Moorhead to host Red River Women’s Studies Conference

Moorhead to host Red River Women's Studies Conference

Friday, March 27 | 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. | Comstock Memorial Union

Minnesota State Moorhead is hosting the Red River Women's Studies Conference on Friday, March 27, from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. in the university's Comstock Memorial Union ballroom.

The conference, with the theme Unfinished Revolutions: Feminism, Art, and the Legacies of Resistance, brings together scholars, artists, activists, educators, and community members to explore feminist thought and practice. The conference highlights how historical struggles inform contemporary movements while also asking critical questions about whose voices have been amplified, whose have been marginalized, and what work remains undone.

Featured artists are Rachel Breen, Anna Johnson, Sandra Menefee Taylor, and Delia Touché.

Rachel Breen is a visual artist who explores the critical possibilities of the sewing machine, which she uses to draw and create sculptural installations. Her accomplishments include a solo exhibition at the Minneapolis Institute of Art, a Fulbright Fellowship to India, the McKnight Fellowship for Visual Artists, and the Jerome Hill Artist Fellowship.

Anna Johnson seeks to bridge the gap between the world she lives in and the culture she came from. She incorporates traditional designs from her Chippewa culture, working with a variety of media but concentrating on drawing and printmaking.

Sandra Menefee Taylor's career spans community-oriented public art projects, studio practice, book arts, and multidisciplinary collaborations with other artists. Her work has been exhibited and collected nationally, including the Weisman Art Museum, the Walker Art Center, the Plains Art Museum, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and Grinnell College.

Delia Touché is a Sisseton Wahpeton Dakota and Assiniboine printmaker, bookmaker, and fiber artist based in the Midwest. They have been exhibited nationally and internationally at venues including Travemeise (Lübeck, Germany), San Francisco Center of the Book, Missoula Art Museum, The Art Galleries at Austin Community College, Die Graphische (Vienna, Austria), among others. Delia is also a Minnesota State Moorhead alum (BFA in Drawing).

General public tickets are $35. Student tickets (13-College) are free. For full bios and information on the event, visit https://www.mnstate.edu/academics/majors/women-studies/red-river-womens-studies-conference.