Denise Doyle is the Fine Art Curator for 3 Girls Theatre Company. Denise is a Bay Area native, an artist and visual storyteller who is deeply influenced by the Divine feminine. She expresses her creative juice through multiple forms of mixed-media, including assemblage and altar creation, and loves to work with symbols and archetypes. Denise has a BFA in Photography from Academy of Art College in San Francisco, and an MA in Transformative Arts from John F. Kennedy University in Berkeley, California. She also holds a certification as a teacher of Faces of the Soul Maskmaking from her mentors Kaleo Ching and Elise Durlam-Ching. Denise loves teach art-making and sharing with individuals and groups, facilitating students in creative process and curating groups of artists for exhibition. She finds creative inspiration while dreaming, singing, and dancing with her Women’s Sacred Dance group. Denise lives with her family in a magical garden cottage in Oakland, California.

<b>Statement:</b> The image I’ve shared is a work-in-progress that is part of a series of pastel & acrylic on paper and canvas that I will be showing in the festival. My work is taking a new direction. I’ve been struggling lately with the injustices to women in our healthcare and educational systems. Lady Justice is the counterpoint to Lady Liberty, the planetary goddess Eris in her current embodied identity as the revolutionary woman of our time. My work right now is about who Lady Liberty is today, whom she embodies as an archetype of the living, breathing modern revolutionary woman. There is a quickening happening in the womb of the earth, the stirrings of a passion for justice and the rise of the Feminine that has never been seen before our now-times. There is a movement, a rising tide of brave women and allies of all ages and forms, standing up in the face of a poisonous, slowly dying partriarchy. Lady Justice, the Goddess Eris, is throwing down the gauntlet. She’s lancing the boil in order that mother earth and the feminine, embodied in you and I, be healed, honored and revered as sacred.