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CHRIST DIEPENBROCK Visual Artist Exhibited: Collection of Rooms. On participating in Vagina Festival 2007: I have participated in different Vagina Festivals around the Dallas/Ft. Worth area for last couple of years. My schooling at Marymount College in NYC and Texas Woman's University in Denton, TX has helped me discover the important role female artists play in defining the role of woman. I think is imperative for women to depict their bodies in a womanly way and not for the arousal and pleasure of men or to sell a pair of jeans. V-Day celebrations are a perfect place for women to view my work that celebrates the power and strength of women. (I did not have time to proof this so feel free to edit if you want.) About Christa Diepenbrock's work: A Collection of Broken Rooms is a series of my recent figurative paintings and collages. The work consist of my small personal hand-made collage studies and larger than life sized paintings that explore the complex emotions surrounding lovers and their secrets keep silent by their home's walls. My collages are a combination of craft papers, fabric and hand drawn figures . The paintings are abstracted figured human dramas in which fabric is combined with oil. Each wall in our homes has seen untold amounts of human drama, which relates to my idea that human emotions are imprinted onto the room's walls. My concern recently has been articulating in paint these narrative stories by placing abstract figures into the confines of a room. The sharp, harsh angles of lines of the room against organic figural forms hint at the human dramas that lie behind closed doors. The painted rooms become a stage in which families act out their stories. Contact: christadee@gmail.com, 469-556-9611. Websites: www.christadiepenbrock.com For more on Vagina Festival 2007 artists >   VAGINA FESTIVAL 2007 took place on FEB. 16-18 at AGNI GALLERY, NYC Proceeds were donated to V-Day. We were honored to present two performances of The Vagina Monologues. About Vagina Festival 2007 > View the 2007 Program > VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN > At least one out of every three women around the world has been beaten, coerced into sex, or otherwise abused in her lifetime — with the abuser usually someone known to her. Violence against women and girls is a universal problem of epidemic proportions. V-Day's 2007 theme Reclaiming Peace seeks to make the connection between the worldwide anti-violence work of V-Day activists with our collective desire for peace and an end to armed conflicts. “We are saying that if a government supports the use of force, weapons, violence as a method of control and dominance, this models and gives license to the same kind of behavior at home,” stated V-Day Founder/Artistic Director Eve Ensler.

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