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Update intro from my email blast

Here’s the link to my plague year 2020 email: “mothering is just one of my superpowers.”

Here’s the news from me. I’m getting back to my work after recovering from Covid-19. I had a mild case and the doctor recommended I not get tested because “that’s where the sick people are.” (!) For over a month my work has been to get healthy and I think I’m finally there. Now I’m looking out at my prospects, blinking.

The market landscape for self-produced artists like me has been completely decimated. I have relied on large-crowd gatherings to sell my work directly and interact with my visitors (this performance is at least half of the Project) and I don’t see those gatherings coming safely back until, perhaps, next year. I am putting more of my works on my Etsy site at FemalePowerProject.com so that even though you cannot experience the “Female Power Hut” (my market installations) you can at least buy some of the things. This email is showing some of the things appropriate for Mother’s Day, May 10, the next holiday here in the U.S. There are many more things on the shop and even more works showing on my blog (here!).

  • The view into the Female Power Hut.
  • My view from inside: fellow vendors Mayleen and Olivia.
My last set up at Eastern Market in Washington DC. March 8, 2020.

After it is safe to open for business in DC I plan to make over my retail(ish) studio, Black Lab, into a Female Power Project environment and allow visitors by appointment. I will also explore ways to depict the studio environment in other more distributed ways on social media. If you haven’t already, I invite you to see my more visual presentations on Instagram at these handles: @LedaBlackArtist and @TheFemalePowerProject. You can follow my more word based presentations on Facebook at these feeds: facebook.com/BlackLab and facebook.com/FemalePowerProject.

When it comes toward Fall I will be publishing a book about the Female Power Project. This will be integrated into the next calendar. I’ve just started work on that writing. I will be posting installments on facebook.com/FemalePowerProject.

Thanks for reading. Stay Strong.
—Leda Black, creatrix at Female Power Project

Female Power Project, perSISTERS designs, Uncategorized

Message magnets & buttons: stick them up

Since I will not be selling my works in person for a while, I have put a lot more things for you to buy online. Now on the Female Power Project Etsy site: fridge magnets and 1.25 inch pin-back buttons. Fridge magnets can go on filing cabinets too! The buttons come in sets.

About the buttons on the card: These Buttons (only five of many buttons) display the distilled messages from a selection of “perSISTER” prints about particular women and their stories. Take Up Space is inspired by Rosa Parks. Be inconvenient is inspired by Fannie Lou Hamer. Fear Less is inspired by Harriet Tubman. Stay Strong is inspired by Anita Hill and Christine Blasey Ford. Be Brave is inspired by Danuta Danielsson, the protagonist in the viral photo of a woman hitting a young nazi over the head with her handbag.

You can also buy loose sets of six that aren’t on a card. These come in an organza bag.

Button Gallery

  • Five Female Power message buttons (1.25 inch diameter) on an info card.
Buttons on the Female Power Project Etsy site

Magnet Gallery

  • Filing cabinet magnets!
  • Fridge Magnets!
  • 2.5 x 3.5 inch heavy duty wrapped magnet for Ruth Bader Ginsburg: Dissent
  • 2.5 x 3.5 inch heavy duty wrapped magnet for Ruby Bridges: Nevertheless She Persisted
  • 2.5 x 3.5 inch heavy duty wrapped magnet for Rosa Parks: Take Up Space
  • 2.5 x 3.5 inch heavy duty wrapped magnet for Eleanor Roosevelt: Use Privilege to Sow Justice
  • 2.5 x 3.5 inch heavy duty wrapped magnet for Harriet Tubman: Fear Less
  • 2.5 x 3.5 inch heavy duty wrapped magnet for Maxine Waters: Reclaiming My Time
  • 2.5 x 3.5 inch heavy duty wrapped magnet for Tess Asplund: Show Up
Magnets on the Female Power Project Etsy site
Female Power Project, perSISTERS designs, special promotions, Uncategorized, What I'm Making

Some perSISTERS 2019 Calendar

I made a calendar with fourteen of the perSISTERS prints (includes cover) each in 8×10 plus beautiful grids for the days, and interesting dates relevant to women’s history in the USA. Now, since it is already 2019—today!—happy New Year!—I am putting it on sale for the next two weeks at my Female Power Project Etsy shop. Here is the link. The regular price is $28, but now you can buy as many as you want for $20 each with FREE US SHIPPING (until I run out). After the sale is over I will be matting the prints for individual sale. The calendar is printed in high-quality full-color offset lithography by a union printer here in Mount Rainier, Maryland. I am very happy with the print quality. Here is a gallery of the prints that are included in the calendar. You can read  about each of these designs on this page.