INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY | SAAG ARTISTS ARCHIVE
MARCH 8-31 | DIGITAL BACKGROUNDS
International Women's Day Promo | from March 8-30, 2021, receive a digital download of phone wallpaper images with each donation!
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In celebration of International Women’s Day, a limited edition digital series showcasing some of the incredible women artists from our exhibition archive will be available to download and enjoy as a background for your phone or desktop. Images are available by donation, with the proceeds going to YWCA Harbour House.
YWCA Harbour House is a 24-Hour Women’s Emergency Shelter and crisis line that assists women, and their children, fleeing abuse as well as those in crisis. In addition to providing families with crisis support, they facilitate workshops and group sessions that provide families with the tools they need to heal and create healthy lives.
International Women's Day is a global day celebrating the social, economic, cultural and political achievements of women. The day also marks a call to action for accelerating gender parity. Significant activity is witnessed worldwide as groups come together to celebrate women's achievements or rally for women's equality.
The campaign theme for International Women's Day 2021 is 'Choose To Challenge'. “A challenged world is an alert world. And from challenge comes change. So let's all #ChooseToChallenge.” This aligns with the SAAG’s mission as we strive to foster the work of contemporary artists who challenge boundaries, encourage broad public engagement and promote awareness and exploration of artistic expression. Who are the women artists that have influenced you from the SAAG?
Elaine Stocki
Stocki was raised in Winnipeg, Canada. She earned two undergraduate degrees from the University of Manitoba (Bachelor of Science and Fine Arts) before completing her Master’s degree in Photography at Yale University (2009). Elaine has exhibited at the Deutsche Guggenheim (Berlin) and Zach Feuer (New York). She divides her time between Brooklyn, New York and Winnipeg, Canada.
Lisa Klapstock
Klapstock is a Toronto-based artist who has exhibited in Canada, the U.S., and Europe at commercial, non-profit, and public galleries as well as in alternative venues. In the summer of 2002, Klapstock was an artist-in-residence at Stichting Duende in Rotterdam, The Netherlands. She is a founding member of the all-woman international artist collective Fresh Air, and is represented in Canada by Diane Farris Gallery, Vancouver. Upcoming exhibitions include solo shows in the Odense Foto Triennial, Denmark, and at Centre Vu in Quebec City; and group shows at Vancouver’s Presentation House Gallery and the Contemporary Art Forum in Kitchener, Ontario.
Jennifer Rose Sciarrino
Sciarrino’s sculpture, video, and installation works consider the living world through its entanglements in nature and technology. Recent solo and two-person exhibitions include Ruffled Follicles and a Tangled Tongue at the Southern Alberta Art Gallery, Lethbridge (2019); and But both are sensitive, Projet Pangée, Montréal (2019). Sciarrino lives and works in Toronto, and is represented there by Daniel Faria Gallery.
Alicia Henry
Alicia Henry lives and works in Nashville, Tennessee. Her work has been the subject of numerous solo and group exhibitions at institutions, including the Frist Center for the Visual Arts, Nashville (2016); the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia (2012); the Nashville International Airport (2002); the Cheekwood Museum, Nashville (2000); the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City (1997); and the Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh (1996). Henry is currently a professor of art at Fisk University in Nashville, one of the oldest black universities in the United States.