experiencing homelessness in the United States
identified 5,111 such individuals in the District of Columbia in
2021: 681 of them unsheltered, 3,352 in emergency shelters; and
1,078 persons in some form of transitional housing. The official
number of those “on the street” or unsheltered is certainly an
undercount, but those numbers tell only a small part of the
story. Many of those individuals who are unsheltered remain
largely invisible—deliberately ignored by passersby both visually
and aurally. |
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This
presentation seeks to correct that invisibility through hearing
the voices of those individuals, based on interviews that have
been conducted in D.C. since the late 1990s. These conversations
demonstrate the intelligence and resourcefulness that are needed
for one’s daily struggle for survival in the city, as well as
some of the ways in which individuals have learned to create
patterns of identity and form communities within an often-hostile
environment. |
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About Our Presenter James
Deutsch is a curator and editor at the
Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage in
Washington, D.C., where he has helped plan and develop public
programs on the Peace Corps, Hungary, China, Circus Arts, Apollo
Theater, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Mekong
River, U.S. Forest Service, World War II, Silk Road, and White
House workers. In addition, he serves as an adjunct
professor—teaching courses on American film history and
folklore—in the American Studies Department at George Washington
University. Deutsch has also taught American Studies classes at
universities in Armenia, Belarus, Bulgaria, Germany, Kyrgyzstan,
Norway, Poland, and Turkey. |
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Bringing
the World Back Home - a
Virtual Peace Corps Museum Share & Tell with
RPCVs Lisa Martin (Estonia 96-98) and special guest host Patricia
Wand (Colombia 63-65) & the Museum of the Peace Corps
Experience Wednesday,
March 2nd 7pm-8.30pm |
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Join us
Wednesday, March 2nd at 7pm for Bringing the World Back
Home - a Virtual Peace Corps Museum Share & Tell with
RPCV Lisa Martin (Estonia 96-98) and special
guest host Patricia Wand (Colombia 63-65) &
the Museum of the Peace Corps Experience. Returned
Peace Corps Volunteers (RPCVS) are invited to share an item &
story about it from their Peace Corps country of service (3-5
mins). Sign up in advance at lisa@silverspringtowncenter.com with a
photo of your item and brief description + your name, country and
years of service. Also learn more about the Museum of the Peace
Corps Experience with special guest host Patricia Wand. |
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About
the Museum of the Peace Corps Experience Vision The
Museum of the Peace Corps Experience envisions connecting people
around the world to inspire service and peace, showing that our
common humanity is more fundamental than the cultures and ideas
that separate us. Mission The
Museum of the Peace Corps Experience collects and preserves
stories and objects of material culture donated by volunteers who
serve in communities around the globe. It fosters cultural
understanding through education and promotes research on the
impact of Peace Corps, encouraging visitors to serve—wherever
they live, however they can. Our
Story In
1999 a group of returned Peace Corps Volunteers in Portland,
Oregon, established the Committee for a Museum of the Peace Corps
Experience. The group managed acquisition of objects, organized
professionally curated exhibitions, and pursued funding sources. The
Portland committee expanded its membership and vision to the
national level in 2016. Representatives from around the
country met prior to the Peace Corps Connect 55th anniversary
conference in Washington, DC, to strategize how to
launch a national collaboration. The following year, the
committee gathered for its first in-person planning retreat in
Denver, in conjunction with the 2017 Peace Corps Connect. The
group formulated four strategic initiatives: operations,
collections, fundraising, and technology. Goals focused on
expanding the Museum’s operation and visibility, including logo
and website design, accessioning and storing collections,
launching of virtual exhibits, reestablishing a board of
directors, securing paid staff, and identifying a site for the
physical museum. The
Committee supports the three goals of Peace Corps: 1.
Help the people of interested countries meet their
need for trained men and women. 2.
Help promote a better understanding of Americans
on the part of the peoples served. 3.
