Virtual Exhibition: Breaking the Silence

Virtual Exhibition: Breaking the Silence: International Women’s Day

Virtual Exhibition: Breaking the Silence: International Women’s Day

“Breaking the Silence” is an observation of International Women’s Day. Participating artists call attention to the daily aggressions, whether physical or psychological, that all women face across the world and in every sector of society. This exhibit critiques the current social system that we live in, which permits and defends these particular inequities. “Breaking the Silence” also honors and supports women who are or have been victims of domestic violence, and recognizes the resilience of cis- and transgender women and non-binary people who work to build more equitable and safe communities for all.

Explore the Exhibition

Grettel Arrate Hechavarría

Grettel Arrate Hechavarría: Pintora, Pintora Muralista, Dibujante, Fotógrafa y Diseñadora Gráfica.

Grettel Arrate Hechavarría: Painter, Muralist, Draftswoman, Photographer and Graphic Designer.

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Leslie Barlow

Leslie Barlow (she/her) is an artist and educator working in Minneapolis, MN. Barlow uses figurative oil painting to share stories that explore the politics of representation, identity, otherness, and race.

Leslie Barlow (ella) es una artista y educadora que trabaja actualmente en Mineápolis, MN. Barlow emplea la pintura figurativa al óleo para compartir historias que exploren las políticas de representación, identidad, otredad y raza.

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Constanza Carballo

Maria Constanza Carballo is best known for turning acrylic paintings as well as murals into voice pieces that highlight the marginalized.

Maria Constanza Carballo es reconocida por convertir pinturas al acrílico y murales en obras con voz propia que arrojan luz sobre los marginados.

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Zamara Cuyun

Zamara Cuyún is, for better or worse, a product of colonization, with Indigenous roots in Guatemala–born and raised in Minneapolis.

Zamara Cuyún, para bien o para mal, existe como producto de la colonización, con raíces Indígenas en Guatemala–nacida y criada en Minneapolis.

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Carolyna DeSoto-Harris

Carolyna DeSoto-Harris is a Latinx artist based in Minneapolis, who was born in Chile. This is her 3rd year participating in the International Women’s Day art event.

Carolyna DeSoto-Harris es una artista Latinx residente en Mineápolis y nacida en Chile. Este será su tercer año participando en el evento artístico del Día Internacional de las Mujeres.

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Xena Goldman

Xena Goldman is an artist and educator from the Chicagoland area living in Minneapolis. Her work is either dramatic and emotional or playfully sardonic, using surrealism to highlight cultural absurdities.

Xena Goldman es una artista y educadora procedente del área metropolitana de Chicago que reside actualmente en Mineápolis. Su trabajo es o bien dramático y emotivo o bien alegre e irónico, empleando el surrealismo para destacar ciertas absurdeces culturales.

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Lori Greene

Lori Greene, born in Minneapolis, MN, is a mosaic and textile artist whose work draws from her African and Native American (Mississippi band of Choctaw) heritage and connects deeply with her community.

Lori Greene, nacida en Mineápolis, es una artista del textil y del mosaico. Sus obras parten de su herencia africana y nativo americana (grupo Choctaw de Mississippi), conectando así, profundamente, con su comunidad.

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Ne-Dah-Ness Greene

Ne-Dah-Ness Rose Greene is an emerging BIPOC photographer from Leech Lake. She is self-taught, mentored by the late Reginald Johnson, and has received support by numerous Indigenous entities and community members.

Ne-Dah-Ness Rose Greene es una emergente fotógrafa BIPOC (Negros, Indígenas y Personas de Color) de Leech Lake. Es autodidacta, siendo su mentor el difunto Reginald Johnson.

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Mayia Lee Hartman

Maiya Lea Hartman is an acrylic painter, muralist, and mixed-media artist living and working in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Being a self-taught artist, they look at their environment and interactions as the teacher who informs their work.

Maiya Lea Hartman es artista con especialización en pintura acrílica y técnicas mixtas, así como muralista. Actualmente vive y trabaja en Mineápolis, Minnesota. Artista autodidacta, entiende su entorno y sus interacciones como el maestro que guía su trabajo.

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Magdalena Kaluza

Magdalena Kaluza (they/them) is a life-long gardener and bike rider, having learned a huge love for nature from both their parents. Magda also inherited a deep commitment to social justice.

