{"id":2665,"date":"2011-04-25T12:16:11","date_gmt":"2011-04-25T17:16:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gaiastudio.org\/wonderwomen\/?p=2665"},"modified":"2011-04-25T12:16:11","modified_gmt":"2011-04-25T17:16:11","slug":"article-about-nnion-in-new-magazine-now-online","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gaiastudio.org\/wonderwomen\/?p=2665","title":{"rendered":"Article about NNION in New Magazine – now online!!"},"content":{"rendered":"

From the New Magazine article<\/a> at Jersey City Independent <\/p>\n

Wonder Women: _gaia Aims to Fix the Art World\u2019s \u2018Problem with Women\u2019 \u2026 One Woman at a Time
\nBy Brendan Carroll \u2022 Apr 25th, 2011 \u2022 Category: Arts, Lead Story<\/p>\n

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\nThe women of _gaia\u2019s most recent Wonder Women residency (All photos: Steve Gold)
\nThis story also appears in the Spring 2011 issue of NEW magazine.<\/p>\n

More than half of artists working today in the United States are women. Despite these large numbers, many female artists live on the fringe, eking out an existence in relative obscurity. The hallmarks of art world booty \u2013 museum retrospectives, solo exhibitions in blue-chip galleries, private and public commissions \u2013 go mostly to men, not women.<\/p>\n

Just how bad is it for women in the art world?<\/p>\n

According to an encyclopedic demographic and employment study released in 2008 by the National Endowment of the Arts:<\/p>\n

* 5 percent of works in museums are by women.
\n * 17 percent of works in galleries are by women.
\n * 30 percent of Guggenheim grants go to women.
\n * 33 percent of art-faculty members are women.
\n * Women artists\u2019 income is 30 percent that of the income of men.<\/p>\n

This does not sit well with Newark native and Downtown Jersey City resident Doris Ca\u00e7oilo (seen standing at right). So in 2002, she and longtime friend Amie Figueiredo brought together a group of women to begin organizing around women\u2019s issues, activism and art. They named their organization _gaia, after the Greek goddess of Earth.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe art world has a problem with women,\u201d Ca\u00e7oilo says. \u201cWe need to fix this.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u00a9Melissa MacAlpin, ...and all of this is metaphor, Love stories from the NYTimes<\/p><\/div>\n

_gaia works to fix this through a number of avenues. It operates as a collective of member artists and activists who \u201cactively promote and support the work of local women artists,\u201d as the group\u2019s statement reads. _gaia also puts together intensive artist residencies each year, runs a studio space for its members, hosts monthly art openings, and partners with other local groups for shows and projects.
\nRead the entire article here!<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

From the New Magazine article at Jersey City Independent Wonder Women: _gaia Aims to Fix the Art World\u2019s \u2018Problem with Women\u2019 \u2026 One Woman at a Time By Brendan Carroll \u2022 Apr 25th, 2011 \u2022 Category: Arts, Lead Story The … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gaiastudio.org\/wonderwomen\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2665","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gaiastudio.org\/wonderwomen\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gaiastudio.org\/wonderwomen\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gaiastudio.org\/wonderwomen\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gaiastudio.org\/wonderwomen\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2665"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gaiastudio.org\/wonderwomen\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2665\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2666,"href":"https:\/\/gaiastudio.org\/wonderwomen\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2665\/revisions\/2666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gaiastudio.org\/wonderwomen\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gaiastudio.org\/wonderwomen\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gaiastudio.org\/wonderwomen\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}