“WOMAN MADE: A Seismic Sisters Art Show” will be returning to the Bay Area for Women’s History Month.
Please join Seismic Sisters in March 2024 as we host a month-long artistic showcase at Manny’s to ring in Women’s History Month. Our mission is to boost feminist artists who are shaking things up and pressing the feminist conversation forward. After a historically turbulent year, WOMAN MADE will allow people a space for reflection, conversations and dreaming into the world we wish to see. With a line up of the Bay Area’s most provocative and fascinating artistic voices, WOMAN MADE will leave you moved & inspired.
Featured Artists: Nicole Dixon, Taiko Fujimura, Tiffany Conway, Nye Lyn Tho, Nathalie Kardjian, Susan R Kirshenbaum, Krystal Lauk
The opening reception on March 1st from 6-8pm is not to be missed, featuring live music, performances and meet-and-greets with participating artists.
Opening Reception Performances by: Mia Pixley, Ash Rex, Molly James Band, Rhodessa Jones
About Manny’s: Manny’s is a vibrant civic and political events space in the heart of the Mission district, San Francisco. Hosting events and leaders impacting change, recent guests have included First Lady Dr. Jill Biden and Congresswoman Barbara Lee. A beautiful hip cafe, bar and gathering space, Manny’s is the perfect location for the Woman Made art show.
Manny's HOURS are Monday CLOSED / Tue-Fri 8AM-8PM / Sat-Sun 9AM-4PM.
(See Manny's website for any updates on hours or special events.)
Dates: Seismic Sisters WOMAN MADE Art Show will run from March 1- March 24, 2024. The opening reception will be held at Manny’s from 6pm-8pm on March 1st, 2024. The usual hours & offerings at Manny’s will not change throughout the month. (See above for Manny's hours of operation.) Stop in to pick up your favorite order, and check out the inspiring work of local artists. Seismic Sisters look forward to seeing you in March!
ARTISTS
Tiffany Conway
Tiffany Conway is a Bay Area painter who creates vibrant, imaginative works that celebrate the African Diaspora. Born in 1984, Tiffany brings a bold, expressive style to paintings that explore the intersections of past and present. While largely self- taught, Tiffany is an award- winning artist and participated in exhibitions across California. Her paintings seek to capture the full spectrum of human experience, drawing from both memory and imagination. Using bright colors and fluid forms, this painter creates worlds that are at once grounded in history and infused with modern spirit. Whether depicting daily life or the inner landscape of navigating life, this artist's works are emotionally resonant and visually striking, using the human figure as a window into the Black experience. Through bold figuration and imaginative storytelling, this painter creates work that is by turns joyful, thoughtful, and celebratory. is a Bay Area painter who creates vibrant, imaginative works that celebrate the African Diaspora. Born in 1984, Tiffany brings a bold, expressive style to paintings that explore the intersections of past and present. While largely self- taught, Tiffany is an award- winning artist and participated in exhibitions across California. Her paintings seek to capture the full spectrum of human experience, drawing from both memory and imagination. Using bright colors and fluid forms, this painter creates worlds that are at once grounded in history and infused with modern spirit. Whether depicting daily life or the inner landscape of navigating life, this artist's works are emotionally resonant and visually striking, using the human figure as a window into the Black experience. Through bold figuration and imaginative storytelling, this painter creates work that is by turns joyful, thoughtful, and celebratory.
NYE LYN
If it’s aesthetically pleasing or psychologically satisfying, I’m intrigued. Since 2015, I’ve been working independently creating graphics and designing layouts for small to large businesses and institutions. I’m also a high-end retoucher and have worked with companies such as Uber Eats & Sephora. If i’m not obsessing over pixels then i’m studying the planets. Researching astrology is one of my favorite hobbies! It allows me to get to know folks a little deeper. I’m a Taurus sun so i’m delighted by beauty. I’m a Scorpio moon so I try to find meaning in everything and I’m an Aries mercury so i’m cutting this bio short 🙂
Krystal Lauk
Krystal lives in San Francisco with her little family of three. She comes with a wealth of experience, being one of the OG Illustrators to recognize the need for illustration within the Tech industry. When she’s not strategizing on illustration systems, she’s basking in the sun on a picnic blanket with her son, and going on nature walks.
Nathalie Kardjian
Nathalie Kardjian is a Syrian-born, Armenian-American painter, photographer and a filmmaker, based in San Francisco. In addition to being an artist, she also works as a dialogue designer, while pursuing her passion for art.
Nathalie's vision of art is deeply influenced by her experience of growing up in Syria and witnessing the devastation and displacement caused by the civil war. Her art is not just about the chaos and complexity of the mind, but also about the possibility of finding peace and healing among that chaos. She intends to use the canvas as a space to confront the traumas of her past and find a sense of peace and belonging within Art. The act of creating art has been a transformative process for her, allowing her inner child to express in a way that goes beyond words and boundaries.
Nathalie’s Paintings are characterized by their bold vibrant colors, strong lines and dynamic brushstrokes. She uses a variety of media in her paintings, including acrylics, inks, and mixed media. She has described them as a way of expressing the beauty of life, the pain of loss, and the art of resilience.
