#InTheLoop | Queens College Streams Art Show With Greek-American Style
BY QEDC It's In Queens
Let’s hear it for Mom ─ and μητέρα, too!
Queens College’s Hellenic American Project is currently streaming “Life Giving Art: 9 Women Artists of the Diaspora.”
Available for free, this exhibition celebrates women who support and nurture others without being their biological mothers. The concept arose in response to the COVID-imposed shelter-in-place restrictions, and the art strives to inspire appreciation for human connection during this time of isolation.
It’s already accessible, but an online opening reception will take place on Friday, June 26, from 6 pm to 7:30 pm. Click here to register.
And as it’s presented by the Hellenic American Project, all the contributors have strong ties to Greece. Mixed media artist Eozen Agopian is part of the fun along with visual artist, architect, and interior designer Helen Daferera; mixed-media information artist Nicole Economides; sculptor and installation artist Eleni Giannopoulou; sculptor and ceramicist Morfy Gkikas; painter Despina Konstantinides; mixed media artist Despo Magoni; photographer Aphrodite Navab; and sculptor and painter Sophia Vari.
They contemplated the Greek Diaspora and their personal visions of motherhood when creating the pieces for this show.
Access is free via the Hellenic American Project website. Click here for the exhibition. Click here for the catalogue.
“Life Giving Art: 9 Women Artists of the Diaspora” is curated by Tiffany M. Apostolou, an art historian with expertise in the connections between Byzantine and Contemporary artistic practices.
Directed by Sociology Department faculty member Nicholas Alexiou, the Hellenic American Project documents and informs on Greek-American history via a research facility, archive, library, museum, and event space.
Images: Queens College