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“Women’s Iconography in the Twenty-First Century”

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“Women’s Iconography in the Twenty-First Century” will be a collaborative impact project between Dr Brian Baker, Dr Azelina Flint (ELCW) and the Blackburn Museum and Art Gallery. It will generate significant impart for female practitioners of iconography (an ancient sacred artform that historically excluded women), by creating the first international network/digital archive of women’s iconography hosted by the website of the Blackburn Museum, which holds the largest collection of icons outside London. The network/archive will list and digitally exhibit the work of 50 iconographers in Britain and North America with whom we have already made contact and will lay the foundation for an AHRC Networking Scheme bid that will allow us to expand this network/archive to Europe through organizing a series of events to culminate in the first international conference of women’s iconography. Our IAA project will also generate broader impact by delivering six workshops, led by twelve iconographers, that will introduce local schools, third age networks, and church congregations to iconography and support the collaborative creation of icons that represent individuals from minority communities. Our collaboration with the Blackburn Museum will ultimately support an application for a National Lottery Project Grant to finance the first international exhibition of contemporary women’s iconography, “Diversifying the Icon”, which will support the museum’s current decolonisation agenda by exhibiting icons that expands the visibility of underrepresented groups in Christian sacred art.

Layperson's description

A two-year project to deliver 6 workshops in Lancaster, Blackburn and Ireland to invite public participation in making icons of forgotten women and their histories.
Short titleWomen's Iconography
StatusActive
Effective start/end date13/02/2331/03/25

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