Women Are Human Art Project
with Patsy Ferrell
SIX PLUS ONE. An artist paints six women's stories as one organic whole. As the seven stories blend with each brush stroke — the whole becomes greater than the individual parts.
Patsy’s painting embeds stories of women pioneers in the struggle for human equality
“My aim is for the viewer to imagine positive ways of working in partnership with people of every gender, culture and experience to mend the broken parts of our world.”
Women Are Human
"Women must see themselves with new eyes."
~ Simone de Beauvoir
Women Are Human provides a powerful perspective to see women as human beings with human rights, able to exist and live in their own right -- with 'new eyes' to envision a world free from the normalization of violence against women and girls.
EMPOWER YOURSELF
WH is an art project that is organized by volunteers committed to the Peace Literacy Foundation's mission to offer experiential peace education and cultural healing through the arts.
WH creates fine art, educational presentations and practical resources appropriate for a variety of settings such as public libraries, YWCA's, schools and community organizations.
cultural healing through Integrative collage
WH is the brainchild of painter and retired trauma therapist Patsy Ferrell. Her painting, Les femmes sont humaines (first in a series) serves as an avatar for its work.
Ferrell's signature Integrative Collage (IC) painting style embeds the narratives of six women in history she brings to life through her brush. A bold color palette breaks through the barrier of invisibility often experienced by women in male-dominated institutions and culture.
WHAT WH OFFERS
Powerful story-telling through original art. Engaging presentations. Innovative educational resources.
Donor support makes it possible to provide free educational resources including:
WH "With New Eye's" Story/Action Card Sets;
WH Educational Panel Exhibit for libraries, schools and community settings.
WH free/low cost presentations for organizations with limited budgets.
PUBLIC LIBRARY exhibit PROGRAM
WH is establishing a program to exhibit museum-quality reproductions of Les femmes sont humaines and traveling panel exhibits in public libraries and other educational settings.
During the month of September, 2019, the WH Traveling Exhibit was installed at the Dayton Metro Library. A local Book Discussion Group explored the stories of the women featured in the painting.
WH On the Road
WH is ready to come to your community with a presentation or to help organize an exhibit. Complete the contact form online to get more info or email us at: [email protected].
Patsy Ferrell in her studio, Tubac, Arizona
“The normalization of violence against women within institutions is a kind of background wallpaper in the realm of their existence.”
Be a WH Art Patron
WH RECOGNIZES SUPPORTERS:
Dr. John Lyman
Sr. Andrea Koverman & Sisters of Charity, Cincinnati
Kurt Jacobsen, CPA
including a “Special Tribute to Barb.”
Dramatic Monologue by Patsy Ferrell (click below):
The Women Are Human Art Project captures the eye of Oprah on a zoom call on Global Wellness Day (Patsy Ferrell and her Ida B. Wells collage appear in upper left of photo)