Nicole Dixon
Nicole Dixon was born in Oakland, CA, and in 2002 received a BA in Studio Art at Spelman College in Atlanta, GA. As a practicing artist her exhibition history spans over two decades, and both coasts, including the Bay Area, Atlanta, Miami, and D.C. She teaches art to youth and adults alike, which has taken her as far as the Kalahari as a guest art instructor. As an art administrator she has coordinated nearly a dozen solo shows, curated an exhibition at Oakland’s Joyce Gordon Gallery, and juried a national visual arts award competition. She has also managed the community engagement programs for a number of exhibitions, including a workshop series for San Francisco’s The Black Woman Is God exhibit. Since 2010, she has coordinated monthly/seasonal family art projects for the Museum Of the African Diaspora, designing and facilitating art activities with up to 200 museum visitors of all ages per event. As the artist in residence for Chromatic Black, an interdisciplinary artist’s collective in D.C., she developed screening and discussion guides for a Fannie Lou Hamer short film during their Oscar shortlist campaign, and created a traveling gallery exhibit for community engagement around their Ida B Wells docuseries. As an educator, she has served on her non-profit Montessori preschool’s Board of Directors since 2009, and assisted in its million dollar program expansion. She is also serving as a founding Board Member for OASIS, a Montana non-profit garden hub bringing holistic, cultural, creative, and spiritual programming. Dixon uses her skills as a practicing artist, educator, and administrator for self-actualization, community empowerment, bridge-building, and positive social change.
Susan R. Kirshenbaum
Susan R. Kirshenbaum, a long time San Francisco resident is active in the local art community as an established artist and curator. She was lucky to be encouraged to pursue art and photography from an early age. Her family business, Ivy School of Professional Art, in Pittsburgh is where she initially studies and worked until she moved to SF to continue her studies at SFAI. When she met Jack ) her future husband), they moved to Hawaii then to NYC before returning to the Bay. Kirshenbaum enjoyed a fruitful career as a creative director in marketing till she returned to her calling as a full-time artist in 2016. Her work wins awards and she exhibits regularly in group and solo shows, as well as independently curating exhibitions. She is active in SFWA and NCWCA. In 2020, she founded The Invisibility Collective, a multi-generational, bi-coastal, interdisciplinary, social practice group of artists.
Taiko Fujimura
Taiko Fujimura is a mixed media artist based in San Francisco. Currently, she is focusing on painting with watercolor, ink, acrylic, and oil on a variety of surfaces. Taiko selects materials that link her inner self with the outside world, creating an extended montage of her personal experiences, connections and relationships with both people and objects.
Her use of colors is often vivid and evokes her emotional responses to objects and non-objects. Her pieces confront the dichotomies between chaos and order, industrial and organic, mind and body, positive and negative, logical and random, and intuitive and sequential. She feels an understanding of dualism is key to her art. Her pieces seek to bridge the contradictions around us where two opposites co-exist through unifying space. The concepts she explores include peacefulness, harmony, unity, and universality.
PERFORMERS
Molly James Band
Molly’s soulfully rich voice greets you with open arms and a nod of recognition: we’re in this together. With ukulele in hand, she offers music that speaks to the dynamism of our human experience. Joy, grief, family, violence, love, patriarchy; nothing is off limits. With power, humility, and integrity, she sings with a vision toward healing the wounds of our world.
She created and lead the Bay Area’s feminist-driven 9 Lives Music Collective. She lead the minimalist folk band Tooth and Talon, and then the jazz-dipped Molly James Band. She read her poems and shared her story. And now, she prepares to bring a much nurtured dream to light, as she embarks on her first solo tour! Check out the dates and come on by, summer is the season to witness her bloom in full shine!
Rhodessa Jones
Rhodessa Jones of San Francisco is an actress, teacher, singer, and writer who is the co-artistic director of the San Francisco-based theater company Cultural Odyssey and the founding director of the Medea Project: Theater for Incarcerated Women, which brings performance workshops to incarcerated women and women living with HIV. Jones first learned the art of storytelling from her grandmother and her aunts. This has led Rhodessa into the art of autobiographical theater and stortelling to support the most vulnerable people to heal collectively.
Mia Pixley
Mia Pixley, Ph.D. is a mother, clinical psychologist, and artist who uses her cello, voice, and music performance to study and represent aspects of self and other, community, and the natural world. Similar to the collaborative lens from which she approaches her psychotherapy practice, Mia’s artistic collaborations lead with curiosity, honesty, humility, and humor. Protectively whimsical and simultaneously melancholic, Mia’s music gravitates toward the beauty hidden in sorrow, pain, and loss and this beauty’s potential to inspire curiosity, wonder, rebirth, and reconnection to ourselves, each other, and the natural world.
She lives in the California Bay Area. Mia cares about community, interconnectivity, and nature. Mia released her first full length album titled “Margaret in the Wild" July 2021. This was followed by a poem and music collaboration record titled “Passage”, April 2022. Mia will share her first immersive virtual art and music collection, “Coral Enneagrams: Sound of the reef”, via the experiential art platform wildxyz in September 2023.
Ash Rex
Ash Rexford is a clown, contortionist, dancer, and movement artist. Since 2010 Ash has been performing on stages from theaters to festivals, choreographing solos and ensembles, developing characters, designing costumes, directing, producing, and traveling the world sharing her passion for performance. Starting as a dancer and a natural on stage, Ash always dreamed of being a modern circus performer but never believed it was possible. In 2015 after 6 seasons with SLO Tease Burlesque, performing and choreographing circus acts for Suspended Motion Aerial Academy, and performances across the United States with Cirque Des Bêtes, Ash changed her career to pursue circus and performing arts full time with a focus on teaching and blending her various movement backgrounds into one with her technique, Slither.