LESLY DESCHLER CANOSSI

COLLABORATIVE PROJECT

Co-created with Zoraida Lopez-Diago, Women Picturing Revolution (WPR) 2016–present is a cultural organization that foregrounds the work of identified women and gender-expansive lens-based artists who have documented conflicts, crises, and revolution in both private realms and public spaces, through ongoing series of seminars, panels, and films. Their volume Black Matrilineage, Photography, and Representation: Another Way of Knowing, (Leuven University Press, distributed by Cornell University Press in North America) draws on a wide range of scholarly inquiry and contemporary art, addresses misconceptions and fills in the gaps that exist in the photographic representation of Black motherhood, mothering, and mutual care within Black communities. For more information please visit Women Picturing Revolution.

A selection of recorded events & interviews:

Tate Modern, London, Fast Forward: How Do Women Work. ​Women Picturing Revolution presented a paper on their volume Black Matrilineage, Photography, and Representation: Another Way of Knowing, Leuven University Press, 2022.

Missing Mother conference (University of Bolton, UK), Woman Up! Panel Stopping the F*cking Wheel focused on the development and continued need for women-led platforms and organizations supporting artists who are also mothers and carers over the past 10 years.

WOMAN UP! Podcast Series 2, episode 8 – Women Picturing Revolution

African American Intellectual History Society's (AAIHS) Black Perspectives 

Humble Arts Foundation