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HelenaDomenic
@helenadomenic.bsky.social
Artist, writer, educator, witch
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For my friends participating in April 19th protests, I am offering up these two images that I am happily contributing for free if you wish to print them out and put them on your signs. (Although if you wanna buy me a cuppa, my venmo is @Helena-Domenic).
April 19, 2025 at 12:32 AM
I’ve been on a Facebook break for a few days. My mind feels clearer already.
February 22, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Day 28 of 30 of art as protest. Please check out Debbie Chapnick’s page for more art! Today’s artist is Alison Saar, daughter of Betye Saar who I featured awhile back. Her work chronicles the experiences of black women while including spiritual and magical imagery.
February 17, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Day 26 of 30 in art as protest. Be sure to check out Debbie Chapnick’s page, too! Today’s art is from Artemisia Gentileschi. She has quite a life story, which I hope you will google. She is perhaps the first Feminist artist! This is her “Judith Slaying Holofernes.”
February 15, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Day 25 of 30 in Art as Protest
Please also check out Debbie Chapnick’s page today! Today I have chosen Renee Cox, who is known for using herself as a model for images of black women as Super Heroes. This is her 1988 work, “Chillin’ with Liberty.”
February 14, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Greer Lankton was known for her life-like dolls. All of the dolls are portraits of her friends and refer to gender topics. The artist always enjoyed playing with dolls. As her parents were taking the toys away, deeming them “inappropriate” for a boy, she began sewing puppets from cloth scraps.
February 13, 2025 at 1:16 PM
Day 23 of 30 of art as protest. Please check Debbie Chapnick’s page for her art of the day! Today we have Emma Amos, who is known for incorporating African fabric into her paintings. This is “My Green Space,” acrylic on linen and African fabric borders, 59.25″ × 41.75″, 2011.
February 12, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Day 22 of 30 of art os protest. Be sure to check out Debbie Chapnick’s page for more art! Today’s art is Judy Chicago is known for producing collaborative, large scale works. “In the Beginning” is part of a 30 foot long drawing in prismacolor pencils.
February 11, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Day 21 of 30 of art as protest. Today’s art is Egyptian Rocket Goddess by Audrey Flack. Flack believes art should be accessible and understandable to everyone, so she works in a realistic style. Her Goddess sculptures are imaginings of goddesses for modern times.
February 10, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Day 20 of 30 in Art as Protest. Please check Debbie Chapnick’s page for more art! Today’s artist is Faith Wilding. A fierce eco-feminist activist, Wilding aims to encourage her viewers to reflect on their own relationship with nature.
Today’s art is “Three Dragons, One Goddess.”
February 9, 2025 at 8:33 PM
Day 17 of art as protest: thanks Denise Romano Bright for this one! Today’s art is titled “Critical Race Theory,” by Jonathon Harris. Please be sure to check Debbie Chapnick’s page for her art of the day.
February 6, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Day 16 of 30 days of art as protest. Be sure to check out Debbie Chapnick’s page for her choice today. Today’s art is “Naver de nuevo,” or “To be Reborn,” from 1960. She was considered one of three “witches” of the Surrealists. (The other two were Leonor Fini and Leonora Carrington).
February 5, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Day 15 of 30 of art as protest. Please also see Debbie Chapnick’s page to see her artist. Today’s art comes from Mickalene Thomas, “Le Dejeuner sur l’herbe.” Her work is mixed media and sends the message that black women too can recline and rest, white women have done doing throughout art history.
February 4, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Day 13 of 30 of art as protest. Today’s artist is Betye Saar. She creates assemblage work in which she brings together a variety of materials to create a single work. This one is Adori from 1975.
February 2, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Day 12 of Art as Protest. Please be sure to visit Debbie Chapnick’s page to see what she has posted. Today’s art is from Barbara Kruger who uses words as well as images to convey her message.
February 1, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Day 12 of 30 in art as protest posts. Please see Debbie Chapnick’s page for her art of the day. Today’s artist is Chief Lady Bird, herself of Chippewa and Potawatomi descent. In her work lives the experiences and struggles of Indigenous womxn, including the expression and ownership of sexuality.
January 31, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Day 10 of 30 in Art as Protest. Be sure to also see Debbie Chapnick’s feed! Today’s art is from Nairobi born Wangechi Mutu whose work explores gender, race, and environmental issues. This work is “You Are My Sunshine,” collage painting on paper, 24” x 36,” from 2015.
January 29, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Day 9 of 30 in my art as protest posts. Today’s artist is Evelyn deMorgan, one of the lesser known Pre-Raphaelites. This is called “Medea,” a priestess of Hekate, using a potion to try and win back Jason.
Please check out Debbie Chapnick’s page, too!
January 28, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Day 8 of 30 in 30 Days of Art Posting. Please also visit Debbie Chapnick’s page to see what she’s posted! Today’s artist is Nigerian born Toyin Ojih Odutola. This is Josiah & Keizuke in pastel and charcoal on paper, dimensions 68”x 51” - I believe for each panel.
January 27, 2025 at 3:58 PM
I’m late with today’s work of art as protest because I have been dealing with pain issues. Today’s artwork is by Faith Ringgold and is titled “Dancing at the Louvre.” It’s about breaking the rules - we’re not supposed to dance in museums!
January 26, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Day #6 of 30 in my art as protest posts. Today I have chosen one of my favorite artists, Ann McCoy. She draws inspiration from dreams and alchemy. Today’s image is titled Hermaphroditus and was completed in 2010. It’s colored pencil on paper & canvas, and measures 108” x 106.”
January 25, 2025 at 4:37 PM
It’s Day 5 of my protest via art! Be sure to check out Debbie Chapnick’s timeline too! Today’s artwork is Napoleon Crossing the Alps by Kehinde Wiley. Wiley is literally inserting black people into the art history narrative with his paintings.
January 24, 2025 at 1:29 PM
On Day #4 of posting art as a means of protest, I am presenting the work of Mati Klarwein. This work is called Chez Sphinx and he painted it in 1973 using both egg tempera and oils.
January 23, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Day #3 of posting art in protest of the current administration. Please check out Debbie Chapnick’s page to see her choice for today.

Today’s artist is the amazing Leonora Carrington. She was one of the last surviving Surrealists and the founder of the Women’s liberation movement in Mexico.
January 22, 2025 at 4:55 PM
January 17, 2025 at 8:03 PM