We located the office of Wendy Roworth. Wendy was one of the first people to invite us to screen. She had meticulously arranged our visit and we quickly set out to a delicious early dinner with some of URI's fantastic faculty. We shared our journeys and made some new friends.
Our screening at Swan Hall was lovely - Wendy Roworth and her team really got the word out.
After a long day, we were warmly received at the home of Professor Jody Lisberger. We spent a cozy night and headed out the following day to hang out with 3 wonderful URI classes - fielding questions and life's ups and downs. We first met with Wendy's art history class - the students had many perceptive things to say about the film, they offered up their genuine appreciation for the way we tell Artemisia's story and remarked on their gratitude and surprise that this mandatory film screening was not the boring art history film they expected.
From there we moved on to Jody's gender studies class - that was amazing. The students told us of their lives, work, and plans for their futures and then we had to share ourselves as well - it was challenging and enlightening.
In our final stop we had lunch with a documentary film class - the students told us of their plans for their 7-12 minute film projects and we were impressed by by both their stories and the ambitiousness of their plans - WOW! URI was a great beginning to our week.
In the early afternoon of March 1st we headed out to Providence and on to RISD. The following day would take us to Tufts and then on Saturday we headed donw to DC to the National Gallery of Art. Spring is certainly off to a rollicking start for "a woman like that."
I am finally getting around to this!
ReplyDeleteI really appreciate both of you for coming to URI to show your film. My name is Christopher Snow and I was in Roworth's Baroque class and I escorted you the class after that.
I loved the film. I found Artemisia and Ellen's stories were so interesting, and relatable and at times amusing. It's almost ironic that I, a male, could relate to this story but I think everyone needs to find the "Artemisia" in them including myself and I thought being able to follow Ellen as she brought Artemisia to light was inspiring because I really felt Ellen found herself parts of herself in this female artist.
The film was audacious. It failed to bore me like many history films do, because it wasn't a typical documentary. It was relevant and conveyed why many studets are drawn to art history, not for the art but bnecause of the artists, who when people take the time find that they are as beautiful, remarkable, and complicated as the works they produce.
Great film, cannot wait for a wider release.