Arts and Science Center for Southeast Arkansas

The Female Gaze exhibit illustrates how men have driven the conversation in the art world, inside the classroom and inside the museum in the past. It’s often a message of women as inferior, as objects to be sexualized, and it tells a story that crosses all races and touches on a number of female and racial issues.

That’s how Chaney Jewell, curator, talks about the driving message behind the 14-piece exhibit currently on display at the Arts and Science Center for Southeast Arkansas.

“It bothered me that our art history was based around a canon that was driven by my professors, all the white men,” Jewell, an art historian, said. “I began educating myself.”

She studied other cultures, women’s art and more. The exhibit runs through Saturday, May 15.

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