Women in the Trades

Currently in our economy, unemployment and discrimination are clumped together into our deepest impoverished demographics. Local government’s neglect of health-care and education appropriations fail our working class families and our youth. Programs cannot promote a better morale in our society if there are none. Some people, namely tradeswomen, have sought feverishly to maintain a balance between democratic invention and our community’s civil and moral right.

Tradeswomen established an incorporate network to maintain a racial and gender balance in peoples ‘ lives. They are a helping hand to those who don’t see the ‘big picture.’ My goal has always been to maintain an awareness of my gender and it’s place in our society.

I wish to share as other tradeswomen , what to do when crisis hits our country and how to embrace each other collectively and with ingenuity.

Art Gallery

Title: Looking Back in Front of Me; Selected Works of Mark Steven Greenfield, 1974-2014

Artist: Mark Steven Greenfield

Summary:

Greenfield(1974-2014) received his B.A. degree in Arts Education in 1973 from California in 1973 from California State University, Long Beach. He finally graduated in 1981 with a Masters in Fine Arts in paintings and drawings from California State University Los Angeles. M.S. Greenfield is well known for his tenures as director of the Watts Towers Arts Center in Watts, Los Angeles California. In 1921, Watts Towers creator Sabato Rodia built the steel structure on 107th street in Watts, L.A. Rodia’s steel sculpture consist of mosaic broken glass, sea shells, generic pottery and tile. A rare piece of the 19th century.

Description:

M.S. Greenfield presents a variety of collections that include some of his greatest art expressions inspired by the plight and history of urban Los Angeles. The Gallery is a bright colored array of paintings,drawings, ink prints and crafts. Greenfield’s inspiration displays a body of work that he himself describes as unapologetically didactic. It is based on his research on literature,cinema, history and the visual arts. M.S.Greenfield leaves not much out of his eclectic artwork that also includes a gallery devoted solely to pencil drawings and sketches on clayboard.

EXHIBITS!

Included in the exhibit are several titled galleries, each sectioned apart from each other with their own collections; 1. Black Space has artwork done with acrylic paint and shows images with similarities and likeness of the artwork on Stevie Wonder’s Innervisions album released in 1973. The collections include Tears of Starlost Children, Child’s Play, Queen of Veltu Eleven, Mystic and Dance of the Equinox(all from 1977 to 1979). It also has water color collections Deus and Deus #5,(1980-1981). 2. Eguns includes a theme about African deities of the Yoruba peoples of Benin and Nigeria. Yoruba worshipped spirits of the Afro-Brazilian movement. Hey,Hey It’s your Birthday(2014) is a collection done in acrylic paint that has the image of an overstuffed scarecrow with an unenthusiastic black face holding a machete. The Pushkin Paradox(2013) are oval shaped miniatures with a removable top, painted with a human face and artistic mosaic. 3. Animalicious includes collections; Jimmy Crow(2013) and Br’er Rabbitt Negotiating Solo(2012). Each one embroidered with cotton thread on cotton canvas. The Animalicious works depicts uncensored racial stereotypes from the early American film and television production era by companies such as Warner Bros., Merry Melodies, and MGM.

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