Satomi Kawai/Women: Hood

1. October 17 (Saturday)- 25 (Sunday) @ 237 Collective

Location: #217 Cherry Building, 329 10th Ave SE, Cedar Rapids, IA 522401

Opening reception: October 17 (Saturday) 6 pm – 8 pm.

Gallery Hours: 10/23 (Friday) 11 am – 3 pm, 10/24 (Saturday) and 25 (Sunday) 1:30 pm- 4 pm

2. November 1 (Sunday) @AritFactory

Location: 120 N Dubuque St, Iowa City, IA 52240

One-day popup show/ reception: November 1 (Sunday), 2 pm – 4 pm

• Refreshments are provided at the reception.

“Women: Hood” spent the summer working on a new collaborative performance with several community members, titled “RADIANT Cafe.” Filmmakers Auden Lincolen-Vogel and Philip Rabalais (2024-2025 BFF grantees) filmed it in late August, and the non-profit art organization ArtiFactory Iowa City hosted it. The footage has been edited and is ready for the upcoming shows both in Cedar Rapids and Iowa City.

During performance production, the collective had a wonderful opportunity to connect and create with other performers, filmmakers, and community participants.

Check back soon for the details of upcoming public events at 237 Collectiv in Cedar Rapids in mid-October and ArtiFactory in Iowa City in November.

Our First video screening event, “Her Story(s)” will happen with the support of the Big Field Funda through PS1.

Location: The Iowa City Public Library, Meeting Room D (123 S Linn St, Iowa City, IA 52240)

Date/ Time: Monday, March 30, 6 pm – 7 pm

This event is free and open to the public.

The Big Field Fund (BFF), supported by the Andy Warhol Foundation and administered by Iowa City arts nonprofit Public Space One (PS1), awards grants to artists and collaboratives to support publicity-engaged experimental, collaborative, and connective visual art projects in eastern Iowa.

https://www.bigfieldfund.org/bff-news-events/2025-26-grantees

This is an exciting announcement about our upcoming exhibition of the third edition of our project, hosted by Public Space One, Iowa City, IA, this fall, featuring a new interview clip of life stories by eight women, and a new body of work by the team and guest artists.    

OPENING RECEPTION with a live-performance, guest talk, and discussion:  

Saturday, October 18th, 6 pm – 8 pm

Public Space One, Closed House

538 S. Gilbert  St, Iowa City, Iowa 52240

We are going to have free public physical activities for self-care, including a Zumba Party and a Yoga session. — Date and time will be announced.  

I am excited to announce that I will be a part of a group exhibition of Iowa artists co-curated by Alyss Vernon and Kathy Edwards Hayslett. You will see a mix of Olson-Larsen Galleries artists and invited artists who employ media and techniques that challenge oversimplified notions of what it is to be an artist.  The word “hybrid” in this exhibition means that the fourteen Iowa-based artists in the exhibition work in different techniques or styles. Several of the exhibiting artists work in multiple media, such as painting and ceramics, or metal and fabric. Others combine techniques in the same work, and still others work in totally different styles all together.  

My artworks include jewelry (necklaces, and brooches) with meditational drawings and meixed midea paintings.  

OPENING RECEPTION:  Saturday, December 9th, 2pm – 5pm

Olson-Larsen Galleries

542 5th St, West Des Moines, Iowa 50265

info@olsonlarsen.com    515.277.6734

I am excited to announce that I will be a part of a group exhibition of Iowa artists co-curated by Alyss Vernon and Kathy Edwards Hayslett. You will see a mix of Olson-Larsen Galleries artists and invited artists who employ media and techniques that challenge oversimplified notions of what it is to be an artist.  The word “hybrid” in this exhibition means that the fourteen Iowa-based artists in the exhibition work in different techniques or styles. Several of the exhibiting artists work in multiple media, such as painting and ceramics, or metal and fabric. Others combine techniques in the same work, and still others work in totally different styles all together.  

My artworks include jewelry (necklaces, and brooches) with meditational drawings and meixed midea paintings.  

OPENING RECEPTION:  Saturday, December 9th, 2pm – 5pm

Olson-Larsen Galleries

542 5th St, West Des Moines, Iowa 50265

info@olsonlarsen.com    515.277.6734

We have been exploring how to be a woman through interviews.  And then our artist team creates our responses in the form of artworks. Based in Iowa City, Iiowa, USA,  the collective sought and recorded interviews with 7 diverse women living in Iowa and beyond. 

The Second  edition of “Women: hood”  online show  is up  here on my website under menu “womanhood 2nd”.    

OPENING RECEPTION

October 7th, Saturday, 6:00- 8:00 pm

Women’s Resource and Action Center, 

University of Iowa, Bowman House, 230 N Clinton St, Iowa City, IA 52245