Upcoming Events
Art+ Activism #22: Feminist Art Activism and Artivism
with Katy Deepwell
Sunday, April 26, from 10:30 am to Noon PT
on Zoom
In this talk, Katy Deepwell will explore key ideas in feminist art activisms around ecofeminisms, based on her publications to date. She will contrast political definitions of activisms with approaches to artivisms, where art practices take priority over protest. This distinction matters in thinking about different feminist strategies which artists use and how their diverse approaches to art-making convey political dissent, speak about issues or determine their approach to exhibiting.
About Katy Deepwell
Katy Deepwell lives in London, is a feminist art critic, and is founder of KT Press and editor-in-chief of n.paradoxa: international feminist art journal, which launched online in 1996 and was published from 1998 to 2017 as a semi-annual print magazine with 40 volumes. KT Press continues to publish books on contemporary art and feminism.
From 2013 to 2025, Deepwell was Professor of Contemporary Art, Theory and Criticism at Middlesex University London, and a Senior Research Fellow at Global Dis:connect, Kate Hamburger Kolleg, LMU, Munich (Oct 2025-March 2026).
In addition to numerous essays and books, she has recently published Conversations on Art, Artworks and Feminism (2025), and De/Anti/Post-Colonial Feminisms in Contemporary Art and Textile Crafts (2023), 50 Feminist Art Manifestos (2022), as well as Feminist Art Activists and Artivisms (2020).
To learn more about Katy, visit katydeepwell.com. For the latest from KT Press, visit ktpress.co.uk.
Photo: Katy Deepwell (ed) Feminist Art Activisms and Artivisms (Amsterdam: Valiz, 2020)
In person! WEAD-ing with Planting Oceania
A collaborative event
Saturday, April 18, 2:00 to 5:00 pm PT
Oakland, California
Women Eco Artists Dialog and Planting Oceania are partnering to rejuvenate The Pie Lot, a pie-shaped piece of vacant land in West Oakland.
Join us to celebrate this partnership!
We will begin with a blessing to thank and honor the Indigenous land we’re partnering on and the Lisjan, the Indigenous Stewards of the land. We will then “meet the weeds,” get acquainted and learn about the plants that are already thriving on the lot. We’ll also weed; share food; and Talanoa – Talk Story, to learn and connect with each other.