Flagstaff's Newest Resident Lingerie Artist

We are pleased to present our next major exhibition, Underneath It All: Desire, Power, Memory, and Lingerie. The traveling art exhibition features the work of ten female artists from throughout the United States who create or use underwear as objects or topics in their art. The exhibition explores many topics, including: body image, sexuality, empowerment, privacy, women's roles, equality, and many others, as lingerie embodies all of these issues in our society.


Underneath It All opens with an Artist Talk and Opening Reception on Saturday, January 12, 2013, beginning at 5:00 P.M. Four artists will be in attendance at the Opening to give talks and also to mingle with those in attendance.

We also welcome our first Resident Artist of 2013, Diane Bronstein!! Bronstein is the curator and one of the participating artists in the Underneath it All exhibition.

Flagstaff Cultural Partners was one of 788 not-for-profit national, regional, state, and local organizations nationwide to receive an NEA Art Works grant. FCP was recommended for a $40,000.00 grant to support a new program, the FCP Artist in Residency Program. This program will begin with Diane Bronstein's residency at the Coconino Center for the Arts. Bronstein will lead a hands-on Public Workshop on January 19, in addition to creating new work while she stays in Flagstaff over four weeks.

Bronstein creates paper "intimate apparel". Her pieces consist of nude figure drawings on 18" x 24" newsprint paper, which she then hand sews into bras, girdles, slips, camisoles and corsets. The pose of the artwork determines the size and style of the clothing.

Bronstein says: "I love the relationship between the drawings of the nudes, and the clothing. The juxtaposition of using underwear to reveal nude images reverses the order of underwear's intended use: naked skin covered by cloth." The provocative poses hint at what the wearer desires, fears, or imagines that the apparel reveals. Her pieces have shown around the country including New York City, Chicago, Denver, and regionally in New England. In late 2010, she had a solo exhibit at the Frame 301 Gallery at Monserrat College of Art, where she displayed 23 pieces of clothing on clotheslines. Diane is currently a graphic designer in Boston, MA.

For more information on the exhibition, workshop and corresponding events, visit the Underneath It All page.