Project

Real Women Project

Date

1998

Media

bronze

Client

Real Women Project

Location

Federal Way, WA
San Diego, CA
Waukesha, WI
Kansas City, MO

“Real Women” is a series of thirteen small bronze sculptures by T. J. Dixon. The series seeks both to unveil and to celebrate the diverse beauty of real women. This is a beauty to which we are often blinded by our harsh automatic judgments of our bodies based on how much they deviate from a ridged cultural ideal.

The dream behind the “Real Women” series is to use the power of art to challenge our conscious and unconscious adherence to the cultural ideal and to open our eyes to our individual beauty as women. This is not a new idea and this is not a new attempt, but the powerful and damaging images that we continually internalize require constant and powerful challenges to help women reclaim their self-confidence.

For more information on the Real Women Project you can visit their website at: www.realwomenproject.org