upcoming grant deadline: 05/15/2024

upcoming grant deadline: 05/15/2024

Lynn Blackwell Denton

Lynn at the museum1

Lynn’s art started from a personal exploration of her identity as a female artist and evolved into 25 years of artistic collaboration with communities.  Her collaborations with communities often speak specifically to those in a particular neighborhood or situation. Lynn has collaborated with recovering addicts, women formerly receiving welfare subsidies, adolescents, and inner city school children in over 15 large scale, permanent installations in Philadelphia. These projects were meant to empower the communities Lynn worked in to express who they were through their art while inviting participants to experience their own creativity. In her personal work, she has continued to create installations, paintings and performances that address female identity. She is also increasingly drawn to fiction, specifically stories about women. Her screenplay/feature film project Pearl, currently in development, follows the journey of a young Southern woman who breaks with her past, finds her voice as an artist, and marches with Suffragists to win the vote for Georgia women.. Her screenplay, Pearl, is an expression of 40 years of exploration of themes around female identity and women standing for social change.

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