DWAN is a feminist arts and heritage organisation, founded by Jenna C. Ashton and Kevin Malone. DWAN supports women to identify, collect, disseminate and celebrate their cultural heritage and practices through creative and digital interventions. We use feminist curatorial and archival methods to support women’s active citizenship and self-empowerment, using cultural heritage and arts archives as a basis for finding solutions to inequalities in communities.
Through our focus on equity, equality and empowerment, our work directly contributes to supporting the diversification of heritage-making, heritage skilling, and the visibility of marginalised heritage.
Core activities:
Co-creating our digital space that functions as an archive, educational resource and alternative media outlet, supporting the connectivity, campaigns and cultural resistance and resilience of female practitioners and organisations.
Collaborative and creative feminist archival and heritage projects.
Delivering educational public engagement events around arts, heritage and feminist practice.
Since 2015, DWAN has supported 250 artists, curators and archivists, digital technologists, women’s community groups and activists to co-research deficiencies, and new approaches for digital and material archiving and curation. We have engaged 60 international partners and organisations in identifying areas of excellence within feminist museological practice.
