
Six Women: Six Perspectives Opens at Holy Family University
Running Dates: 10/6/08-10/29/08 Opening:
Monday October 13, 2008 at 6 p.m.- Location:
Holy Family University Gallery
Lower Level John M. Perzel Education Technology Center
9801 Frankford Avenue Philadelphia, PA 215-637-7700
Six Women: Six Perspectives features work by six women:
Jane Craven, Kathy Dobash, Bonnie MacAllister, Meredith McDonald,
Sonia Sherrod, and Michelle Wilson.
Jane Craven is a graduate of the sculpture MFA program at the University of the Arts.
She holds a BFA and teacher certification from Moore College of Art. Her two and three-dimensional
work is compelling. She most recently installed “Sculptoure”: a site-specific installation in Long
Branch, New Jersey. Craven will show mixed media, clay, and plaster work at Holy Family.
Kathy Dobash is a Luzerne County artist and an art educator. She has been an artist her whole life.
Kathy is known as the artist-in-residence in the historic Markle Building. Renovating a century
old ceiling in this building has inspired Kathy to create a new series of work. Dobash brings
mixed media and oil pastel work to this exhibition.
Bonnie MacAllister is an artist, author, and educator. She has most recently exhibited
at the Utopian Library in Viareggio, Italy and in la GalerĂa del MEC, Montevideo, Uruguay
(along with Michelle Wilson). She is currently exhibiting with the Women’s Caucus for Art
DC Chapter in Tacoma Park, MD. Her work for this exhibition explores Catholicism and
identity through a feminist lens.
Meredith McDonald holds a Master in Teaching Visual Arts from the University of the Arts
and has studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Arts. She is a 2008
recipient of the Leeway Foundation Art and Change Grant which funds women in the
arts in Philadelphia. An accomplished artist, Meredith brings intriguing new oil
work to Holy Family University.
Sonia Sherrod describes her craft, “As an assemblage artist, I try to re-create
beauty or relativity out of the discarded, broken, and abandoned found objects
juxtaposed with my own original 2-d art, old photographs, and words.
These constructions explore the relativeness of color, shadows, and shape as
well as compartmentalizing thematic associations of still-life, portrait,
and landscape....empty, full, crowded and sparse, revealing and withholding
within a narrative context.” She has exhibited widely including Festival of the Masters
in Orlando, Florida and the Manchester National Juried Fine
Art Exhibition in Richmond VA. Sherrod will exhibit new assemblages in
“Six Women: Six Perspectives..
Michelle Wilson is the creator of Rocinante Press and the Migratory Books Project.
Michelle describes her art forms, “In my work, I seek to reveal the stories of unseen
connections and unconsidered issues that are connected to the experience
of the human condition. Through the use of intersecting narratives that become
reflective metaphors for each other, I examine political, historical and ecological links.”
Her work is widely collected and exhibited in the United States and abroad.
In this exhibition, Wilson will show lithograph inclusion in handmade cotton/abaca paper.