Women Picturing Revolution

04/13/2024

Rest in power to one of the greatest, Faith Ringgold. Her legacy and impact on Black women artists is beyond compare. Honored to live in her lifetime and see her work first hand.

03/09/2024

We recognize that celebrating women should happen yesterday, today, this month and everyday. It is the crux of our work.

We are beyond proud and grateful to be a part of a community of women photographers who believe this too.

One of them is . Huge shout out to our dear friend, who’s show, “White Shoes,” is in view now at . We had the pleasure of Nona joining us as a guest artist during our 2017 workshop at Columbia University, and were honored to have her work in our book. Click the link in our bio to read the article about her show.

02/21/2024

Congratulations to all involved!

Shining Lights features the work of groundbreaking Black, UK-based female photographers from the 1980s and 90s, including the experimental use of photomontage, self-portraiture and staged imagery

01/05/2024

Thrilled to find that our volume was recently reviewed in the Woman's Art Journal. The Woman’s Art Journal has published exemplary feminist art-historical scholarship since 1980.

Black Matrilineage, Photography, and Representation: Another Way of Knowing Edited by Lesly Deschler Canossi and Zoraida Lopez-Diago, Leuven University Press / Cornell University Press, 2023.

We will be sharing a full review link with contributors in the coming days.
https://womansartjournal.org/ Women Picturing Revolution

12/09/2023

Now (finally) some good news! wowowowow! head on over to for more information of these extraordinary opportunities and more 💫📸

10/13/2023

We’re so excited! Upstate

09/20/2023

Hi there! Zoraida here with more images that intersect with the environment for Climate Week! I’ve been such a fan of for years and had the absolute pleasure of working with her when and I co-curated the exhibition, “Picturing Black Girlhood” at . Her thought-provoking work delves into the intricate connections between land, memory, and history. “My work explores the relationship of the natural world to memory, personal and cultural," Jack says, who through her work, tells powerful narratives about the environment, people, and place. Deborah invites us to ponder how nature herself becomes a memorial, while examining the sorted histories that have shaped our world. Visit her insta page to check out her work and reflect on our connection to the planet this Climate Week! 📸Image 1-3: Girl in bloom, from the series what is the value of water if it quenches our thirst . . . , 2016, color photograph. Image 4: Still from Deborah Jack, . . . our states of emergence see us looking for an inner shore to meet the coming surge and then . . ., 2017, digital video. Image 5: Still from Deborah Jack, Drawn by water: (Sea)drawings in (3) acts, Act One: Wait(Weight) on the Water, 2018, digital video.

09/20/2023

“All that you touch / You Change. / All that you Change / Changes you. / The only lasting truth / Is Change.”
You can’t talk about artists who confront climate change in their work without mentioning Octavia Butler.

The story of one of her most acclaimed novels, Parable of the Sower, published in 1993, takes place in a familiar timeline for our generation: 2024. Sower also reached the New York Times bestseller list at the height of the pandemic on September 2, 2020, a full 27 years after its publication and is Butler’s full turn toward climate change and its implications.

Scroll and check out collage zine workshop on Parable of the Sower. Founder Ola Ronke is “calling all hands on deck for a sweet sunny Sunday at The Free Black Women’s Library where she will be tending to their backyard garden all afternoon.

All are welcome to join between 2pm and 5pm for some seed collecting, harvesting, weeding and so on.

She will also host a Farmers Market featuring the Brooklyn Packers, a Black Farmers CSA. They will be coming through with the fresh produce, come shop, eat, plant, rest, repeat…. Visit her insta page to learn more!

09/18/2023

Hey beautiful people! Zoraida here from WPR. As many of you know, outside of my artistic endeavors, I work in environmental activism, food security, and land protection. Today marks the first day of Climate Week NYC, one of the key gatherings focused on climate action that brings together leaders and activists from across the globe focused on climate change. Throughout the week, I’ll be posting about my favorite artists and activists who address the impacts of climate change (and the history, political environment that has shaped our crisis) and/or incorporate elements of nature in their work. First up is . Sheida Soleimani is an Iranian-American federally licensed bird rehabilitator and artist. Her home and studio in Providence, R.I., also functions as a wildlife clinic. Soleimani’s work explores intersections of art and activism, melding sculpture, performance, film and photography to highlight critical perspectives on events across the Middle East, unpicking the complex power dynamics between the region and western nations. Soleimani’s work interrogates the dissemination of information in digital contexts, adapting found images from press and social media leaks to exist within alternative scenarios. Image title: What a Revolutionary Must Know, installation view, Providence College Galleries, 2022. Archival pigment print. 40″ x 30″. Commissioned by Providence College Galleries. Visit her Insta page to learn more about her powerful work.

08/24/2023

We are bursting with joy to see , who we had the honor of including in our book, and who co-wrote the forward for our book coming together for Beyond Granite:Pulling Together, an exhibition now on view at . Congratulations to co-curators and for reclaiming space and unearthing histories at the in their show “Beyond Granite.” They poured their hearts and souls into curating this extraordinary show, and the impact has been nothing short of remarkable. ❤️ Their vision and dedication have transformed this space into a sanctuary of healing and joy. Our heart were bursting over the weekend as we saw images (via social) of 👏🏽 work and activation of place 🙌🏽. Excited to delve more into this show. 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽 for showing art’s power to connect, inspire, and heal. (First two images via ‘s instagram, third image )

07/04/2023

Pow, Bam, BOOM! We are so here for this. From ‘s article on “It’s Cox’s work on Black motherhood that proven particularly enduring, yet her children were often perceived as a roadblock to her career. When she attended the Whitney Independent Study Program after receiving her MFA from SVA in 1992, she was pregnant. It was the first time the program had had a pregnant student, according to Cox.

“The people there were like, ‘You’re pregnant? Oh, my God, what are you going to do?'” said Cox. “And I’m like, ‘Wait, is there like some like 15-year-old here who got knocked up? No, this is my second child, I have a husband, we planned this.'” Wild right?! We are so honored to have Renee in our book and include this story in our intro. Read about this and so much more in the intro to our book “Black Matrilineage, Photography, and Representation: Another Way of Knowing.” Link in bio to learn more 👆🏽

05/26/2023

Like so many people, we have been thinking a lot about Tina Turner. She was a trailblazer beyond compare. When she wrote I, Tina, in 1986, no one was publicly talking about domestic violence, much less celebrities. With her brutal honesty, Tina broke everything wide open and gave other women the courage to speak out. We cannot imagine the courage it took for her to do this, in the 1980s, during the Regan era, when Black women were labeled welfare queens, and a few years before Anita Hill’s testimony. Her legacy is so damn deep. Where we would be without her. She pictured a revolution, and made one happen.