Virtual Program: Affrilachian Freedom Dreaming: Honoring Dr. Ancella Bickley
2025-03-28 10:00 - 11:00 (America/New_York) | IL
West Virginia University (WVU) Art in the Libraries’ Inaugural WVU Feminist Activist Artist Residency program presents artist Catron Booker and her project, “Affrilachian Freedom Dreaming: Honoring Dr. Ancella Bickley.”
Join Art in the Libraries and WVU Libraries on Friday, March 28 at 10 a.m. via zoom to hear from Booker about her experience as the first WVU Feminist Activist Artist Resident, her process and inspiration for exploring the Dr. Ancella Bickley archives in the West Virginia & Regional History Center and her resulting artistic product, a short film honoring Bickley.
Catron Booker, a Black feminist experimental filmmaker and performance artist, uses Afrofuturism to envision Black liberation. During the Feminist Activist Collection Artist in Residency (FAIR), she will create Affrilachian Freedom Dreaming, a short experimental film exploring Black resistance through the Dr. Ancella Bickley archival collection of the West Virginia and Regional History Center Feminist Activist Collection. Dr. Ancella Bickley (born 1930, Huntington, WV) is a historian, educator, and author known for preserving and documenting the history of Black communities in West Virginia, with a focus on oral histories, genealogy, and the contributions of overlooked Black scholars and activists. Inspired by Bickley’s focus on overlooked “community builders,” Booker will interweave archival materials with footage of the Ohio River, a historically significant landmark in Louisville. The project examines the river as both a visual metaphor and a site of historical continuity. As part of the residency, she plans a film screening and community discussion, potentially including a conversation on Bickley’s work.
To register: https://wvu.libcal.com/calendar/events/FAIR
More on the event: Art in the Libraries to host feminist activist artist to wrap inaugural residency program | Ex Libris Magazine | West Virginia University
More on Catron Booker: https://catronbooker.tumblr.com/
More on the Feminist Activist Artist in Residency Program: https://exhibits.lib.wvu.edu/special-projects/artist-in-residency

Questions: Email WVU Libraries Curator Sally Brown, sally.brown1@mail.wvu.edu.

Mirarnos desde el Este/Looking ourselves from the East, V Chinese Female Videoartists Festival
2025-05-16 19:00 - 2025-05-21 21:00 | Cine Morelos, Cuernavaca, México, Av. Morelos 188, Cuernavaca, Morelos, 62000, Mexico
The Chinese Female Videoartists Festival was launched in 2015 in Mexico City, with participating artists from both mainland China and the diaspora. This 2025 we celebrate 10 years of continuous realization of this project, whose objective is to create bridges of knowledge between China and Spanish-speaking countries through the video art of its women. This time, the inclusion of video artists from Mexico, Peru, Spain and Costa Rica, intertwines our visions with the ones coming from the East and establishes a rich dialogue to look at all of us, and to be looked at.
Chinese, Hispanic and Latin American cultures, although geographically distant, share profound social and historical parallels. However, their paths differ significantly. Bringing these artists together in our festival allows us to perceive the existing convergences that unite us as women artists and strengthen both our creative and human paths.
The thematic axes we present arose naturally from the interests and concerns of the artists themselves: their own identity in ¿Qué es eso de ser yo? (What is this about being me?); the embrace of what has been in El asedio a la memoria (The siege to Memory), the relationship with the Earth in Éramos árboles (We were trees), the ambivalent mother/earth in Donde crece la hierba (Where the grass grows), and the exploration within uncertainty in El futuro fue ayer (Future was yesterday). As a curator, I never cease to be surprised by the different, yet complementary, approaches of all the proposals presented. The works reflect not only different perspectives on life and society, but also the technological resources and aesthetic education available to them. The Hispanic-Latin American artists tend to create raw and politically charged works that speak of resilience, denunciation and resistance, while the Chinese artists take advantage of cutting-edge technology to explore futuristic and immersive narratives, while drawing on their particular observation of the world and the memory of their ancestral traditions.
Our aim is to bridge understanding and friendship between our peoples through the artistic vision of their women, to foster dialogue and collaboration, and to inspire a new generation of artists to explore the intersections between tradition and modernity, local and global, past and future. This festival, therefore, is not only a celebration of women’s video art but a call to action: the world is already interconnected, let’s act for life. Art is the creative version of love.
Elizabeth Ross

TFAP@CAA 2026 Special Session | OUTCRY: ALCHEMISTS OF RAGE
2026-02-21 11:00 - 12:30 | Hilton Chicago, 720 South Michigan Avenue Chicago, IL 60605, Chicago, IL, 60605, United States
TFAP@CAA 2026 Special Session
OUTCRY: Alchemists of Rage
Short documentary film screening & conversation with the film subject, producer, and creator of OUTCRY, Whitney Bradshaw
Chair: Kathleen Wentrack, The City University of New York, Queensborough CC
Moderator: Rachel Middleman, California State University, Chico

Saturday, February 21, 2026, 11:00am-12:30pm
Boulevard A/B (2nd Floor), Hilton Chicago
*Free and open to the public.
College Art Association 114th Annual Conference | New York City, February 18–21, 2026
The Feminist Art Project is thrilled to host a special screening of OUTCRY: Alchemists of Rage, an impactful short documentary film that highlights the power of art to drive social change. On Saturday, February 21, TFAP will host an in-person screening of the 30-minute film during the 2026 CAA conference followed by a conversation with the film subject, producer, and creator of OUTCRY, Whitney Bradshaw and Kathleen Wentrack, TFAP Managing Committee member.
OUTCRY: Alchemists of Rage follows artist and former social worker Whitney Bradshaw as she photographs women, non-binary, and genderqueer people mid-scream in cathartic group sessions where long-silenced stories conjure rage, sorrow, and joy. The film offers a visceral rallying cry for the revolutionary power of women and non-binary people’s voices.
The film is directed by Clare Major and produced by Whitney Bradshaw and Frankly Speaking Films. The score was composed by Paris Hurley of Object as Subject. Paris Hurley also did the score for Kristen Stewart’s new film The Chronology of Water. An adaptation of Lidia Yuknovitch’s acclaimed memoir. Out in theaters now. OUTCRY: Alchemists of Rage made the International Documentary Association (IDA) 2024 Shortlist for Best Short Documentary Film.
Join us to watch and discuss this powerful film!
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Whitney Bradshaw (she/her) is an artist, activist, educator, curator, former social worker and the subject and producer of OUTCRY: Alchemists of Rage (2024). Her work has been shown widely across the United States including solo shows at Atlanta Contemporary, the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, the DePaul Art Museum, Wave Pool Contemporary Art Fulfillment Center, and the 21c Museum Hotel Louisville. The Museum of Contemporary Photography, the DePaul Art Museum, Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law, Hall Art and Technology Foundation, and Sara M. and Michelle Vance Waddell collect her work, which has been published in Ms. Magazine, the New York Times, the Chicago Tribune, and Vogue. In 2023, Bradshaw was named one of NewCity Magazine’s 50 Chicago Artists’ Artists. She is currently the curator at the Lubeznik Center for the Arts in Michigan City, Indiana.
