(In)Visible Women and their Art Network

This is how a project was conceived; it debuted on March 7, 2018, on a digital platform, but emerged through a desire for justice and visibility two years earlier. It would become a window through which to broaden the possibility of showing the world the talent and value of women artists.

The Club de Las Mujeres In Visibles was created by Eva Tamargo, a producer of events, shows, and theatre with almost 20 years of experience and current director of the club. The project began with 25 creators and currently features projects and works by more than 130 women in different disciplines, including music, collage, illustration, painting, and photography.

Eva had the ingenuity to bring together her strengths and talents to promote the art of women whose dreams had previously vanished in front of a closed cultural circle in which opportunities were fleeting and few.

With clear values of equality, conciliation, promotion, and cooperation, the project continues to gain followers, including the Mexican artist Idalia Candela who, upon meeting Eva, decided to work with the founder’s idea and vision to give the Club an image.

Within three years, the Club de Las Mujeres In Visibles has become a benchmark in its area of Spain; it has garnered the attention of mass media, the support of private companies, and, above all, received international recognition.

The future of the organization is clearly outlined by the following goals: to continue the fight for equality that the world has undertaken, to continue the work of expansion and to consider the ways in which art can be taken to unexpected places, to place the exhibitions in everyday spaces, and bettering the environment without abandoning the presence in them.

Furthermore, the Club insists on letting art touch hearts, but also consciences, on promoting equality by favouring working, professional, and social conditions, and on creating community and networks that allow the dissemination of the work and talents of creative women.

Faced with a world that seems paralyzed, these women stay at the forefront of the movement by creating projects, exhibitions, and calls for new artists. In addition to the HARTE Foundation, they have decided to artistically take over hospitals, organizing exhibitions on themes of well-being and optimism. Such displays are truly genuine and well-deserved tributes to the health personnel who are waging the exhausting battle against COVID-19.

The Club de Las Mujeres In Visibles aims to promote and awaken the interest of citizens in culture, and this impact cannot only be made by a few; indeed, these determined women have gone around the world to create and weave networks with European and Latin American people from whom they receive daily gratitude for the initiative and who expressive desire to be a part of the Club. 

The result of the efforts and work of Spanish women artists and creators is no longer a dream relegated to oblivion: it has become an everyday, tangible reality that awakens concern and desire in different latitudes where art and creativity are the rising sun of women, many of whom probably still live in the dark and see the Club de Las Mujeres In Visibles as a new reason to continue creating.

By Jeika Gotera