WORKING WITH THE LIGHT - WOMEN OF VISION

In a true metaphor of feminist collaboration, sculptor Nancy Azara off ers her spirit of art, therapy, and women's healing as testimony to th e evolution of feminist culture, Like a blues chord that reaches way d own deep to hook a dangling piece of heart, she fosters a complicated aching in a world of colors and textures. In her work, art, relationsh ip, and therapy merge to evoke in women the unacknowledged in their li ves, to make them visible and to give them reflection. The more our ow n experience is kept invisible from others, the more it becomes inacce ssible to ourselves. The essence of women's art, therapy, and feminism is the migration across the boundaries of patriarchy and the transmig ration with each other. This enables a journey home by literally makin g these experiences visible through women's art work, passing along ou r foremothers' culture. This is an invitation to enter the bloodhut an d join the other women in the initiation of Azara's sculpture and her artmaking through a filter of feminist psychological theory centered i n affiliation, engagement, and connection to others. Women's journeys to art lie in living in the tension of opposites-the beautiful, the br utal-that defines them and speaks to our existential guilt and the ten sion of creating our lives.