TFAP@CAA Day of Panels 2024 – A New Era: Art, Activism and Abortion in Post Roe America

A New Era:  Art, Activism and Abortion in Post Roe America

TFAP@CAA Day of Panels 2024
February 17, 2024, 9am – 3pm
Hilton Chicago – 3rd Floor – Waldorf Room

A New Era:  Art, Activism and Abortion in Post Roe America

Symposium Chair: Luciana McClure, Southern Connecticut State University

In 2022, Dobbs v. Jackson overturned the right to abortion in the U.S., undermining bodily autonomy and privacy. The Feminist Art Project (TFAP) looks at the way praxis as a feminist pedagogical project has changed and been transformed post Roe V. Wade. Artists have returned to the question of the role of feminist art and practice in times of crisis and violence, particularly around issues of bodily autonomy. As a result, we have seen a rise of collective solidarity between cis, queer and trans women artists and collectives leading to the surge of a new wave of feminism.

TFAP@CAA Day of Panels looks at feminist collective projects that remind us that the personal is political and that feminism is intersectional. TFAP will look critically at how artists, scholars and organizers respond to this attack on human rights and the patriarchal rhetoric about abortion and its relationship to bodily autonomy.

PROGRAM:
9am – 9:30am
Welcome – Connie Tell, Chair, Feminist Art Project National Committee
Introduction – Luciana McClure, Symposium Chair, (Southern Connecticut State University)
9:30am – 10:30am
Keynote talk – Whitney Bradshaw (Independent Artist)
11:00am – 12:00pm
Advocacy to Action: The Power of Activism, Abortion and Community Engagement
Panelists: Lydia Nobles (Independent Artist) and Michele Pred (Independent Artist)
12:30pm – 1:30pm
The Politics of Identity & the Body as Medium in Feminist Practice
Panelists: Corey Loftus (The Institute of Fine Arts, NYU), Martha Poggioli (Colorado College), and Sarah Beth Woods (Independent Artist)
2:00pm – 3:00pm
Closing Keynote & Call to Action Christen Clifford (The New School)

Videos of the 2024 Day of Panels will be available on the TFAP website soon!

TFAP is a Caucus Member of the National Women’s Caucus for Art.