Exhibitions

Collaboration for impactful change

At the Feminist Image Group (FIG), we believe in the transformative power of collaboration and innovation. Our inclusive art community thrives on diverse voices and perspectives. We invite curators who share our vision to join us in this exciting journey. Your expertise and passion for art can significantly contribute to shaping an art world that values inclusivity and creativity.

As curators, you are the custodians of art’s future, holding the key to the narratives that inform public perception and understanding. FIG is committed to providing a platform where these narratives celebrate diversity and challenge the traditional portrayal of women in art. By partnering with us, you have the opportunity to curate exhibitions that are not just displays of art, but powerful statements of change and progress. Together, we can ensure that the art world reflects the society it serves, rich and united in its pursuit of equality.

We seek curators driven by the desire to make a meaningful impact in the art community. A role in FIG goes beyond organization; it fosters a network of artists, art enthusiasts, and fellow curators committed to making a difference. Through our collective efforts, we can challenge the status quo, celebrate new voices, and inspire the next generation of artists and art lovers.

FIG: 15 Years
Jan
13
to Mar 1

FIG: 15 Years

January 13 to March 1, 2025
Art Produce Gallery
 

The Feminist Image Group (FIG) is an artist collaborative founded 15 years ago by Anna Stump. This exhibition is a celebration of that history featuring works from our members highlighting our diverse approaches to art making. FIG members will offer workshops and other opportunities for engagement throughout the exhibition.

Closing Reception:
Friday, February 28th, 5pm-8pm


Gallery Hours:
Thursdays & Fridays 2-5pm
(Entry through Gallery)
Saturdays & Sundays 9am-2pm
(Entry through Botanica)
or by appointment HERE


FIG: 15 Years - Workshop Schedule

Linda Litteral - Timelines
Saturday, January 18th, 12pm-2pm


Representing a timeline of your life in color. Using magic markers for your color and setting up a time in your life you would like to understand better we will begin the process of explaining that time in your life to yourselfthrough imagery and color. It is a subconscious process of healing within. Art has the capacity to heal us in ways we do not understand, by doing, we heal.

Ann Olsen - Slow Stitching
Saturday, February 1st, 1pm-3pm


Please join Ann Olsen for an afternoon of slow stitching. To slow stitch is to take time to mindfully create something new through stitching with needle and thread. It's also a fantastic way to creatively re-use fabric scraps or old clothes to make something new.

No special embroidery skill is required

Using a small piece of cotton batting as your base you will learn how to stich fabric scraps and trims to the base using colorful embroidery threads and simple straight stitches. Your finished slow stitched creation can be used as a patch or as a stand-alone
piece of stitched art.

All materials including needles, scissors, fabric scraps and colorful threads are provided. Or bring scraps of your favorite fabrics, trims or clothes that you would like to patch or embellish.

Cindy Zimmerman - Making Sanctuary
Saturday, February 8th, 12pm-2pm


Part 1: Practical Rituals for Artists (and interested others) Join us in some simple activities: making space, eye exercises, nondominant hand, dialogue with the image. Access your intuition, make connections, loosen your gestures. Share your own ideas.

Part 2: Home (inspired by Womanhouse—a landmark feminist art project)
Make a little cut. folded and assembled paper house. Apply line and color to the interior and exterior. Create emotion, tell a story, draw details, write all over it if you like. Think of the house as a memory, aself portrait, a portal.

Stacie Birky Greene - Mixed Media Collage
Saturday, February 15th, 1pm-3pm


The goal of this workshop is to experiment with and explore the endless possibilities of the elements of collage mixed with paint and pencil. Create a work of art by applying a variety of approaches to materials that have meaning to you such as photographs, fabric scraps, letters, drawings, and decorative paper, poetry, letters, postcards, tickets, receipts, drawings, rice papers, maps, patterned paper, labels, graph paper, ledgers, vintage book pages, engravings, stamps, etc. Bring any (or all) of the above items from home. Explore ways to self-express and loosen up with a sense of design threaded throughout while creating a wonderful illusion of harmony within the layers.

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Women Work Together 2024
May
3
to Sep 6

Women Work Together 2024

In an era of polarization and discord, FIG’s new exhibit delves into the dynamics of collaboration, exploring how cooperation is both challenging and essential in these divisive times. Artist pairs created duets—new works of art that blend their individual ideas and styles. This collaborative process showcases the creative synergy between artists and serves as a powerful metaphor for cooperation as a social process. The underlying aim of this all-media project was to ignite a dialogue that fosters empathy, understanding, and the collective advancement of society.

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Collective Retrospective 2024
Feb
24

Collective Retrospective 2024

A Pop-up Exhibition and Reading of artists’ reflections about time, their work and the lives they have led, based on an ongoing Instagram project @collectiveretrospective created by Feminist Image Group and guests, coordinated by Cindy Zimmerman and Judith Christensen.

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Portals 2022
Sep
11
to Nov 6

Portals 2022

"Portals" is an explorative journey into feminist art, inviting viewers to consider the depth and diversity of women's experiences.

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Mind the Gap 2018
Mar
15
to Apr 19

Mind the Gap 2018

Members of the Feminist Image Group invited male artists to collaborate and present alongside, as a look at the societal gender divide.

