Artist Spotlight: Genevieve Cohn

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Genevieve Cohn cultivates inspiration through sustained attention. By moving through the world with an openness, she seeks to understand the potential in everything. It is not only her presence of mind that feeds her creativity, but a dedicated research practice as well. Her interests include the Women’s Land Army, the history of witches and witchcraft, feminist and queen separatist communities, and eco-feminist theory. Genevieve explains that “painting is the process through which the world gets translated. It holds complexity, by gathering time, thought, emotion, experience, and research into a single surface.” She credits a conversation with a college professor as the catalyst for a profound perception shift: she is an artist worth taking seriously. A member of Waltham Open Studios since 2019, Genevieve explains one of the benefits of being in community with other artists: “We are all pursuing a path that doesn't have any clear progression, so the more ways we are able to get together and dream and scheme and talk logistics and puzzle through problems, and commiserate over rejections, and imagine different versions of the future, the more real it all becomes.”

Where else can you find her work?

·       Davis Museum, Wellesley College as part of the exhibition “In Focus: Wellesley College Faculty Artists

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