Pomona Professor of English Prageeta Sharma joins efforts with the Claremont Lewis Museum of Art in “She Opens the Door: Women Artists and Writers Shape Language and Space,” curated by Chloe Martinez, poet-in-residence and Claremont McKenna lecturer in religious studies. Combining poetry and various mediums of art, the exhibition gathers artists from Claremont and the greater Los Angeles area who challenge inherited ideas of ‘women’s work,examining how women’s labor and craft has been devalued as art and work.
