Pandora's BoxX Project:
A Panel Discussion In Celebration of Women Artists and Cultural Visionaries
Saturday, March 14th | 3:00pm
Registration: $15
'Pandora’s BoxX Project: A Panel Discussion In Celebration of Women Artists and Cultural Visionaries' brings together four women from the project’s multigenerational network of artists and art workers for a candid conversation about what it means to build a creative life over time. Moving from beginnings to visibility and survival, and ultimately to legacy, the panel will explore the influences that first sparked their paths, the realities of sustaining a practice, and the ways artists shape cultural memory for the generations that follow.
Parking onsite is extremely limited and the use of rideshare is strongly encouraged.
About Pandora’s BoxX Project
www.pandorasboxxproject.com
Pandora’s BoxX is a photographic portrait project by Grace Roselli bringing together 360 portraits of women artists and cultural practitioners—cis, trans, and non-binary—who have shaped the visual arts from the 1960s to the present. Each portrait begins with a direct encounter in the subject’s own environment: an act of showing up and witnessing that cannot be outsourced or substituted. Sitters look directly into the camera and select the image that represents them, ensuring the portrait reflects how they wish to be seen. Spanning six decades of creative labor, the project forms an intergenerational record that asks who is remembered, who is left out, and how histories are built. These artists and visionaries are not only witnesses to art history—they are its authors.
Moderator
Grace Roselli
Photo Credit: Grace Roselli, Pandora's BoX Project
www.graceroselli.com | www.pandorasboxxproject.com
Grace Roselli (Brooklyn, NY) is a multidisciplinary artist whose four-decade practice spans photography, performance, painting, and printmaking, exploring the stories carried by our bodies and faces. Her work moves between staged encounters and physical image-making, investigating how the self becomes both witness to and instrument of what a culture remembers, desires, and forgets.
Roselli received a BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design and studied at the Accademia di Belle Arti in Venice under Emilio Vedova. She attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally, including solo exhibitions at Anita Friedman Fine Arts, New York, and Pentimenti Gallery, Philadelphia, and group exhibitions at the Alternative Museum, New York, and the Gemeente Museum, Helmond, Netherlands. Her book Is the Room was published by Jaded Ibis Press in 2013, and her work has been featured in publications including The New York Times, Artnet, and ArtCritical, among others. From 2015–2017 she created Naked Bike, a photographic series documenting women motorcyclists, exhibited at MotorGrrl in Brooklyn.
She has received a Brooklyn Arts Council Grant (2024), a New York State Council on the Arts Award (2023), the Barbara Deming Memorial Fund Grant and a Puffin Foundation Award (2022). Pandora’s BoxX Project is fiscally sponsored by the New York Foundation for the Arts.
In 2018 she launched Pandora’s BoxX Project, an ongoing photographic portrait archive of women, trans, and non-binary artists and cultural practitioners active since the 1960s. The project has been presented at Carney Gallery at Regis College and through talks and panels at Artists Talk On Art, Zürcher Gallery, the Brooklyn Public Library, the West Chelsea Festival of Art, and Silver Eye Center for Photography. A new video work from the project will premiere at Broodworks, Brooklyn, in 2026.
Panelists
Martha Jackson Jarvis
Photo Credit: Grace Roselli, Pandora's BoX Project
www.marthajacksonjarvis.com
Martha Jackson Jarvis explores form, structure, and scale through a multimedia practice that spans mosaic and painting to earthen sculptural materials such as stone, copper, and sand. Her multifaceted work challenges viewers to find the extraordinary in cultural and physical environments, conjuring themes of ritual and repetition while honoring cycles of renewal, degradation, and transformation.
Raised in Lynchburg, Virginia, and Philadelphia, Jarvis lives and works in Washington, D.C. She received a BFA from Temple University and an MFA from Antioch University. Her work has been presented in solo and group exhibitions throughout the United States and internationally, including a solo exhibition at the Baltimore Museum of Art (2023). Earlier exhibitions include the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. (1996); the Studio Museum in Harlem (1993); the Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow (1991); the Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, Winston-Salem (1990); and the Anacostia Museum, Washington, D.C. (1987).
