How does a woman navigate between the often ignored undercurrent of gender bias and the fractious Feminist movements seeking recognition and equality?

As a garment is made through the assembly of parts cut from sewing patterns, likewise, myths and fables are a kind of fabric cut from the human experience.

Laura Bell, a painter based in NYC, and Ian Ganassi, a poet living in New Haven, met when both were artists-in-residence at the Millay Colony for the Arts. In 2005 they entered into the collaboration that resulted in the ongoing series “The Corpses,” a group of collages that began with a half-finished poem and several hand-scrawled phrases on a piece of printer paper stained with coffee rings that Ganassi mailed to Bell...

The Pole Series represents a melding of photography and painting, bright colors and shades of gray, textures and lines. All pieces were inspired by the poetic fragility of natural shapes and their most subtle details.

After a month and a half of staying in India, I felt like I lived there. I ventured to the country in order to work with my creative partner on a Polaroid project asking local people what they wanted to do before they die. My own goals for the trip included a spiritual restructuring, getting healthy, and drinking in the surrounding culture...