On Display By Raw And Radical - Conversations With Extraordinary Women In The Arts

The founders of “FATart” talk about inspiration, intersectionality, and why women artists should charge more. I’m very pleased to welcome Ursina Gabriela Roesch and Mark Damon Harvey to the Raw and Radical podcast. Ursina and Mark are the co-founders of The Femme Artist Table (FATart), which is Swiss organization devoted to elevating women artists’ presence, voice, visibility, attention, and acceptance within the art world. The inspiration behind FATart “The Femme Artist Table project came from this experience that I am a woman in the art business and I don’t have the same opportunities that men have,” Ursina says. She wanted the project to be inclusionary—a place where women could come together, sit at the same table, and talk about art and the business of art—which inspired the name Femme Artist Table and naturally led to the slogan. For Mark, who was already involved in a number of cultural and racial movements, the concept of FATart was a given. “For me, in the sense of intersectionality and cultural int