Remembering Joan Marie, Compassionate Capitol Region (California, USA)
The Charter for Compassion and Compassionate California lost a caring soul of compassion. Joan Marie passed June 22, 2021. She was beloved by countless groups, individuals, and organizations around the world. She leaves a legacy of peacebuilding, beloved community, and compassionate activism. Joan was dedicated to alleviating the suffering of others lives in the Compassionate Living and Dying initiative.
She founded the first General Congress of Women in 2020, comprised of 12 women leaders from across the state. Months before she passed, Joan hand-picked and lead this Congress in its first project, the Activism Through the Arts exhibit taking place at the Crocker Art Museum. The Congress of women leaders will continue in a collaborative leadership model to execute her vision for this event. Joan left many more legacies. One of which is the Peace Pole Gardens Project. Before she died, Joan was able to meet with
New Benton Exhibition Explores Work of Käthe Kollwitz, Who Used Art as Platform for Activism
This is the first solo exhibition of the artist s work at UConn since 2007
One of Kollwitz s characteristically stark etchings, this depicts workers mourning the German Communist Karl Liebknecht, who was murdered by state forces in 1919. (Käthe Kollwitz (1867-1945), Gedenkblatt für Karl Liebknecht [In Memoriam Karl Liebknecht] (1919), Etching, William Benton Museum of Art, The Walter Landauer Collection of Käthe Kollwitz.) Copy Link
The German artist Käthe Kollwitz (1867-1945) was a printmaker who used her art to advocate against social injustice, war, and inhumanity. Her name is among those taken by the feminist activist artists known as Guerrilla Girls to expose gender and ethnic bias and corruption in politics, the arts, and pop culture.
What does suffering look like? Is it a facial expression or a gesture, a moment or a condition?
German artist Käthe Kollwitz saw it in all its manifestations as a basic part of the human experience. It sparked her creative urge while her country lost two world wars, visiting her as heartache for mankind and grief closer to home.
A somber exhibition of her work by the William Benton Museum of Art at the University of Connecticut in Storrs puts suffering front and center. It also explores how she translated her compassion into action. Käthe Kollwitz: Activism Through Art is less about politics than its title implies. Though human misery is often political, the core of the show is not the posters and leaflets she made for progressive causes but universal scenes untethered to specific events.
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