International Association of Female Artists

03/12/2026

03/12/2026

Is it time to have this conversation? Again?

THE WOMEN AND MONEY PROJECT IN 2016 asked a simple yet powerful question: what is the value of women’s lives, labor, and presence?

Through the theme “Women and Money,” artists explored the emotional landscapes surrounding wealth, scarcity, and power. Money is not only currency—it shapes identity, relationships, possibility, and belonging.
Yet much of what women give to the world exists outside the language of economics. Women nurture communities, weave relationships, sustain culture, and carry invisible networks of care. Like pollinators moving quietly through a landscape, they generate the vitality from which communities grow.
Still, the structures that define financial value rarely recognize these contributions.

Since the exhibition in 2016 10 years ago, I believe we have had significant backlash to all of the discussions that were raised at that time- at the time we did that exhibition at the UMN Department of Art & Katherine E. Nash Gallery we had no idea of the realities that existed and what was to come...2016 and beyond.

03/01/2026

Amendment II, 3:29 Video Installation, 2013)Director/Cinematographer/Editor/Sound Mixer: Meng Tang

10/21/2025

Haiku

10/17/2025

I gained 232 followers in the past 90 days! Thank you all for your continued support. I could not have done it without you. 🙏🤗🎉

06/14/2025

https://youtu.be/JIvhkm3gZXk

IAFA artist Meng Tang created this work many years ago, and it’s striking how the issue it addresses remains relevant today. It is so sad to hear that Speaker Hortman and her husband were assassinated a couple hours ago!

Amendment II, 3:29 Video Installation, 2013)Director/Cinematographer/Editor/Sound Mixer: Meng Tang

04/11/2023

Member Artist Laurel O'Gorman, an artist not to be missed, lives in the Twin Cities and works out of her home studio. Magnificent.

03/28/2023

News and Events from University of Minnesota Libraries

01/26/2023

Ellen Schillace, Aimee Sutherland, Jacquelyn Fay, Ty Schwantes and Bryce Mason created a map of the East and West Bank of the University of Minnesota. Russ White, arts writer, wrote this article for the University paper which talks about process. Stay tuned for a program at the end of March. The work is hanging in the Wilson Library on West Bank.

A new mixed media painting by students in Diane Willow’s Art & Change class highlights a collaborative approach to research and art-making

12/28/2022

CAMILLE GAGE...a memory from The Women and Money Project 2016. Her piece "ON THE DOLLAR" was powerful, meaningful and still is the most pressing issue for many women world wide. This piece was carefully conceptualized and designed by Camille Gage as a quilt with actual dollars (cut) to demonstrate the gender inequity in pay in percentage (by state) what Black, Native, Latina and White Women receive in wages. A grim look at what women actually have to work with to feed their children and 6 years later even more destabilizing.

09/02/2022

Call for entrees 2022

The Twin Cities Iranian Culture Collective invites artists to apply for its fourth annual Iranian Culture Festival Art Exhibition. Entries are being accepted July 1st, through August 30th.

The exhibition will be on display at the Hopkins Center for the Arts from September 22 – October 22, 2022 with selected works. The exhibition is open to residents of Minnesota and western Wisconsin, including Iranian and Iranian-American artists and any other artists whose work is inspired by Iran’s cultural and artistic traditions. Successful applicants will be notified on or before September 5th. Artists whose work is accepted for the exhibition will receive an honorarium.

The Twin Cities Iranian Culture Collective is a non-political, non-religious non-profit organization with a mission of sharing Iran’s rich cultural and artistic heritage with the broader Minnesota community. For more information go to: https://twincitiesiranianculturefestival.com/2022/07/04/call-for-entries/