ARTIST STATEMENT
My submitted work reflects the topics of gender based oppression by pointing out how my life choices are deemed opposed to what is written in the Project 25 document. My poem describes the political conflicts happening in the world today, and my photograph was taken at a recent protest against the U.S. government and its current leaders. This photo shows resistance in action. All three entries are examples of how my artistry (writing and photography) are used in this time of unrest. I use my talents as a way to show dissent, how the world conflicts affect me as an individual, and how they are part of my personal activism.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Rosemary Davis received an AS degree in Photography from San Francisco City College. She continued her education with an AA degree in filmmaking from Film in the Cities in St. Paul, MN. Her BS degree in Visual Communication is from the University of Minnesota and an MFA degree in writing is from Hamline University in St. Paul. She completed an internship with New Front Films, a poetry fellowship with the Loft Writing Center, and is an award-winning travel writer. She worked in video and film production professionally for almost 25 years. Davis completed a photography week at Wisconsin’s Clearing Folk Art School and took classes at the Minneapolis Photo Center. She attended the Visa Pour ‘Image Photojournalism Festival in France and Travel Writers and Photographers Conferences in California. Davis has exhibited her photography for 30 years in Minneapolis/St. Paul, Door County, Wisconsin, Chicago, Greenville, SC, New York City, and San Miguel de Allende. Her writing has been published in numerous books, web sites, in the Minneapolis Star Tribune and the Austin American Statesman newspapers. She is a published poet and nonfiction writer. Her lyrical San Francisco memoir, “Before They Left Us,” was published in 2018.
© Rosemary Ann Davis