Many Entendres

Opening reception Fri., Oct. 15, 6-10 p.m., free; through Nov. 6, 1241 Carpenter St., midwivescollective.com.

by Laura Weber

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Published: Oct 13, 2010

[ visual art ]

We've all heard that a picture is worth a thousand words, but for the Midwives Collective, a socially conscious, women-run studio, words in a book are worth a room full of pictures. For their newest exhibit, the ladies assigned 37 artists a different sentence from a novel, asking them to contribute a photographic piece about what the phrase means to them. The catch? The artists weren't given the name of the novel — they'll find that out when the show opens Friday. "My sentence is, 'After three months, the psychiatrist turned to Jo and said, "It's not penis envy,"'" says artist Kelly Burkhardt. "[To me] the text is visually stimulating ... [and] touches on social movements." Though the submitted works are required to be 8-by-10-inch color photographs, human nature leaves plenty of space for surprises — especially if your sentence is about a dong.

Opening reception Fri., Oct. 15, 6-10 p.m., free; through Nov. 6, 1241 Carpenter St., midwivescollective.com.

Depth of Field
Body Mind and Hair
March of the Humannequins
Kaleidoscope
The Forest for the Trees
Where's the Beef?
True Fiction
The Word
Light Drift
HOMIESAPIENS/Atypical
The Big Sea