Public Opening Receptions:

About the exhibition:

In 2020, as the Covid-19 pandemic swept the globe, Linda Dubin Garfield cancelled her travel plans and instead spent time reminiscing about her past travels. In a typical year, Garfield travels during the summer months and returns home to create artworks using the impressions left by these landscapes and cultures. Garfield has spent decades creating mixed media collages inspired by her travels to 37 countries in every continent. Instead of traveling this year, she spent her time working on a new body of mixed media work that reflects on the memories associated with her past expeditions. Footprints: Travel Landscapes is a selection of new work by the artist, curated like a map that touches each of the 7 continents she has visited. 

Linda Dubin Garfield’s abstract and dynamic works use multiple layers of ink that waver between background and foreground  to create a fusion of surface design and abstract expressionism. Using hand-pulled printmaking techniques, photography, collage and digital imaging, she explores the mystery of memory and the magic of place, inviting viewers to observe the world through her “mind’s eye”.

Footprints: Travel Landscapes opens at Da Vinci Art Alliance in Gallery 2 on May 13th, 5-8pm with an additional virtual opening reception on May 19th at 6pm on Zoom. The exhibition will be on view in the gallery by appointment (masks required, timed-entry) and as a recorded video tour on the Da Vinci Art Alliance website. Linda Dubin Garfield will be donating 30% of the artwork sales from this exhibition to benefit the organization Women International Leaders which invests in underserved women globally with women’s education, health, social/political leadership and self-sufficiency projects.

the Artist:

Linda Dubin Garfield is an award-winning printmaker, the founder of ARTsisters and smART business consulting, and sits on the board of several arts nonprofits. She also offers art-making workshops at several organizations like Philadelphia Parks and Recreation Centers for Older Adults, Simpson House and Atria Senior Living. Linda Dubin Garfield has hosted charitable birthday celebrations since the untimely death of her dear friend 15 years ago. In lieu of birthday gifts each year, Garfield collects donations for nonprofits in the arts and who promote women’s leadership. She has collected over $15,000 for various charities since 2006.  

About wil:

Women International Leaders (WIL) invest in underserved women globally who take the lead in becoming self-sufficient, elevating their families and communities. WIL accomplishes this mission by providing:

• Microfinance funding and support services for the lowest-income women to start and grow their businesses. WIL has funded 20 village banks in 16 countries.

• Grants to grass-roots nonprofit and NGOs that serve vulnerable women and girls in countries where poverty is a way of life. WIL has supported more than 50 education, health, economic and social development projects by grass roots organizations in more than 20 countries to empower girls and women around the world.

• Educational Programs that focus on women’s economic, health or political issues ensuring that WIL members are aware of the complex issues affecting global poverty.

• Travel Opportunities that help with our understanding of the difficulties faced by women in these communities.

• Service Committee projects complement WIL’s financial support of organizations that empower vulnerable women in low income communities around the world through hands-on service projects. WIL members come together locally to impact globally.