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Repository 219: Herstory | A Reel of Forgotten Female Artists
This March I decided to share snippets of research I’ve done on female creatives, specifically visual artists. The response through private messages and comments made clear that these women’s stories should be eligible for an homage of sorts, and their stories should not be buried in heavy art texts only to be accessed by the annointed art scholar. So in the spirit of sharing and fast output, here are the 21 women I discovered and rediscovered this month for Women’s…
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Repository 157: OYGBIV | Europe’s Pending Ban on Red
It’s strange how deeply colors seem to penetrate one, like scent.” – Dorothea Brooke in George Elliot’s Middlemarch Upon seeing the color red, the pulse rises 13.4 percent. It is the color of love, the first you see at birth and the last you see at death. You paint the town red, you put it on your lips, and it stops you in your tracks. Roses are red, violets are blue, if red is not on on my palette what…
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Repository 67: Accidental Vaginas & Art with Consequence
“Only parts of us will ever touch parts of others”, cut piece of larger painting by Catherine Haley Epstein Last night I had the pleasure of attending a book reading by Eve Ensler, playwright, author and activist on the occasion of her new book “In the Body of the World“. Her seminal work “The Vagina Monologues” rocked my world upon reading, and all of her philanthropic work through Vday and One Billion Rising is incredibly inspiring. Her most recent work…
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