Date/Time
Date(s) - 2014/03/20
6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Location
Betti Ono Gallery
Categories
Women & Street Art: A Conversation
Featuring Tatyana Fazlalizadeh + Guests
This special ticket includes admission to both the Artist talk + #GOODCOMPANY mixer. Join artist Tatyana Fazlalizadeh +special guests in conversation about their work and role as women in the street art movement. After the Women In Street Art artist talk, join us stick around for the launch of #GOODCOMPANY a 3rd Thursday networking mixer/social for artists, creative types and the people who love them! Hosted by Crillmatic + friends .
Stop Telling Women To Smile by Tatyana Fazlalizadeh
February 19-April 19, 2014
Stop Telling Women To Smile (STWTS) is a public art project and exhibition that addresses gender based street harassment created by Brooklyn, NY based artist Tatyana Fazlalizadeh. STWTS features hand-drawn portraits of women who have told their stories of harassment that are transformed into large-scale posters and wheat pasted on outdoor walls, placing the images and voices of women in public space. The project was designed to examine the affects of street harassment as experienced by women across the country, with city-specific renditions used as the vehicle through which the issues falling under the umbrella of street harassment can be presented in the communities where local women experience them.
Fazlalizadeh will be working as Artist In Residence at Betti Ono from February 19-28, 2014, leading group discussions and workshops about gender based street harassment. During the workshops and group discussions the artist will meet and photograph local women, collect their stories, and then portray their experiences with street harassment on Bay Area-specific posters that will be installed in public spaces. The resulting exhibition will feature new, site-specific work along with existing STWTS posters and oil paintings related to the project.
Artist Bio
Tatyana Fazlalizadeh is a Brooklyn based oil painter/illustrator whose work focuses on portraiture
and social/political themes. An Oklahoma City native, she exhibits her paintings in galleries
nationally, while completing illustration commissions for magazines, films, and books.
ABOUT BETTI ONO
Betti Ono’s mission is to inspire limitless creativity, presenting multidisciplinary arts, media and
performance exhibitions, programs and experiences with a slant towards experimentation and
independent thinking. The art space includes a commercial gallery, performance venue and retail
shop that connects downtown Oakland with the City’s vibrant Uptown Arts & Entertainment
District. Betti Ono is a 100% woman owned and operated creative enterprise founded by Anyka
Barber in 2011.