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https://www.facebook.com/events/1580447131972692/

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Sophie Isaak shares thoughts about her print, now on display at Near Future.

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Shelley Buffalo shares her new t-shirt design for Indigenous Iowa at PS1′s Print Organize Protest event on 2/3/17

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Valentines from Bluestocking Feminist Art Collective’s Valentines for Politicians event on Feb. 5!

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NASTY WOMEN IN IOWA

NEAR FUTURE, 323 E. Market St, Iowa City, IA

OPEN: Friday, Feb 17, 10AM - 4PM + Saturday, Feb 18, 10AM - 4PM

RECEPTION: Saturday Feb 18, 4 - 6PM

Join us for a two-day pop-up exhibition, NASTY WOMEN IN IOWA, the Iowa edition of the NASTY WOMEN exhibition series, created in collaboration with the eponymous New York City-based collective in response to the recent presidential inauguration. NASTY WOMEN IN IOWA will feature over 100 works of art by a large group of local and national artists who have come together to support HUMAN RIGHTS!

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Rachel Kauff talks about her contribution to the Near Future exhibition.

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Jen P. Harris talks about her contribution to the Near Future exhibition

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Linden Ramsey visits Near Future and shares a song called “Stay Low”

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Kristina Joy Fetters, 1996 (silkscreen, 2013, by Matthew Steele) Kristina died in the care of the State of Iowa following late discovery of breast cancer. She was the youngest woman in Iowa history to receive a life sentence with no parole. How can remembering Kristina’s story help Iowa improve its criminal justice system? #nearnews video to follow

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Near News Field Reports - Women’s March in Des Moines, IA

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SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

In the spirit of resistance, this is a call for art to be exhibited as part of a NASTY WOMEN in IOWA!

If you are a NASTY WOMAN*, you are invited to submit up to three small works (maximum dimensions 10x10 inches). Works can be in any media but should be ready to hang/easily hangable.

All works must be available for sale and priced from $15-100. The organizers can help you to determine a price if you are unsure. We want to keep the prices very affordable so that many people in attendance feel they are able to purchase one or multiple pieces in support of this cause.

To submit work, fill out this submission form. The deadline for submissions is February 1, 2017.

*We welcome anyone who identifies with being a Nasty Woman: artists of all ages, races, religions, sexual orientations, gender or non-gender identifications, economic backgrounds, immigrants and non-immigrants…We want this exhibition to include a spectacularly diverse rainbow of Nasty Women so please spread the word!

DELIVERY OF WORK

If you are delivering work in-person:

Drop off original works on Wednesday, February 15, from 12-8pm

Drop-off location: NEAR FUTURE / 323 E. Market Street, Iowa City, IA

If you are delivering work by mail:

If you are unable to drop-off work please send it by mail, postmarked by February 10.

Mailing address:

NASTY WOMEN ℅ Heidi Wiren Bartlett

807 Dearborn Street

Iowa City, IA 52240

Please email us at nastywomenic@gmail.com for details.

QUESTIONS?

Contact us at nastywomenic@gmail.com

ABOUT NEAR FUTURE

Near Future (a project of Public Space One) is an exhibition space for artists to speculate on and question the future, with the goal of connecting artists to resources, artists to artists, and artists to other citizens in local action to learn and energize for creative action in the near future, this time between “precedents.” The exhibition kicks off with a grand opening event January 20th from 10a-4p and runs seven weeks (through March 3).

323 E. Market Street, Iowa City, IA

MEET THE ORGANIZERS

Nasty Women IOWA

Jen P. Harris is an artist, educator, and designer. Her recent hand-painted modular works on paper and wood include a fractured reimagining of pre-colonial Midwestern landscape; a 19-part painting about information technology, resurrection, and the Ouroboros; and a 6-foot hexagonal wall labyrinth infiltrated by military surveillance drones. She graduated from Yale with a BA in Art and received her MFA from Queens College CUNY in 2008. Since then, her work has been presented throughout the US and she has received numerous awards, fellowships, and residencies, notably a Painting Fellowship from the New York Foundation for the Arts. Jen currently lives in Iowa City and works all over the map.

Heidi Wiren Bartlett is an interdisciplinary artist and designer from the Great Plains. Her current practice is concerned with the portrayal, oppression and subversive existence of women in America today. As a white woman raised by a lesbian in Nebraska, she feels obligated to confront racial and misogynistic injustice. She creates objects, installations, ritual performances, videos, and collaborative works. Heidi received her BFA from Concordia University and her MA & MFA in Intermedia and Sculpture from the University of Iowa. Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally including the Bemis Center for Contemporary Art in Omaha, NE and Grace Exhibition Space in Brooklyn, NY. She currently lives and works in Iowa City, IA.

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Kalmia Strong is a bookmaker, educator, and arts organizer based in Iowa City. She engages the slipperiness of language, the idea of sincerity, and the creation of resistant spaces through artist’s books, installations, and social projects. Kalmia is the program director at Public Space One, where she works to instigate and support experimental, cooperative, and community-based art practices and resources. She regularly teaches print and bookmaking workshops for all ages, is an adjunct instructor at the University of Iowa Center for the Book, and serves as book arts editor for the art and literary journal Prompt Press.

Hannah Givler

John Engelbrecht is Director of Public Space ONE (PS1), an alternative arts space in Iowa City, IA. Countless local, national, and international exhibitions have happened in his tenure at PS1 along with a nearly daily program of performances, workshops, residencies and other (if succinctly-indescribable) events. His background in photography informs an everyday art practice which looks with interest and inquiry towards the social, performative, and ephemeral using text and image. Personal website: memoryintomyth.com. 

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One of the first Near News interviews on J20

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