In the fall of 2011 Professional Women Photographers sponsored two photo trips to Cuba for US citizens. Each excursion, a week long, focused on Havana, Trinidad and Cienfuegos. On exhibit are images from the 22 participants.
*Summary June 2011.pdf
"But, thankfully, not all aspiring artists are queuing up to compete for their fifteen minutes of opportunistic fame. No Longer Empty and 25CPW, to cite two of the many artist-run ventures currently operating in New York, demonstrate the persistence, particularly among young artists, of the independent model, and its continuing capacity for reshaping contemporary art, its spaces, and its publics along alternate lines—not unlike the way things happened during the early years of 112 Workshop. These artists have taken advantage of the economic downturn to occupy vacant commercial spaces where they work collaboratively to stage exhibitions of their own work and the work of other artists with whom they want to engage in dialogue. They also mount public projects, thematic exhibitions that often address explicit political or social issues, and shows commenting critically on big-budget mainstream exhibitions.29 Here, in keeping with a noble and perhaps timeless artistic impulse, young artists are shaping spaces of exception, and in small, symbolic ways, remodeling cultural practices and social relations, to change the art world, if not the world, as we know it."
- -David Deitcher, “"Alternate Realities",” Artforum.com (Summer 2010).
