As a starting point for the series Support Group, I interviewed a group of women artists in their 70’s and 80’s before diving in to explore questions around the ideas of support and sustenance.
What does it mean to operate outside of traditional support structures and resources? How do you build a career while creating your own scaffolding along the way? What are methodologies, inspirations, and activations for practicing support? This work takes form as a series of sculptures, drawings, and editioned flyers as prints.
The inaugural exhibition took place in 2018 and 2019 with the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust. Thanks to Jo-Anne Bates, Charlotte Ka, Junyetta Seale, Linda Wallen, and Kathleen Zimbicki, for sharing stories and insights from their lifelong artistic practices.
