Tuesday, March 1, 2022

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Machisma: Evoking a Woman's Power

In the Studio with Artist Marily Mojica

Monday, March 14th 7pm-8.30pm

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

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

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

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

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

Hearing Homelessness: Voices from

DC's Unhoused Community

with Smithsonian Curator James Deutsch

Tuesday, March 1st 7pm-9pm

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

Nepantla Place: A One Woman Show

Created by Live Garra Theatre Artistic Director Wanda Whiteside

Wednesday, March 9th 7pm-9pm

"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.

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.

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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