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Martha Quiroga

Martha Quiroga Artist Reception: Pockets and Women's Rights

Martha Quiroga Artist Reception: Pockets and Women's Rights

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Snacks and light refreshments will be provided.

This is a free event. Registration is not required.

Join us for our Artist Reception, featuring the work of local artist, Martha Albert Quiroga.

Martha Quiroga, BFA Eastern Michigan University

From Martha: I mess around in all sorts of media…

Back when I was in art school, we reveled in the new drive for Women’s Rights in the United States. I played sports and achieving Title Nine meant (a little too late) that women had the right to play sports in the school setting. (It took longer than my school tenure to actually start seeing a difference). 

I felt like I fought so much of my life for women to have the right to play sports, compete with men for equality in the workplace and for control of their own F___ing bodies. 

Pockets are an important part in the history of women being in charge of our lives. It seems so small but when you have pockets, you have control over whether you have to carry a purse. Whether you can walk around work with just your phone and not a lot of papers. Whether you can carry your money in your pocket. Whether you can carry your property in the pockets of your tights! You don’t have to put up with little non-usable pockets in your jeans or trousers or worse yet, FAKE pockets!

This collection is an ode to many women who need and want pockets! Pockets mean a woman has rights! My collection is meant to be whimsical and multimedia. You will notice some dark pieces that have color poking through but without pockets. These are me weeping from the loss of women’s rights in the past couple of years. Will they take our pockets next?

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