Help promote a better understanding of other
peoples on the part of Americans. An
institutional member of the American Alliance of Museums, the
Museum preserves and exhibits objects, shares Peace Corps
stories, and educates visitors, all in compliance with best
practices and highest standards of museum management. The
Committee for a Museum of the Peace Corps Experience is
a National Peace Corps Association affiliate and a
501(c)(3) private nonprofit corporation neither affiliated with
nor acting on behalf of the U.S. Peace Corps. |
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Nepantla
Place: A One Woman Show Created by
Live Garra Theatre Artistic Director Wanda Whiteside Wednesday,
March 9th 7pm-9pm |
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"Nepantla
Place" is a play about homelessness; Live Garra Theatre
puts a face on many who are invisible in our community. Effie,
the woman in the play is a sage or a "mystic Mama" and
is surviving on the streets but has an inspirational story to
tell. As she says in the play; "I wake in the sunrise and
bring the world its day over-easy; I'm taking a selfie with the
universe. Without some badness to get over, what's in goodness
sake?" “Nepantla
Place” is a living history; an interpretive oral public presentation.
“Nepantla Place” is based on the perceptiveness of a woman called
'Effie' who lives in the imaginary world that binds her between
the reality of being homeless and the emotional and spiritual
crossroads of her life -- On Nepantla Place (Aztec philosophy).
Effie's story will be a presentation of living in-between-ness. Her
humanity will enlighten the audience. Effie has been living among
the local community on the streets for over a decade. She resides
there, acting as a fulcrum to engage the on-lookers (the
audience) to pick up the mantle as a-call-to-action: just as the
seasons change. Nepantla
Origins: Named for the town known as Nepantla de Sor Juana
Inés de la Cruz, (see Tepetlixpa). Nepantla is a
concept used in Latino anthropology, social
commentary, criticism, literature and art. It represents a
concept of "in-between-ness." Nepantla is a Nahuatl
word which means "in the middle of it" or
"middle." Nepantla
was a term that was first used by the Nahuatl-speaking people in
Mexico (Aztecs) during the 16th
century. During this time, they were being colonized by the Spaniards and the concept of
being "in between" was useful to describe how the
experience felt. Some
attribute the concept directly to the colonized Aztec, and others
have attributed anthropologist, Miguel Leon-Portilla, as
first describing the concept. Leon-Portilla further describes how
indigenous people who were conquered by the Spanish created their
own "in between" culture. They would leave behind
aspects of their culture that they could not synthesize into the
new culture. In the
arts, nepantla is a creator's imaginary world that encompasses
historical, emotional and spiritual aspects of life. Nepantla as
a term might also refer to living in the borderlands or being at
literal or metaphorical crossroads. Nepantla
can also describe individuals or groups who are today in conflict
with a larger, perhaps more globally reaching culture or ideology.
Nepantla has also been identified as a tool for political change.
Individuals who live within two different "worlds" or
"cultures" can act as a hinge to engage political
discourse. |
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Wanda
Whiteside is the Artistic Director of Live Garra Theatre; she
trained at the Boston Conservatory of Music, HB Actor's Studio
and Usdan Center for the Creative and Performing Arts in New
York. She has performed professionally at the Olney Theatre
Center, the Arena Stage and the Round House Theatre. She was a
judge for the NAACP Actso competitions for two years and
presenter at the University of Maryland Black Theatre Symposium
on the state of Black Theatre in America. Wanda earned a Bachelor
of Fine Arts in Theatre Arts from Howard University, a Master of
Science in Business Management, and will receive her Doctorate of
Education in Leadership for Change from Fielding Graduate
University in May 2022. She is a founding Board member of the
Theatre Consortium of Silver Spring, Inc. and the Silver Spring Town
Center, Inc., of which she is currently on the Advisory Board.
Wanda was employed at Discovery Communications, Inc. for 15 years
as a Director/Editor. Wanda and her husband, Arthur Seaman owned
and operated the Bonifant Theatre Space in Silver Spring, MD. |
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Live
Garra Theatre, Inc endeavors to employ the cultural arts as a way
to address universal social-life issues; to illuminate all facets
of a multicultural society; fostering cross-cultural
understanding of the many ethnic voices in the community;
reinforcing the value of diversity, strengthening the social
connections among people. The word "garra" literally
means claws -- to hold on and to ‘live Garra’ (Portuguese for
prevail) means to go-the-distance and never give up. As a
resident company of the Theatre Consortium of Silver Spring, the
organization operates out of the Silver Spring Black Box Theatre
as a performance training studio; an incubator for a core
repertory of skilled poets, playwrights, and artists, as well as
providing a 'safe harbor' for the youth. Live Garra Theatre
aspires to fill the void of culturally specific Theatre,
preserving the unique legacy of the African-American heritage and
contribute to the survival of Black Theatre. |
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