The Sarah Doyle Center for Women and Gender

Sembrando Semillas: Priscilla Carrion
August 28 - October 5, 2018

Artist Statement

For these quilts I have been combining my printing, sewing, and recycling of old textiles to create new pieces. I used dyed projects, old clothes, and printed patterns of things like hair and nail clippings, and herbal plants, to process my thoughts on how the past influences and coexists with the future. In practicing rituals of remembrance holistically, I am also noticing what gets shed and what gets recycled into new stronger shapes and structures. I had been thinking about this in plants too and their systems of communication, change and growth. Western culture often expects change to happen quickly, and I want to remember to not give up when direct action doesn't create immediate results or when the change is slow. Through the process of stitching, I'm seeing the way sewing your own things and sowing seeds are related. This work has helped me to find ways to communicate with my lineage and remember my ancestors.

Horchata is a traditional Ecuadorian herbal tea drink -- a diverse blend of herbs and flowers appreciated for its therapeutic properties.

Priscilla Carrion is a textile artist living and working in Providence, RI. She is currently creating works on commission, working as a sample maker, quilter, and sewing for actors, artists and dress makers in the theater world. While also working on community based art projects whenever possible, she is developing a practice and new designs in a collective textile studio space called WARP in Olneyville, RI.

REVERBERATIONS: Lois Harada
October 10 - November 16, 2018

REVERBERATIONS
1. prolongation of a sound; resonance.
2. a continuing effect; a repercussion.

REVERBERATIONS is a response to the Senate hearing of Christine Blasey Ford and Brett Kavanaugh that took place on September 27, 2018. The prints in the exhibition are hung in multiple, emphasizing the names of those represented. The work is meant to prolong the discourse started by the hearing, keeping the names of those involved in our minds for longer than today’s expedited news cycle.

The walls are meant to talk to viewers, reminiscent of the parlor in Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451 where the protagonist’s walls are covered in full television screens. What does it mean to be constantly surrounded by outside voices? By news or social media? REVERBERATIONS is an invitation to take pause, to reflect and to remember.

Lois Harada is an artist and printmaker based in Providence, Rhode Island. Her work often starts with historical sources that she connects to current situations, encouraging viewers to revisit forgotten pieces of our past. She approaches fine art printmaking from a commercial sensibility, creating works that are meant to be consumed by a wide audience. Her work has been exhibited across the country and internationally.

Lois works at DWRI Letterpress, a commercial letterpress print shop in Providence, and she utilizes those historical techniques to create her printed editions. She also serves as on the Board of Directors at New Urban Arts, a local nonprofit that ensures free,after school art programming for high school age students.

Racism or Gluten: Why Do I Feel This Way?
Lo Smith
February 25 - April 5, 2019

Racism or Gluten: Why Do I Feel This Way? was an exploration of how we’ve become who we are. The featured works addressed themes of struggling to process and compartmentalize how we feel what we feel, including how our lived experiences shape who we are as individuals.