Our vision for our art gallery is to explore and learn from different artist around the world that use the focus of Women’s Empowerment. We choose our gallery to be about Women’s Empowerment because we believe that women’s voices are important and should be heard.  Many women around the world don’t have a voice and are suffering of mistreatment, discrimination, abuse etc. We agree that it’s not right that women’s are suffering  and we want to make this a social awareness that all women should be treated equally as man, should have a voice in this country and live a beautiful life.

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In our gallery there will be a series of different artist that do different types of pieces. Even though each artwork is different all of them have a universal meaning and background. All four artist featured in this gallery have one goal and that is to empower women to stand up for themselves. These artist want others to understand the pain and the constant criticism women receive every single day. Our goal is to communicate with other through the world of these artist and what they are portraying.   

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 In the past women were rarely allowed access to art schools, especially any of renown. The sad truth is any woman who did succeed in art commonly faded into obscurity. These realities came crashing down in the 1960's with the first wave of feminist art. This art came during the time of the Pin-up girl, hyper sexualized portraits of woman who wore skimpy outfits, and the feminist artists did their best to separate themselves from this genre,  not wanting to be sexualized. They did their best to “degender” their works so as to create less attention in the fact that they were feminine works of art. By the 70's feminine art took a turn from flying quietly under the radar to making a statement. At this point the goal became to make a statement and to be considered equal to their male counterparts and the goal has remained the same since. 

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Each artist chosen in our gallery has made work based on issues women have been facing, how women should be treated, or how they hope women will be perceived. The first artist Katrina Majkut, does her work on the stereotypes of marriage traditions a woman goes through. She uses her art to bring awareness and narrate the traditions women have before getting married. Another artist who focuses on women’s empowerment is Dipti Kulkarni. She is an Indian artist who does her work based on how women are mistreated and have their rights being abused around the world. The third artist featured in this gallery is Cheryl Braganza who is also an Indian artist. Braganza uses her artwork to illustrate the different situations she has seen women go through around her. She was always fighting human rights but more focused on women’s. The last artist in this gallery is an American artist, Lynn Hershman. Lynn Hershman’s art is allows for interaction with its viewers through a virtual woman she created that shares her daily life with those who view it.