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Tuesday Smillie
Tuesday Smillie (born 1981 in Boston, Massachusetts) is an American interdisciplinary artist based in Brooklyn, New York. Her work focuses on trans-feminist politics and the aesthetics of protest. Smillie has been recognized for her reinterpretation of protest banners through traditional craft materials. Writer Johanna Fateman describes work like Smillie's ''Street Transvestites 1973'' (2015) as "ornate, meticulously sewn and painted trans-liberation banners" that "could not get their radical point across more lovingly." Life and work Smillie holds a BFA from Oregon College of Art and Craft with a concentration in Book Arts. Many of Smillie's collections take inspiration from feminist science fiction author Ursula K. Le Guin, primarily her novel ''The Left Hand of Darkness'' about gender-fluid inhabitants of the planet Gethen. Smillie has held solo exhibitions at the Rose Art Museum, Participant Inc, and her work has been included in group exhibitions at the Rubin Museum of Ar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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The arts are a very wide range of human practices of creativity, creative expression, storytelling and culture, cultural participation. They encompass multiple diverse and plural modes of thinking, doing and being, in an extremely broad range of List of art media, media. Both highly dynamic and a characteristically constant feature of human life, they have developed into innovative, stylized and sometimes intricate forms. This is often achieved through sustained and deliberate study, training and/or theorizing within a particular tradition, across generations and even between civilizations. The arts are a vehicle through which human beings cultivate distinct social, cultural and individual identities, while transmitting values, impressions, judgments, ideas, visions, spiritual meanings, patterns of life and experiences across time and space. Prominent examples of the arts include: * visual arts (including architecture, Ceramic art, ceramics, drawing, filmmaking, painting, ph ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
