Sherri Cornett
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    • COMMUNITY GROVE
    • CONVERSATIONS AMONG WOMEN
    • FLOW Interactive Exhibition and Community Project >
      • EXHIBITION Flow
      • VOICES OF THE RIVER SYMPOSIUM Flow
      • MIXING OIL and WATER Film Night and Discussion Flow
      • WORDS ON WATER: POETRY AND JAZZ IN CONCERT Flow
      • LIVING IN HARMONY ON THE YELLOWSTONE Flow
      • YOUTH OUTREACH Flow
      • READING AREAS MSUBillings Library Flow
      • YELLOWSTONE RIVER CUMULATIVE EFFECTS ANALYSIS Flow
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    • CHINA Half the Sky: Intersections in Social Practice Art, Luxun Academy of Fine Arts, Shenyang 2014 >
      • ART & ARTISTS/CHINA Half the Sky
      • ART & ARTISTS/US Half the Sky
      • CULTURAL and COMMUNITY INTERACTIONS
      • DELEGATES
      • ESSAYS & ESSAYISTS
      • BLOG Half the Sky
    • UNDOCUMENTED Difference in America Today
    • GUTFREUND CORNETT ART
    • SOUTH KOREA Woman Body Seoul and Gwangju 2012
    • MATRIXXMODULATION Jon Lodge
    • PLANNED PARENTHOOD A Celebration of Expression: An Evening of Wine, Women and Art
    • WOMEN DO IT! Traveling Postcard Exhibition >
      • WOMEN DO IT Gallery
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DELEGATES
​Half the Sky: Intersections in Social Practice Art Cultural Exchange and Exhibition China
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Alli Berman
Project Publicity Co-Director 
Project Catalog Photo Editor 
Abstract interactive artist 
Creator of PuzzleArt Therapy
Woodmere, New York
www.AlliBerman.com


“PathWays to Protection or Destruction — Please Choose Wisely” 
PathWays to Protection or Destruction — Please Choose Wisely is a performance-based photograph that is both a warning and a map for women to follow to safely “Hold Up Half the Sky.” It was based on a 700’ interactive in- stallation of suspended paths fabricated from astroturf, spandex, painted mylar and bubblewrap that filled a 50’ x 50’ x 36’ deep space. Berman photographed the instal- lation for more than nine months while running, leaping and ducking to simulate actions women must take in the world to protect themselves.
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Chan & Mann
chanandmann.com
Audrey Chan
Artist and writer
Lives in Los Angeles, California
UNABLE TO TRAVEL TO  CHINA
audreychan.net
Elana Mann
Artist
Lives in Los Angeles, California
elanamann.com


Still from Chan & Mann's New Fantasy (The Video)  
2013   
13 x 19 inches   
Pigment on paper 
It is vital to form bonds between women artists in the United States and China who are working for causes of equality, justice, and social change. The women involved in this exchange share strategies of social engagement, and social practice, which will enrich the dialogue and the artwork that each of them will produce in the future. Cultural exchange can be enormously powerful in adding another layer to the relationship between citizens and culture.              
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Sherri Cornett
Mixed media sculptor and video artist
Director of Half the Sky: Intersections in Social Practice Art
Chair of the International Caucus of the Women's Caucus for Art
Lives in Billings, Montana
http://www.sherricornett.com


"Ancestresses & Wise Women"
2014
36 inches x 36 inches
Photograph
My Ancestresses & Wise Women series of life-sized sculp- tures are symbolic representations of women who have mentored me. Within the circled sculptures, I facilitate conversations where women share experiences and perspectives and co-create deeper understanding of each other and themselves. My desire to build community and strengthen connections between otherwise diverse individuals has underpinned much of my work as an artist and advocate, including Half the Sky: Intersections in Social Practice Art.
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Jing Deng
Project Co-Director 
Project Catalog Text Editor 
Project English Translator 
Painter
 jingdengart.net 
Lawrenceville, New Jersey
http://www.jingdengart.net
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Christine Giancola
Project Documentation Director
Photographer 
Adjunct Associate Professor 
Webster University 
Florissant, Missouri
http://www.christinegiancolaphotography.com