Magdalena Kaluza (elle) ha practicado la jardinería y el ciclismo durante toda su vida, desarrollando así un inmenso amor por la naturaleza inculcado también por sus padres. Magda ha heredado un profundo sentido del compromiso por la justicia social.

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Lissa Karpeh

Lissa Karpeh is a Liberian-American artist whose work is informed by her first-generation immigrant identity and background in mental health work. Karpeh explores the self, other, and context in her figural, richly colored oil and acrylic paintings.

Lissa Karpeh es una artista liberiano americana cuyas obras reflejan su identidad como inmigrante de primera generación y su experiencia trabajando con la salud mental. Karpeh explora la identidad propia, la otredad y sus contextos en sus ricamente coloridos óleos y acrílicos figurativos.

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Olivia Levins Holden

Olivia Levins Holden (She/ They) is a queer, mixed Boricua muralist, organizer, artist and arts educator, living on Dakota land in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Olivia Levins Holden (Ella/ Elle) es una muralista, organizadora, educadora de arte Boricua mixta y queer. Elle vive en las tierras Dakota de Minneapolis, Minnesota.

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Jesus H Lucero

Jesus H. Lucero is a first generation proud Latinx person born in El Paso, TX and raised around the Denver metro area of Colorado.

Jesus H. Lucero se define, orgullosamente, como Latinx de primera generación; vino al mundo en El Paso, TX, y creció entre el área metropolitana de Denver y Colorado.

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Pedro Pablo

Pedro Pablo (they/them) is a Venezuelan-raised, Minneapolis-based queer performance maker. Founder/director of Viva la Pepa, a collective of multi-generational queer performers in the Twin Cities.

Pedro Pablo (elle), artista e intérprete, nació y creció en Venezuela y vive actualmente en Mineápolis. Fundó y dirige Viva la Pepa un colectivo queer multigeneracional de intérpretes de las Ciudades Gemelas.

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Nell Pierce

Nell Pierce is a queer, European-American artist, muralist, organizer, and teaching artist that was raised in a family of artists and storytellers. They grew up in California and Maine, and have lived in Minneapolis, MN since 2014.

Nell Pierce, persona queer Europea- Americane, es muralista, activista y docente de arte perteneciente a una familia de artistas y narradores de historias. Creció en California y Maine, y ha vivido en Mineápolis desde 2014.

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Kenneth Rivera

Kenneth Antonio Rivera is an Art Teacher who has a strong passion for introducing students to International Women’s Day. He challenges his students with art lessons that are mindful about gender equality and raise awareness against gender bias.

Kenneth Antonio Rivera es profesor de arte, con una poderosa pasión por difundir el Día Internacional de las Mujeres entre sus estudiantes, a los que desafía con lecciones artísticas que les hagan reflexionar sobre la igualdad de género y concienciarse sobre el sexismo.
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Adele Sweeney

Adele Sweeney is 56 years old and from rural County Donegal in Ireland. She has been painting since her early teens exploring abstract and realist styles.

Adele Sweeney, de 56 años, procede del entorno rural del County Donegal, en Irlanda. Lleva pintando desde su temprana adolescencia, explorando estilos tanto abstractos como realistas.

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Thomasina Topbear

Thomasina Topbear is a self-taught Santee Dakota & Oglala Lakota muralist; she has been a member of the international all female street art crew Few & Far Women since 2015.

Thomasina Topbear es una muralista autodidacta de herencia Santee Dakota y Ogala Lakota. Ha sido miembro del grupo callejero totalmente femenino Few & Far Women desde 2015.

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Claudia Valentino

Argentine artist Claudia Valentino (Clau) was born in Mexico, she is the daughter of parents exiled by the dictatorships in South America. Valentino studied dance and photography for some years, and when she arrived in Minneapolis in 2009.

La artista argentina Claudia Valentino (Clau) nació en México, hija de padres exiliados debido a las dictaduras en Sudamérica. Valentino estudió danza y fotografía durante algunos años y, cuando llegó a Mineápolis en 2009.

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Moira Villiard

Moira (pronounced “Mee-Ree”) Villiard is a dynamic visual artist, proficient in a variety of artistic genres, including portraiture, illustration, graphic and digital design and as a muralist.

Moira (pronunciado “Mi-ri”) Villiard es una dinámica artista visual, hábil en diversos campos artísticos, incluyendo el retrato, la ilustración y el diseño gráfico y digital, así como muralista.

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