January 2
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Local artist Lynette Charters will display work from her “Missing Women” series, “Missing Parents” series, and “Matilda Effect” series in The Gallery at Tacoma Community College this January.
According to Charters, the Missing Women and Missing Parents series explore the absence of the female/parent lived experience within the American cultural narrative, while the Matilda Effect series – named for a term scientific historian Margaret W. Rossiter invented in 1993 to honor women’s rights activist and abolitionist Matilda Joslyn gage – speaks to the historical tendency to downplay women’s achievements.
“I needed to direct my attention more to speaking to the amazing things women have achieved in history,” Charters said. “The Matildas are a response to the question the Missing Series poses.”
Charters says she hopes the exhibition will prompt people to think deeply about the imbalance in how society treats women and minorities. She noted that white men make up only 30 percent of the population of the United States, but their narrative dominates politics, the media, and how history is reported.
“My art is a playful but unflinching request for change,” Charters said. “I seek to give the 30 percent pause for thought, and the rest of us a clear voice and a place at the table.”