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Blurb.com: Les Femmes Folles: The Women, 2014, is the fourth annual anthology including art, interview excerpts, poetry and short-form writing by women in all forms, levels and styles of art from around the world. Cover art by Christine Stoddard.
Writes author Cat Dixon (catdix.com): "Again Les Femmes Folles (now in its fourth year) delivers powerful poetry and inspiring art from some of the finest women producing creative work. From Laura Carlson's studio shot that begins the book to Susan Bee's bright collage and oil on canvas to Selima Dawson's powerful black, gray and red painting to the raw poetry of Andrea Potos…every page vibrates with intensity and vulnerability. Make no mistake: these women are proud, strong and fierce. The end of the book features a quote from beloved artist Wanda Ewing that says "You be you." Here each artist is herself and the book embraces the individual styles of the artists and writers. When these different artists are combined in one collection, the result is passionate and memorable."
Writes poet Sara Henning (sarahenning.net): "In Les Femmes Folles: The Women, 2014, expect to encounter a literary feast of feminism, a cornucopia of works and interviews from female artists and writers, a soirée of the divine feminine spirit that has always surged from patriarchy’s confining thumb-hold. Here, the fourth annual edition continues a lineage of female empowerment vetted in the previous editions, drawing on the sage guidance that women have shared with each other, words that have kept us alive. ‘Resist that anxious feeling that time is running out,’ Stephanie Kadel Taras tells us in one interview, ‘your artistic life lasts your whole life.’ Or as Ayn Frances dela Cruz tells us, ‘If art does things to you, makes you see and feel things, makes your heart beat you know, if you live it and breathe it, then maybe you could have a fuller, happier life in pursuing it.’"
Contributors include: Linda Adato, Beatriz Albuquerque, Renae Barnard, Sharon Louise Barnes, Susan Bee, Sandra Bouguerch, Tracy Brown, Jessica Burke, Laura Carlson, Amy Cerra, Olivia Ciummo, Tusia Dabrowska, Andrea Davis, Selima Dawson, Ayn Frances dela Cruz, Aster V. Delgado, Karen Fitzgerald, Sheila Grabarsky, Zoe Hawk, Megan Hildebrandt, Cindy Hinant, Breanne Holden, Patricia Izzo, Nugent Kos, Alinta Krauth, Melissa Ann Lambert, Erin Leland, Robin Little, Amelia Marzec, Rachel Mindrup, Mother Art Collective, Ellen Mueller, Christie Neptune, Christy Nicholas, Jane Odartey, Cathleen Parra, Stacey Piwinski, Joyce Polance, Caroline Record, Cindy Rehm, Martha Rial, Lauren Rinaldi, Elizabeth Ross, Marisol Salanova, Asia Scudder, Evelin Stermitz, Christine Stoddard, Simone Stoll, Brenda Stumpf, Bonnie MacAllister, Katrin Talbot, Cendres Lavy, Isabel Perez del Pulgar, Susana Amundaraín, Marlana Adele Vassar, Amy Gigi Alexander, Liz Axelrod, Tanaz Bhathena, Susana H. Case, Sarah A. Chavez, Carol Ciavonne, Kirsten Clodfelter, SuzAnne C. Cole, Julie Schwietert Collazo, Sally Cooper, Kate Falvey, Jamie Feldman, Sherese Francis, Sara Henning, Fran Higgins, Patrina Jones, Stephanie Kadel Taras, Kelli Stevens Kane, Sandra Gail Lambert, M. Mack, Mariana McDonald, L.Nahay, Andrea Potos, Nicole Provencher-Natale, Vanessa Raney, Gabrielle Selz, Emma Jo Stankiewicz, Donna Steiner, Jennifer MacBain Stephens, Judith Gold Stitzel, Nicole Tong, Joanna Valente, Deb Vanasse, Saira Viola, Amy Schriebman Walter, Phyllis Wax, Patricia Wellingham-Jones, Allison Wilkins, Laura Madeline Wiseman, Sara Landas and Holli Rae, Muriel Louveau, Mary Carrick and Maia Kumari Gilman.
Les Femmes Folles is a volunteer organization founded in 2011 with the mission to support and promote women in all forms, styles and levels of art from around the world with the online journal, print annuals, exhibitions and events; originally inspired by artist Wanda Ewing and her curated exhibit by the name Les Femmes Folles (Wild Women). LFF Books is a micro-feminist press that publishes 1-2 books per year by the creators of Les Femmes Folles including Intimates & Fools (Laura Madeline Wiseman, 2014) and The Hunger of the Cheeky Sisters: Ten Tales (Laura Madeline Wiseman/Lauren Rinaldi, 2015). Other titles include Les Femmes Folles: The Women 2011, 2012 and 2013, available on blurb.com, including art, poetry and interview excerpts from women artists. A portion of the proceeds from LFF books and products benefit the University of Nebraska-Omaha’s Wanda Ewing Scholarship Fund.
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