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“Feminism Now” Visual Art Exhibition by the Feminist Image Group, Shoebox Projects and Krogen Amerikaow 2018
Feb
24
to Mar 11

“Feminism Now” Visual Art Exhibition by the Feminist Image Group, Shoebox Projects and Krogen Amerikaow 2018

Members of the San Diego Feminist Image Group, Shoebox Projects and the Swedish Group Krogen Amerika present artworks that explore multiple visions of what feminism is today, in the context of Southern California and Northern Europe. Artists address the complexity of gender equality through themes such as sexism, body image, class, race, politics, spirituality, domesticity, biology, and history.

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Don’t Shut Up! 2017
Jul
8

Don’t Shut Up! 2017

Don't Shut Up offered a dialogue around female empowerment through art and activism, confronting the oppression of women's voices with an exhibition, performances, and events.

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2016 Night Stand Womens Museum of California
Nov
4
to Nov 27

2016 Night Stand Womens Museum of California

The Women’s Museum of California is pleased to present “Night Stand,” an interactive sculptural installation of bedside tables by members of the Feminist Image Group. Inspired by Woman house, the artists have re-imagined multiple night stands and accessories within the barracks at Liberty Station as metaphors to explore female narratives of wakefulness and sleep, dreams, domesticity, self-care, eroticism, birth and death. The San Diego Feminist Image Group is a coalition of visual artists who have been exhibiting together since 2009.

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“Art Produce presents FIG” at Art San Diego, 2015
Nov
5
to Nov 8

“Art Produce presents FIG” at Art San Diego, 2015

The Feminist Image Group of San Diego was formed in 2009 as a coalition of local visual artists who meet to discuss art and plan group projects and exhibitions. FIG promotes an inclusive worldview that allows many voices, with diverse concerns that impact women and our region of San Diego/Tijuana.

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2014 Beyond the Landscape Encinitas Community Center
Dec
3
to Jan 15

2014 Beyond the Landscape Encinitas Community Center


Landscape painting has been an accepted painting genre for hundreds of years. We explore new ways of depicting and interpreting the landscape that challenged the traditions of landscape painting. As our view of the world, the merging of the analog and digital worlds, our role in shaping the environment, and even the definition of what is the landscape changes, so does our way of representing it.

With this in mind, several members of the women's artist group FIG have taken on this subject and produced some thought provoking images. This exhibit will showcase these paintings and drawings that
present alternative views of what landscape means.

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2014 The Fence/La Barda Art Produce Gallery
Sep
1
to Oct 25

2014 The Fence/La Barda Art Produce Gallery

The Feminist Image Group (FIG) and Tijuana's Distrito Diez Gallery are pleased to present “Fence/Barda,” an interactive, collaborative installation at Art Produce Gallery in San Diego. A fence divides the gallery, cutting the space in half; to get to the other side, artists and guests must travel outside along a path through the Art Produce garden. Participants will interact through and around the fence throughout the installation and exhibition, using objects and performative gestures that reflect the reality of the San Diego/Tijuana Border Region.

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2013 Gift Mesa College Gallery
Apr
18

2013 Gift Mesa College Gallery

An exhibition by the artist collective FIG, “Gift” investigates the age-old concept of gift giving. The exhibition explores the varied contexts of offerings in the arts, be these personal, corporate, or institutional. As a part of Mesa College Gallery’s focus on Women’s History Month, the exhibition directly reflects the interconnectedness of the populace and the choices made in society, exposing a hybrid of irony, pathos, and joy.

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Workshop presents Inspire/Respond 2012
Aug
10
to Sep 5

Workshop presents Inspire/Respond 2012

Artists from FIG create visual and critical responses to artworks by adults with developmental disabilities of St. Madeleine Sophie's Center.


"Inspire/Respond" challenges partners to expand artistic horizons and methods, honoring the traditions of outsider art. Artworks are displayed together in this exciting exhibition at Workshop on Ray Street in the North Park Arts District.

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Feeder, Performance and Installation 2011
Apr
14

Feeder, Performance and Installation 2011

Women are care-givers. Mothers, daughters, sisters, wives–we do the bulk of caring for others. We often look after the young, the sick, the elderly and the helpless. This Relational Aesthetics performance celebrates nurturers, and explores notions of dependence, intimacy, sensuality and privacy in the act of nurturing. It recalls being fed as children, and uncomfortably harkens to a future when we may be spoon-fed as elders. Wall pieces will also explore the idea of nurturing through food.

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Women by Women 2010
Jan
16
to Feb 14

Women by Women 2010

This mixed media exhibition explores the contemporary vision of the Southern California woman. We ask ourselves the following questions: How do we see women differently than men see us? How does our specific Southern Californian culture and identity affect how we portray women? Can the erotic, the feminist, the feminine, and the working artist/woman be reconciled? —Anna Stump

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REAL ESTATE 2009
Oct
3

REAL ESTATE 2009

We began meeting in the Spring of 2009 in Anna Stump’s studio to discuss figuration and feminism. The first exhibition was a popup in a house in Golden Hill.

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