Body/Image

Sonja Czekalski

Sonja Czekalski is a Rhode Island based interdisciplinary artist and MFA Graduate in Fine Arts from the Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Boston, MA. Her current work embeds itself in the fourth wave of American feminism meeting at the intersection of women’s craft, visceral memory, and sustainability. 

Czekalski is the Gallery Director of the historic Hera Gallery in Wakefield, RI. She teaches an array of studio art courses at various New England universities and museums. Czekalski exhibits both regionally and internationally. Recent exhibitions include the Newport Art Museum in Newport RI, Laconia Gallery in Boston MA, and at RANT Arts in Burnie, Tasmania. She is an artist member at Hera Gallery, a member of the North American Hand Papermakers, and a contributor to Witches Magazine. 

Website: sonjaczekalski.wixsite.com/portfolio

Instagram: @sonjaczekalski.art

Tracy Weisman

Tracy Weisman is a Rhode Island-based inter-disciplinary artist. A lifelong maker and lover of pattern and geometry, she began her artistic career after taking a quilting class as a young mother. Her quilted pieces were juried twice into the biennial “Sacred Threads” exhibition, appeared in the historic AIDS Memorial Quilt, have been published in The New Work of Our Hands and are in numerous private collections. 

Today, her practice covers a broad range of media and often involves collecting and sorting found objects. Finished pieces may be garments, sculpture, textiles or mixed-media and acrylic on board.

Her work has appeared nationally in group shows and addresses themes of memory, grief, body imageh, the American presidency, gun violence, and the clerical sexual abuse scandal in the Catholic Church. 

Website: tracyweisman.com

Instagram: @tracyweisman