Week 7: The Takeaway
Amethyst Rey Beaver curated the online exhibition for Stay Home Gallery in April 2020.
Stay Home Gallery was founded in 2020 as an online curation project between Kaylan Buteyn and Pam Marlene Taylor to highlight womxn creating art in the global quarantine. 12 weeks of virtual shows exhibit work from artists across 17 countries, exploring the weight, worry, and complicated journey these artists have experienced during the Coronavirus pandemic. Themes include isolation, burden-bearing, anxiety, celebrations, technology, and more, encapsulated by the primary lenses of the domestic, maternal and contemporary feminist culture.
![Claire Bloomfield, "Automated Love", Photo on wood panel, sand, rose flowers, found stones, glue. [photo taken with portable scanner of flowers in in the street Vietnam]](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60ba697a5e8d3003a2500b5a/b608394c-3544-4ee5-bd30-9bb99699e966/A.Farm.Floating.jpg)
Week 7: The Takeaway
While the list of things we miss from our "normal" lives grows, there are small moments and experiences that bring us joy: more time with our children, our pets, our partners, or our gardens; less pollution in the cities and landscapes we love; rekindled connections with friends far away via video calls or letters. Yet, as the conversations turn to how to "reopen" after shut down, we wonder: What will change because of what we have learned? How have we shifted--personally, societally, globally--because of this experience? Have we learned anything at all?