FILM // Violet Protest Documentary Screening
Event coordinated in partnership with Arizona PBS.
July 31, 2024 | Reception @ 5:30 – 6:30 pm // Screening @ 6:30 – 8 pm
Presented in Whiteman Hall. Limited capacity.
TICKETS: Free for Members | $8 for the general public
Join us for a special screening of Violet Protest, a poignant documentary capturing a public effort to send 25 hand-made textile squares to each member of the 117th Congress, advocating for core American values. Following the screening, Ann Morton, recipient of the 2019 Arlene and Morton Scult Artist Award, and Gina Woodall will delve into discussions surrounding the intersection of art, activism, and politics depicted in the film, moderated by Rachel Zebro, Associate Curator of Collections. This event offers a unique opportunity to explore the power of grassroots movements and civic engagement in shaping political discourse.
About Ann Morton:
Ann Morton utilizes traditional textile techniques as conceptual tools for aesthetic, social communication to examine the society, of which we are all a part of, whether as bystanders, participants, victims, or perpetrators. She is driven by a desire to employ her art as a voice for advocacy. Morton’s work reflects her own hand work and the hand work of a wide variety of community participants that she helps orchestrate through public interventions, seeking to harness the power that comes from the act of making and engaging the hands of many to create a larger whole. After a more than 35-year professional career as a graphic and environmental designer, Morton earned her MFA from the Arizona State University Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts in 2012. She is currently a practicing artist and instructor at Mesa Community College, having previously taught at Arizona State University and Paradise Valley Community College. Morton is currently represented by the Lisa Sette Gallery in Phoenix, AZ. Her work has been recognized, published, and shown nationally and internationally including FiberArts Magazine; 1000 Artisan Textiles: Contemporary Fiber Art, Quilts, and Wearables; American Craft Magazine; Surface Design Journal; and the National Endowment for the Arts Creative Placemaking (2017); NPR’s All Things Considered (2021); film documentary Violet Protest: A Creative Call for National Unity; and solo-exhibition Ann Morton: The Violet Protest at Phoenix Art Museum as the 2019 Arlene and Morton Scult Artist Award recipient.
About Gina Woodall:
Gina Serignese Woodall is a teaching professor in the School of Politics and Global Studies (SPGS) at Arizona State University. She has been teaching full-time since 2007. Woodall also serves as the director of the Capital Scholars Internship Program, the lead faculty for SPGS's Early Start Program, and the director of Community Engagement for SPGS. She received her bachelor's, master's, and doctorate from Arizona State University, and her teaching interests include American government and politics, political dis/misinformation, and women in politics. She is a proponent of experiential learning for all students, as well as connecting students to community professionals and alumni in the Greater Phoenix area and in Washington, D.C.