Photos capturing the Women’s History Month Charity Art Show, don by UF’s Women’s Student Association. The disposable event featured a?hygiene product collection drive for PACE Alachua, an institution providing?therapy and small-class instruction to at-risk women. The organization held?closing ceremonies Wednesday during the J. Wayne Reitz Union in room 2355 at
Sarah Cantor, a graphic design major, talks with friends for the meaning behind her work. “Art carries your emotion and feelings,” Cantor said. “Art shows women what you may think of as valid with your work has meaning.” Cantor, 19, presented?two set?of art with the event, which juxtaposed women’s issues of consent and emotional security. (Kathryn Farr/WUFT News)
Indira Bustamante, Women’s Student Association program event director, stands looking at her art contribution to the event. “It originally started just as one ink medium, but I tore it up because I didn’t as it,” Bustamante, 21, said. She then transformed it in a piece that speaks with the sexualization of ladies in society.
Eugenia Blaubach, 20, took images of her photographed work in the Women’s March in Gainesville. She captioned it “I’m tired mommy. Me too honey, that is why we’re here.” In the 2015 World Press Photo study, researchers learned that women were lower the probability that to earn an income by large media companies (7%) in comparison to men (22%). ?Events such as the art show are designed to show little girls that must be straight away to advocate for equality, Bustamante said. (Kathryn Farr/WUFT News)
Students attended the presentation from 7-8 p.m. The Women’s Student Association has hosted events throughout Women’s History Month and has been collecting hygiene products for PACE Alachua. ?PACE is usually a school funded because of the Florida Department of Juvenile Justice as well as the Alachua County School Board who specializes in intervention, prevention and diversion for girls ages 11-18. “We’ve almost doubled in proportion and we’re really aiming to have got a clinic for all our girls to acquire basic medical,” PACE Development Manager Becker Holland said. They accept outside funding and are also accommodating grow their center to support girls in Alachua County. (Kathryn Farr/WUFT News)
Britney Jenkins, 22, and Tessa Arthur, 22, look at Jenkins’s three-piece art display. “I really love abstract expressionism, so option inspiration,” Jenkins said. Being an advertising major having a concentration in art, Jenkins said she enjoys expressing her energy through her art. (Kathryn Farr/WUFT News)
“I don’t get this blog,” Aimee Leigh Monek, a UF pre-vet senior, asked her friend Alexis Ludovici, a UF advertising junior. “It’s art, you aren’t likely to understand,” Ludovici responded researching through Marialejandra Gomez-Delgado’s nursery book art. The skill pieces varied in mediums from graphic design, graphite and ink. (Kathryn Farr/WUFT News)
The aim of the wedding were to celebrate women artists, Bustamante said. In the month, UF Women’s Student Association has hosted events to encourage women to mention issues they face and how to create change for the future. (Kathryn Farr/WUFT News)
Sharod Farmer, a freshman computer major, dissects the mediums helpful to create Kayla Truxton’s black and white tree landscape. “I like non colored documents, but it makes me wonder which ink or charcoal she used for this,” Farmer said. (Kathryn Farr/WUFT News)
About 25 people attended the event and discussed madness of every art piece. There initially were coasters with quotes from women’s rights figures like Benazir Bhutto, the initial democratically elected female leader of Pakistan, which read: “Equal rights are usually not defined only by political value.” (Kathryn Farr/WUFT News)