“Half the Sky” 
13 inches x19 inches  
Digital Print from a Film Scan 
I took this photograph in the Forbidden City eighteen years ago during the 4th U.N. World Conference on Women in Beijing China. For me as a photographer, this image has always represented the beauty, potential, hope, and future of China. Today, I envision these little girls as grown women, strong and empowered with children of their own. It is now their turn to hold up Half of the Sky. I am committed today, as I was then, to wom- en’s issues and to the importance of cultural understand- ing and exchange among all people of the world. I am honored to have been given this opportunity to return to China as a delegate and artist.                                  
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Kay Kang
Project De-installation Coordinator 
Painter, print maker and mixed-media artist 
http://www.artspan.org/artist/kaykang


“Junwhan"
By coming together and sharing our experiences through conversation, we can learn from each other and hopefully inspire each other. I am convinced that Chinese culture has many commonalities with Korean culture, especially preferring to have son over daughter, so I am looking forward to interacting with Chinese woman artists. My works like “It’s A girl!!” and “Jungwhan(For The Girls)” are tribute to many women who were given male names at birth by their families, in hope that their mothers would bear sons instead of daughters in the future.                         
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Mido Lee
Project Assistant to the Director 
Project EssayTranslator 
Project Catalog Text Editor 
Photographer, video artist and installation artist  
San Francisco, Califiornia
http://midolee.com


“My Little, Little Wish"
Each is 2.8” square  
I still remember 19th June 2006. That was the day I lost my son; that was the day that I realized there was no such thing called choice. 
Everything in the scene was eerie beautiful. The weather was nice, and the clouds floated in the blue sky. Even now I close my eyes, I can still see the swishing of cur- tains; and smell of white sheet.        
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Louder Than Words
www. louder-than-words.org
S. A. Bachman
Social practice artist
Partner with Neda Moridpour (also a delegate) in Louder Than Words
Senior Lecturer in Graduate Public Practice at Otis College of Art and Design
Lives in Los Angeles, California
www.sabachman.com
www.agitart.org 
UNABLE TO TRAVEL TO CHINA
Neda Moridpour
Social practice artist 
Partner with S. A. Bachman (also a delegate) in Louder than Words
Iranian 
Lives  in Sherman Oaks, California
http://nedmorid.comwww. louder-than-words.org      
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Rosemary Meza-DesPlas
Artist, poet, writer, 
Art instructor at El Centro College
Installation Director for Half the Sky: Intersections in Social Practice Art
Lives in Dallas, Texas
http://www.rosemarymeza.com


“Shoot at Blue Sky” 
Shoot at Blue Sky references a hunting phrase which aims to keep the hunters safe from friendly fire. The origins
of my imagery in this particular work lie in nostalgic television from the 1970s; the imagery is fast-forwarded into the 21st century to ultimately be regurgitated as images of complexity and cognitive-duality. In my world woman is not only holding up half of the sky but she is protecting her piece of the pie. The correlation between this phrase, ‘women hold up half the sky’, and my artwork lies in my depiction of the resilient, adaptable nature of women to survive under patriarchal-contrived socio-cultural conditions.        
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Katie Morton
Painter
Lives in Beijing, China
“The Bridge”
71cm x 80cm 
Oil on Canvas
Within The Bridge, two different views of the sky are reflected in the river—the salmon pink of the sunset, and the brilliant blue of the evening sky.  Having lived in China for the past three years, I find that much of what I do is alien to those around me, and vice versa. What brings us all together, however, is that despite the apparent difference between the salmon pink and the brilliant blue, we are all reflections of one sky on one body of water.         
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Sandra Mueller
Photographer
Events Director, Half the Sky: Intersections in Social Practice Art
Art Facilitator, BeARTrageous
Lives in Malibu, California
http://scwca.org/profile/sandra-mueller
http://www.beartrageous.com
"Tara Triumphant"
2013
24  inches x 28  inches
Archival Digital Print
"Half the Sky” suggests global efforts to end poverty, empower women and seed justice — work that would please Tara, a Buddhist "mother of liberation” goddess. Presented as a triptych, “Tara Triumphant” offers a female shadow that reaches skyward — yet, also exists on the horizontal plane of the earth where we live and work. Similarly, this WCA and Luxun Academy cultural exchange invites artists and public alike to reach high and connect wide while inspiring one another in known and to be discovered ways.
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Brenda Oelbaum
Artist
President, Women's Caucus for Art 2014-2016
Lives in Ann Arbor, Michigan
http://brendaoelbaum.me
“Falling Out All Over”
 4' x 6'
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As President of the Women’s Caucus for Art  and a delegate, I represent our organization. My art illustrates my passion in helping women feel empowered. Women worldwide feel pressured to conform to cultural standards that are physically, emotionally and spiritually confining.  My work shows my fearlessness in a culture that is fat phobic and obsessed with a very limiting definition of beauty; a definition that carries powerful symbolism of appropriate feminine behavior which truly sedates us. 
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Priscilla Otani
Mixed-media artist
Human Resources Director, Half the Sky: Intersections in Social Practice Art
President, Women's Caucus for Art 2012-2014
Lives in San Francisco, California
http://www.mrpotani.com
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Jill Waterhouse
Mentor and artist
Publicity Team Member
Lives in Minneapolis, Minnesota
http://www.thewarm.org/jill-waterhouse/


