tART Collective

tART Collective

tART is an art collective in NYC, engaging in art making and art collaborations through an intersectional feminist & anti-racist perspective. In 2016, tART completed a collaboration with Smoke School of Art (SSA) in Atlanta, GA, at WonderRoot, that had been two years in the making: A Bad Question, an exhibition + forum on race and feminism. In a Burnaway review, Catherine Rush wrote: “A Bad Question” prioritizes conversations about race and gender in artworks that reference broken and unexamined dominant social systems, their disastrous effects on individual and communal psyches, and the existence and evolution of different voices and modes of being...Not all artists included in this exhibition necessarily consider their work “feminist,” yet the shared goal of tART and SSA to provide support for women artists is an unequivocally feminist objective. ^[1]

tART has been around since 2004, making it the longest existing feminist art collective in NYC.^[2] tART members have presented on topics of female artist collectives and feminism at the College Art Association conference as well as the Portland State University^[3] and, in 2012, collaborated with Create Collective at the Center for Anti-Violence Educationas on a multi-arts workshop in response to a homophobic rise in street harassment in Brooklyn's Park Slope ^[4] The group has held several group shows in NYC and Prague, and their actions have included a reading of the Immigrant Manifesto.^[5]

Current artists

Suzanne Broughel, Anna Lise Jensen, Nikki Schiro, Rosemary Taylor and Petra Valentova^[6]

Past artists

damali abrams, Liz Ainslie, Keliy Anderson-Staley, Jill Auckenthaler, Julia Whitney Barnes, Suzanne Bennett, Monica Carrier, Sophia Chai, Sydney Chastain-Chapman, Laurie Close, Aisha Cousins, Melissa Cowper-Smith, Ann deVere, Maria Dumlao, Purdy Eaton, Laura Fayer, MaDora Frey, Georgia Elrod, Tara Giannini, Rachael Gorchov, Lori Hayes, Clarity Haynes, Jodie Vincenta Jacobson, Paddy Johnson, Jane Johnston, Elsie Kagan, Elaine Kaufmann, Katherine Keltner, Selena Kimball, Katy Krantz, Emily Noelle Lambert, Katerina Lanfranco, Yuliya Lanina, Rebecca Layton, Jess Levey, Lisa Lindgren, Rebecca Loyche, Jodie Lyn=Kee-Chow, Sandra Mack-Valencia, Suzanne Malitz, Glendalys Medina, Jessica Mein, Ilse Murdock, Danielle Mysliwiec, Katherine Newbegin, Charlotte Nicholson, Rachael Ostrow, Anne Polashenski, Asya Reznikov, Susan Ross, Carrie Rubinstein, Amy Shapiro, Jenn Sitron, Yasmin Spiro, Melissa Staiger, Aya Uekawa, Kathleen Vance, Sam Vernon, Julia Rosemary Williams and Treva Wurmfield^[7]

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