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Mana Fine Arts Exhibition Space, 227 Coles Street, Jersey City, NJ 07310 (800) 330-9659Wonder Women III are Pollie Barden, Jennifer Carpenter, Gwen Charles, Tamara Fitzpatrick, Maya Joseph-Goteiner, Mary Jeys, Melissa Macalpin, Gina Riano, Amanda Thackray, and Sarah Nelson Wright

Mana Fine Arts is pleased to host WWIII: A Wonder Women Project presented by _gaia. The residency invited artists to participate in a program to engage in discussion about their work, the cultural climate, the history of art, war, feminism, and social change. WWIII was interested in creating a dialogue and artwork that explores the issues of war and protest in the modern age. Weekly discussions addressed issues related to feminism, gender, war, and protest as they relate to art practice. Each participant was encouraged to bring as much as possible to the group, including readings, artist heroes, activist heroes, feminist heroes, ideas, etc. As the projects came into focus, it became clear that we are living in a state of misunderstanding of what it means to live with war.

The show brings together ten emerging artists from the New York/New Jersey area, invited to participate in the six-week residency at _gaia studio in Hoboken, New Jersey. The exhibition aims to examine questions that arise from a need to process our current relationship to war. Are we in the throes of a third world war? What would another world war look like? How would an escalation in the current War on Terror affect our lives and those of the people of this planet? What, if anything, have we learned from our violent histories? How can we reflect our fears, concerns and protests through our artwork and activism? WWIII became a collective journey, to determine our level of knowledge of a world at war, as well as to set a new standard of living with compassion and awareness.

WWIII coincides with the Feminist Art Project. The purpose of the Feminist Art Project is to bring public attention to the significant and continuing impact of women and their art on all aspects of contemporary art practice, highlighting their international influence, and guaranteeing their inclusion in the cultural record, past, present, and future.

Mana Fine Arts is Jersey City’s premier museum quality art storage and fine art handling company. Our facility has 10,000 square feet of museum-quality climate-controlled space, with additional non-climate space. MFA offers transport of art work anywhere in our air-ride climate art truck throughout the tri-state area. MFA art handlers have been trained to professional standards set by the American Museum Association and fully equipped to handle international and domestic shipments. MFA’s Digital Inventory Management System allows instant 24 hour access through a secured internet site to our client’s inventory including imaging of inventory.

gaia is a collective of women, for women, for the making of textiles, clothing, printmaking, painting, architecture, music, film, photography, science, the performing arts, writing, environmental, social and political activism: all things which color the lives of the women involved. We actively promote and support the work of local women artists while developing programming to reach out to and help emerging artists in need of studio space, facilities and resources. In our pursuit of awareness we also concentrate on activism, from issues in the local community to global issues affecting the lives of women.

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