Margaret (waitress), from Uprooted 2017
Work Ethic: Women in Rural Iowa is an exhibition of portraits from Uprooted, on display at Catich Gallery on the St Ambrose University campus in Davenport, Iowa until March 3. With this edit of the project, I aim to counter the gap in our collective awareness of the lived experience of rural Midwestern women, conveying in a straightforward and unromanticized manner a range of roles in the town. While portraiture is my genre of choice, scenes and landscapes serve to portray Belmond at this singular moment in the early 21st century. An opening reception on Friday 2/3 is free and open to the public and includes an artist’s talk.