Body // Power

Join Athena Project for an extension of its Virtual Art Show: Body // Power featuring work by 30+ women and nonbinary artists from January 15 -31, 2026. During its inaugural opening run, the exhibition welcomed over 400 visitors.

Body // Power is a multidisciplinary exhibition featuring work by women and nonbinary artists who are fighters and survivors.

All of the work explores themes inherent in reproductive justice, consent, gender-based violence, and the reclaiming of bodily narratives. Artwork has been gathered throughout the year from our ongoing social media campaigns, #ReproductiveJustice and #ArtHeals, and is now showcased for the first time in an immersive gallery experience.

The virtual setting offers greater opportunities to explore this work in more personal ways – with mindfulness and intentionality. Here, the viewer will find visual art, music, and poetry created by women and nonbinary artists that converge at the intersection of personal trauma and political urgency. As you “walk” through our virtual gallery spaces, you’re invited to explore the intersection of these two themes – Body and Power – how they converge, diverge, and ultimately inspire healing through creative expression. By embracing a virtual format, the exhibition also seeks to provide accessibility and invite broader participation and deeper reflection, even across geographies.

You will witness these artists assert their agency, demonstrating that art acts as both refuge and resistance, as protest and shelter, as rebellion and comfort. Healing, in this context, is not soft or passive; it is both fierce and furious. You may find the messages in some of these pieces painful; some images may make you want to look away. Because of this, these voices of rebellion and protest are too often silenced; their art too frequently erased. We at Athena Project believe in the crucial importance of amplifying and illuminating these messages. In doing so, it is our mission to lend our light to the healing power of these works.

We invite you to lean in and experience this art, taking your time with the pieces that move you – perhaps gaining new knowledge that you are not alone in this complicated world; that others know the conflicts you yourself have experienced or that you experience right now. We hope that you will share our conviction that art can and will heal our fury, and that this exhibit helps you move forward along that path. ~ Athena Project

Artist List: Bailey Elora, Diana Wright, Essence Mona’, Fengar Gael, Georgia Reash, Jenny Footle, Jordan Yewey, Melissa Ivey, Pamela Nocerino, Shada Vega (NocturnalVeilArt), Julie Kitzes, Alysa Adkins, Amanda Phingbodhipakkiya, Amir Khadar, Annie Howe, Caitlin Blunnie (@LiberalJane), D Garrett, Ebin Lee, Grace Pramuk, Kate Laster, Olivia Dorencz, Savanna Goodman, Shannon Downey, Susan McNeff Skokan, Tiffany Budzisz, Wednesday Holmes, Sandra Cruze, Whitney Bradshaw, Jessica Loving, and Carrie Makenna.