Event Host: Columbus Museum of Art (CMA)
Short Description: The national observance of Equal Pay Day recognizes the wage gap between working women and men, and offers remedies to address pay inequity. CMA and Women’s Fund of Central Ohio are partnering to present #wageart, Equal Pay Day, a day-long event to make the gender income gap more visible and to position the role of art in generating awareness.
The national observance of Equal Pay Day recognizes the wage gap between working women and men, and offers remedies to address pay inequity. Columbus Museum of Art (CMA) and Women’s Fund of Central Ohio are partnering to present #wageart, Equal Pay Day, a day-long event to make the gender income gap more visible and to position the role of art in generating awareness.
Highlights include:
10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
gallery activities and creative interventions, plus screenings of talks and videos
5-6 p.m.
a cash bar reception hosted by Art Network
6 p.m.
panel discussion with CMA's Executive Director Nannette Maciejunes, Women's Fund of Central Ohio Director Nichole Dunn, Artist/Entrepreneur Keturah A. Bobo and Jennifer Schleuter, The Ohio State University Department of Theatre Associate Professor and Joint Artistic Director of the for/word company. The panel will be moderated by Deborah Aubert Thomas, Philanthropy Ohio Vice President, Programs & Learning.
Collaborators and performers include:
Disparity/Disruption by Jennifer Schlueter and her team of Ohio State women writers and performers. This is a series of scripted and improvisational performances and performance art.
the fives by Alexandra Davis (BA, Theatre). Less than 5% of art held in museums worldwide is by women. In this piece, Davis uses 5% of the floorspace in the CMA’s Derby Court to create work that speaks to this disparity.
Ecstatic Viewer by Jackie Hedeman (MFA, Creative Writing). Anchored to Alison Saar’s Nocturne Navigator, Hedeman asks: what does it mean to love a piece of art that is not for you?
Disreguard by Amanda Loch (BA, Theatre). Asking “what kind of society do we agree to live in when we are conditioned to ignore systems of power?”, Loch will serve as a gallery associate, monitoring the room in which Artemesia Gentileschi’s Bathsheba hangs in the CMA.
Unheard and Unseen by Karie Miller (PhD, Theatre). On the second floor of the CMA, a docent has gone rogue.
Is There No Truth In Beauty by Molly Olguín (MFA, Creative Writing). An alternative audio tour of work by women in the CMA, this Guide by Cell experience wrestles with the author’s and the viewer’s tastes.
Wait Til You See Eleanor Davis by Samantha Tucker Iacovetto (MFA, Creative Writing). Eleanor Davis’s work was right here. Wasn’t it?
A Matter of Perspective: The Life of Artemesia Gentileschi by Tyrrell Woolbert (PhD, Theatre). Artemesia’s father hired Agostino Tassi to teach her “perspective.” Whose have we accepted, though, as we have chronicled her life?
with an installation from Joshua Quinlan (MFA, Scene Design) in the main lobby of the CMA.
Please note: Museum admission for the day will be adjusted for gender income inequality, $10.78 for adult admission for women, and evening admission is donation based, benefiting The Women’s Fund of Central Ohio. All are welcome. Registration is available for this event, but no registration is required for attendance. Join the conversation online with #wageart.
Sponsored by Sequent and Barnes & Thornburg LLP. Promotional Partner: Dispatch Media Group. Program Partners: The Ohio State University Department of Theatre and CAW: Creative Arts of Women.
