Works-in Progress Programs
In response to a program theme all women willing to creatively share their own life experiences through oral histories, personal artifacts and documentation, family photos, private sketchbooks and diaries, dreams, fantasies, childhood drawings, public and private art will be given 5-10 minutes, allowed 5-10 slides and a stage. − WIL program flyer, 1993
MEETING: She
Here we can unleash our birds,
Take our talk for a walk,
Bring our sun in closer
For a better look at ourselves in life.
--Gloria Tropp, 1993
Excerpt from poem inspired by WIL program
Selected Program Themes:
WOMEN & WAR:
Curator Rebekah Windmiller
FREEDOM:
Curator Danielle Reddick
MOTHERS & DAUGHTERS:
CAREGIVING/CARETAKING:
Curator Diana Devlin
NURTURING ONE’S SELF vs NURTURING
OTHERS: Curator Trissy Callan
Race, Class & Gender:
Curator Bronwyn Rucker
IT’S NOT JUST BLACK & WHITE:
Curator Reena Walker
Image & appearance:
Curator Tree
Curator Melissa Burch
FEAR:
Curator Claire Demers
ARE YOU LIVING ON THE EDGE?
Curator Susan Stoltz
FATHERS AND DAUGHTERS:
Curator Silvianna Goldsmith
LOSS:
Curator Chitra Neogy
SUCCESS:
Curated by Sheila Seguin
TRUTH, FICTION, SECRETS & LIES:
Curator Anne Barrett
RITES OF PASSAGE:
Curator Sue Johnson
WOMEN WORKING WITH WOMAN:
Curator Jenny tango
ART AS NECESSITY:
Curator Gloria Tropp
LOVE & POWER:
Curator Jan Bell-Newman
BIOLOGICAL CLOCK:
Curator Kirsten Ames
THE SECRET LIFE OF PETS:
Curator Christine Cheng
ROOTS:
Curator Michelle Clarke
WOMEN & POWER:
Meredith Lund
Between 1991 to 1997, Women in Limbo created over 160 programs with over 50 curators. The last program of the ’80’s, Renata Lac’s What is the meaning of Success for Women?, was repeated again in the ’90’s. The most popular theme, Mothers & Daughters, originally suggested by Ann Craig at the Limbo Lounge, was first introduced at the Knitting Factory by Melissa Burch. She curated the program, Memories of Mother: Our Mothers/Ourselves in 1991 following the untimely death of her mother. Mothers & Daughters became an annual WIL program on Mother’s Day, and as part of the 1995 conference, Reflecting Ourselves, evolved into a full Mothers Day event .