Jarvis has received numerous honors, including a Creative Capital Grant, a Virginia Groot Fellowship, a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, and the Lila Wallace Arts International Travel Grant. In 2023, she received the James A. Porter Colloquium Lifetime Achievement Award. Her work is held in the collections of the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; the Baltimore Museum of Art; the Philadelphia African American Museum; and the Experimental Printmaking Institute at Lafayette College. She is currently working on public commissions for UPMC Presbyterian Hospital, Pittsburgh, and Virginia Theological Seminary, Alexandria.
Zoe Charlton
Photo Credit: Grace Roselli, Pandora's BoX Project
www.zoecharlton.com
Zoë Charlton (Baltimore, MD) creates large-scale figure drawings, collages, installations, and animations that position the body in dialogue with social and symbolic objects—including landscapes—each carrying layered meanings shaped by history, memory, and cultural context. Her work explores material inheritance, representation, and the assembly of identity through visual language drawn from American domestic and cultural life.
Charlton received her MFA from the University of Texas at Austin and has participated in residencies at Artpace (TX), McColl Center for Art + Innovation (NC), the Ucross Foundation (WY), the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture (ME), and the Patterson Residency at the Creative Alliance (MD). Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally at venues including the Studio Museum in Harlem, Contemporary Art Museum Houston, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, the Delaware Contemporary, the Harvey B. Gantt Center for African-American Arts + Culture, Zach?ta National Gallery of Art (Poland), and Haas & Fischer Gallery (Switzerland). Her work is held in the permanent collections of The Phillips Collection, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, the Baltimore Museum of Art, the Birmingham Museum of Art, and the Studio Museum in Harlem.
She received a Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant and a Rubys Artist Grant. Collaboration and socially engaged practice are central to her work; she co-founded sindikit (2016–2022) and Kindred Creative Residence + Agro-ForesT (CRAFT), and co-edited Out of Place: Artists, Pedagogy, and Purpose (2021).
Charlton served two terms on the Maryland State Arts Council and currently serves on the boards of the Washington Project for the Arts, Threewalls, and The Phillips Collection. She is Professor of Art and Director of the School of Art at George Mason University.
Betsy Johnson
Photo Credit: Grace Roselli, Pandora's BoX Project
Betsy Johnson is an Assistant Curator at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden with responsibility for overseeing the photography and works-on-paper collections. At the Hirshhorn, she has curated Tony Lewis: Anthology 2014–2016 (2018); The Evidence Room (2019); Feel the Sun in Your Mouth: Recent Acquisitions (2019); Toyin Ojih Odutola: A Countervailing Theory (2021); One with Eternity: Yayoi Kusama in the Hirshhorn Collection (2022); A Window Suddenly Opens: Contemporary Photography in China (2022), Jessica Diamond: Wheel Of Life (2023), Basquiat x Banksy (2024), and Revolutions: Art from the Hirshhorn Collection, 1860-1960 (2024), which she co-curated with Marina Isgro. Johnson completed her B.A. in Integrative Arts and M.A. in Art History at the Pennsylvania State University and is ABD in the Department of Art History and Archaeology at the University of Maryland, currently writing her dissertation on American conceptual artist Robert Barry.
Murjoni Merriweather
Photo Credit: Grace Roselli, Pandora's BoX Project
www.mvrjoni.com
Murjoni Merriweather is a sculptor and video artist from Maryland whose work explores Black culture, identity, and representation through clay portraiture and moving image. Drawing on real people and lived experience, she challenges stereotypes and rejects narrow European beauty standards historically imposed on people of color. Her work celebrates the natural diversity of Black bodies while fostering connection, reflection, and self-acceptance, grounded in the belief that art can help dismantle prejudice and uplift Black communities.
Merriweather studied at the Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA). Since her first exhibition in 2019, The Radical Act of Taking Up Space at VisArts, Rockville, Maryland, she has participated in numerous group exhibitions across the United States and internationally. Her work has been presented at the Rubell Museum, Miami; the Baltimore Museum of Art; and the Akron Art Museum, including Recent Acquisitions (2024) and She Said, She Said: Contemporary Women Artists(2025). She has also exhibited in Sweden. Merriweather’s work is held in the collection of the Rubell Museum.
