Hey eveeyone, we need to spread the word about the opening in the same way we got people to participate.. at a grassroots level. If all of you would help us out by sending this to papers, television, magazines, celebrities (oprah?), and all of your friends, we would get a whole lot of people there to see these awesome towers about our lives. Even if you can send it to 5 people, it would be so appreciated! Thanks! Lorri
Women with Wings We Dream. We Fly. We Are.
A MONUMENTAL SCULPTURAL EVENT
Join us for the unveiling of the Women with Wings Sculptures. Experience the art born from the stories of 400 local women and nationally recognized sculptor Lorri Acott-Fowler
Tuesday, June 19, 2007 6:30 - 9:00 pm Clara Hatton Gallery CSU Visual Arts Building
- Refreshments Provided -
The Women with Wings project is an art installation composed of sculpted winged women on totem-like fired clay towers. The towers are built collaboratively, with women embedding symbols into the towers that represent important aspects of their lives. Over 400 women participated resulting in 30 towers filled with the symbols or their lives, each topped with a beautiful winged woman. The winged women were designed and sculpted by Fort Collins's nationally renowned artist, Lorri Acott-Fowler.
During the exhibition, the towers will be sold through a silent auction to pay expenses from the pilot project, raise money to publish a book and video of stories and images from the project and to make way to provide a launching point to take this project to communities nationally and internationally.
The Women with Wings art project is a collaborative and unique effort that brings together women; diverse in terms of age, ethnicity and race, sexual orientation, religion, and physical ability from the local community in an unprecedented way. Over 400 women participated in the creation of 30 totem-like fired clay towers that tell the stories of significant moments and events in their lives. Women impress images, symbols, and words into the clay in order to tell their stories and create a lasting document of and tribute to their dreams, experiences, losses, successes and lives. Nationally recognized, artist Lorri Acott-Fowler sculpted winged women to place atop each tower. Lorri's vision for women "We dream. We fly. We are." guides this aspect of the process as a tribute to women.
Professional and local photographer, Ronda Stone,photographed each session while Cindy Griffin, author, writer and Professor at Colorado State University, recorded the stories women told as they document their lives in the clay. A published book that combines the images and the text to describe the project, shares the powerful stories of the women, and pays tribute to the women in the community. Kira Friedman, professional photographer and videographer, captured the heart of the experience on video while Lorri and co-director Nan Larsen lead the activities. The project is about women's strength, courage, and wisdom. It celebrates the fact that women have played a role in a community and that they have a story to be told; who they have been and what they have done, and that each of us has a beautiful voice that needs to he heard, valued, and celebrated.
After the Fort Collins pilot project is completed, these women will take the Women with Wings project to communities around the US and globally. Women throughout the world have rich stories of love, laugher, struggles and hope. As they tell them they remember the value in their own lives, and as we listen, we remember how connected each of us is to another and the ways in which our stories overlap. Years from now people can touch and point to the stories and impressions of their great-great grandmothers, aunts, nieces, daughters and their friends, and then, after the world wide project is complete, the impressions left by women from other communities, and other nations.
To help or find out more go to www.womenwithwingsproject.org
DIRECTIONS: From 1-25 take Prospect west past College Avenue Turn right on Whitcomb, and straight into lot 505 No permit required
