While women’s work, contributions and stories have often been overlooked or left out of the history books, art has long been a way for women to document, learn and teach about the women’s experience.
The theme for Women’s History Month 2023 is “Celebrating Women Who Tell Our Stories” and we’ve assembled a panel of badass female artists who have a lot of stories to tell and much to say about the ways in which art can help further gender equality.
Contemporary female artists Alexi Brock, Sana Musasama, Indira Cesarine, Barbara Lubliner, Bianca Romero and Katrina Majkut all work to pass on the heritage of the women's experiences , helping strengthen society's understanding of both the challenges and rewards of being a woman. They will discuss why it’s important to them to communicate the female experience and the ways in which their work has been influenced by the women who came before them.
All while surrounded by the beautiful environs of the Salmagundi Club in the West Village, with time to explore its collection and current exhibits while also mingling with fellow art-full New Yorkers.
The event is open to all who have an interest in the arts, culture and community. First-timers and solo 'travelers' welcome.
Art-full members are invited to stay after the panel for a sit-down dinner in the Salmagundi's dining room.*
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Full event schedule:
6pm | Cocktails & mingling in the downstairs bar
6:30 pm | Intro to the artists
6:45 pm | Panel discussion
8pm | Art-full members dinner in the dining room
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The event is open to all who have an interest in the arts, culture and community. First-timers and solo 'travelers' welcome.
Non-member tickets: $20 early bird through 3/8; $25 thereafter
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Art-full member tickets:
Panel only: $10 early bird through 3/8; $15 thereafter
*Full experience with shared apps at dinner: $35 early bird through 3/8; $40 thereafter (includes shared appetizers only; all other food/drink must be paid separately on site)
More about the artists/panelists -
Indira Cesarine is a Mexican American multidisciplinary artist who works with photography, video, painting, printmaking, and sculpture. Her work as an artist has been featured internationally at many art galleries, museums, and art fairs, including The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Hudson Valley MOCA, The Watermill Center, Mattatuck Museum, Albany Institute, CICA Museum, Smack Mellon, San Luis Obispo Museum of Art, French Embassy Cultural Center, Art Basel Miami, SCOPE Art Fair, Norwood Arts Club, Cannes Film Festival, and SPRING/BREAK Art Show to name a few.
Barbara Lubliner moves fluidly from performance art to works on paper to sculpture both large and small. Additionally, Lubliner has organized and moderated panels, taught workshops, curated shows, and started a feminist newspaper. Her art practice is a confluence of art and life. Each twist and turn is driven by the desire to play with current life concerns as the springboard for her art.
In the 1990s, Lubliner started her ongoing series of work called “Aspects of the Female Experience.” This series grew out of her experiences of giving birth and mothering. Examples can be seen in the Brooklyn Museum's online feminist art base.
Katrina Majkut (My’kut), is a visual artist, curator, and writer, is dedicated to understanding how social traditions impact social and civil rights. She uniquely pushes the boundaries of observational painting by using embroidery as a painting medium to create form or challenge its inherent social bias and history. Her heavy use of still lifes pioneer new intersectional, fourth-wave feminist strategies. Majkut exhibits nationally in both commercial and college galleries, where she lectures on gender issues, art activism, and textile arts. Majkut was listed as one of four international artists starting a new chapter in feminist art by Mic Media and repeatedly listed as a must-see artist by Hyperallergic magazine.
Sana Musasama began traveling as a way to recover identity and cultural place. Clay was a geographical catalyst that brought her first to West Africa. She studied Mende pottery in Sierra Leone (1974-75) and ventured later to Japan, China, South America and Cambodia. She has continued her quest, expanding her interests to tribal adornment practices in various indigenous cultures. She is challenged by the concerns surrounding the safety of women, specifically the rituals involving rites of passage, female chastity and the “purification” of the female body.
Bianca Romero has become known for her bold mixed media collage style which is a visual metaphor for exploring personal identity and emotional expression, more specifically, exploring the collective pieces that make each of us uniquely us. Her art is an expressionist exploration that we are each a product of all the different parts and experiences that we encounter throughout our lives.
Her style is bold in colors and collage and explores human expressions and bringing out the beauty in the collective mix of it all. Growing up in New York City and Connecticut in a multicultural household, raised by two designers has made a great impact on Bianca and the way she views the world.
Alexandra Rutsch Brock is an artist, independent curator and educator. Born in Westchester, NY, she received her BFA in Fine Art & Art Education K-12 from the School of Visual Arts, NY and her MS in Studio Art from the College of New Rochelle, NY.
She has been teaching at New Rochelle High School since 1991, where she started the annual Visiting Artists Program with Scott Seaboldt in 1993. Recent artists have included John Yau (2023), Miguel Braceli (2021), Alyse Rosner and Melissa Meyer (2020), Susan Luss (2019), Katherine Bradford (2018), Mario Moore (2017).
FAQ's
What is Women of Culture?
Women of Culture is an inclusive, intergenerational membership-based community designed to connect, empower and inspire women through meaningful engagement with the arts. We create art-based experiences for women with a creative soul who want to live more art-full, socially connected and culture-filled lives.
Originally founded in NYC, we have now expanded to Boston, LA and Miami and also offer cultural concierge and art-full trip planning services in all four cities, as well as gender-inclusive Art-full discovery walks designed for tourists and small/corporate groups in NYC.
What is the Salmagundi Club?
Salmagundi [pronounced: sal-muh-guhn-dee] is a not-for-profit 501(c)(3), professional and social club, created in 1871 by artists and patrons to support one another. Some iconic members include Thomas Moran (1837-1926), William Merritt Chase (1849-1916), Louis Comfort Tiffany (1848-1933), Emil Carlsen (1848-1932), N.C. Wyeth (1882-1945), Childe Hassam (1859-1935) and Winston Churchill (1874-1965).