Cultures all around the world have witch figures.  They may be helpful or wise older figures with magical powers in community myths and fairy tales.  They are likely to be quirky, challenging, often derided characters, or women branded by a community for "wrong doing".  The witch label is often indicative of entrenched fears of dominant, older, powerful or sexually alluring women and these images are passed down to our children in books, films and pictures. Mysoginist ideas about women are deeply embedded in many of these images.

This Halloween, FANS OF FEMINISM are inviting 13 artists to interpret how the associated ideas of wisdom, power, magic, evil, age, and difference, can be rethought conceptually in our feminist art; or to celebrate witches in all their conflicted glory. We want to know how the witches of legend fit with feminist reinterpretation.  And what about today's witches?  Women and children around the world are still being punished for "witchcraft" or sorcery - exiled from their communities and treated with violence.