Badass Art Woman Awards Honors Resilience in Art
The fifteenth Badass Art Woman Awards, hosted at the Angel Orensanz Foundation on Sept. 29th, was a radiant celebration of resilience and art as rebellion. Founded by Rebecca Pauline Jampol and Jasmine Wahi, Project for Empty Space (PES) honoured women artists who cultivate beauty, sustain truth, and preserve the power of art.
The event, themed 'la résilience', paid tribute to Dr. Deborah Willis, Helen Toomer, and Ebony L. Haynes, celebrated as part of a lineage of women artists. PES, now expanded into a constellation of studios, residencies, and cultural corridors in Newark and Manhattan, sees patronage as guardianship, protecting artists and ensuring future generations inherit vision, not silence.
The evening embodied a duality of intellect and glamour, with bespoke cocktails, candelabras, and music by DJ MD and Mia X. Fifteen women were nominated as 'Fellow Badasses' to celebrate the honorees as part of a chorus, not solitary heroines. The Badass Art Woman Awards served as a manifesto, declaring resilience as radiance in defiance and art as a form of rebellion.
The fifteenth Badass Art Woman Awards was more than an event; it was a 'liturgy of resilience'. It celebrated women who, like Dr. Deborah Willis, Helen Toomer, and Ebony L. Haynes, embody the power of art to transform and defy. PES continues to give visibility to women, femmes, and artists of color, ensuring their voices resonate through generations.
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