Molly Larkey is a Los Angeles based artist whose work combines elements of language, painting, sculpture, architecture, and craft, using fluidity of form and function to propose alternatives to existing social systems. For Larkey, artworks are objects that convey meaning through their physical presence, and thereby impact the way that the body relates to the physical world. In her art, she suggests ways to imagine a world in which beneficial structures replace ones based in alienation and control. In 2019, she founded People’s Pottery Project, an artist-driven initiative whose mission is to empower formerly incarcerated women, trans, and nonbinary individuals through the arts.

Audre Lorde lived her life fully as a writer, activist, feminist, lesbian, mother, poet, black woman and a librarian, A Poet Laureate of the state of New York and a founder of Intersectional Feminism she believed that “…poetry was not a luxury but a vital necessity of our existence…” Audre was able to integrate her multiple identities and social activism into art. Despite anger, criticism, and danger, Ms. Lorde spoke her truth. “Women are powerful and dangerous.”