UNABLE TO TRAVEL TO CHINA
© 2011 Sherri Cornett
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    • SEAFORMS
    • SHELTERS
  • PROJECTS
    • TRANSFORMATIONS at Kirks for Kirks
    • UNITAS youth art and leadership
    • WHAT IS IT ABOUT MY MEMORY Community Engaged Installation >
      • MEMORY CARDS What Is It About My Memory
      • SOMAS What Is It About My Memory
      • EXHIBITIONS What Is It About My Memory
    • FOOD and CULTURE HUB East Helena
    • THE 2020 AWAKENING BILLINGS For Freedoms 2020 >
      • THE2020AWAKENING BILLINGS Robert Hall on Blood Quantum
      • THE2020AWAKENING BILLINGS Indigenous Voices Films and Filmmakers Panel
      • THE2020AWAKENING BILLINGS MMIP Community Gathering
      • THE2020AWAKENING BILLINGS REDRess Exhibit
      • THE2020AWAKENING BILLINGS Seeing Patterns Exhibition
      • THE2020AWAKENING BILLINGS Related Events
      • THE2020AWAKENING BILLINGS Partners and Presenters
    • FOR FREEDOMS Billings >
      • FOR FREEDOMS Billings 2018 Partners and Presenters
    • COMMUNITY GROVE
    • CONVERSATIONS AMONG WOMEN
    • FLOW Interactive Exhibition and Community Project >
      • EXHIBITION Flow
      • VOICES OF THE RIVER SYMPOSIUM Flow
      • MIXING OIL and WATER Film Night and Discussion Flow
      • WORDS ON WATER: POETRY AND JAZZ IN CONCERT Flow
      • LIVING IN HARMONY ON THE YELLOWSTONE Flow
      • YOUTH OUTREACH Flow
      • READING AREAS MSUBillings Library Flow
      • YELLOWSTONE RIVER CUMULATIVE EFFECTS ANALYSIS Flow
    • POINTS OF MANY CONNECTIONS
    • QUEST Guest Art Facilitator
    • ALTITUDE 3123 >
      • EVENTS Altitude 3123
  • CURATORIAL
    • CHINA Half the Sky: Intersections in Social Practice Art, Luxun Academy of Fine Arts, Shenyang 2014 >
      • ART & ARTISTS/CHINA Half the Sky
      • ART & ARTISTS/US Half the Sky
      • CULTURAL and COMMUNITY INTERACTIONS
      • DELEGATES
      • ESSAYS & ESSAYISTS
      • BLOG Half the Sky
    • UNDOCUMENTED Difference in America Today
    • GUTFREUND CORNETT ART
    • SOUTH KOREA Woman Body Seoul and Gwangju 2012
    • MATRIXXMODULATION Jon Lodge
    • PLANNED PARENTHOOD A Celebration of Expression: An Evening of Wine, Women and Art
    • WOMEN DO IT! Traveling Postcard Exhibition >
      • WOMEN DO IT Gallery
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