Tiffany Lee Brown is an American writer and artist. She is from

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, currently living and working in Central Oregon. For many years she was known for her work in

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. Author of ''A Compendium of Miniatures'' (Tiger Food Press, 2007), Brown is an editor at ''

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'' magazine. She writes for the '' Nugget Newspaper'' in

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, which publishes her column "In the Pines". She also edits the newspaper's section for younger readers, writers, and artists, "Kids in Print". Brown is a partner in Kid Made Camp, which educates youth in hands-on creativity, journalism, and ethical business practices. She was formerly an editor at ''2GQ'' (''2 Gyrlz Quarterly''), ''Anodyne'' magazine, Signum Press, and '' FringeWare Review''. Her writing has appeared in ''

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'', ''

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'', ''Oregon Humanities'', ''

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'', ''

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'', and ''

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''. She pseudonymously co-founded the dUdU art collective. In the 2000s Brown was associated with art movements described as social practice, participatory art, social-relational, and personal-emotional participatory. Her performances and interdisciplinary pieces have been presented by

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's JAW Festival, Performance Arts NorthWest, the Enteractive Language Festival,

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's Dada Ball, the

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, and the Dark Arts Festival. In the early 1990s, Brown was on the staff of ''

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'' in

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. Her largest interdisciplinary work is "The Easter Island Project," encompassing

participatory art Participatory art is an approach to making art which engages public participation in the creative process, letting them become co-authors, editors, and observers of the work. This type of art is incomplete without viewers' physical interaction. It i ...

installation art Installation art is an artistic genre of three-dimensional works that are often site-specific and designed to transform the perception of a space. Generally, the term is applied to interior spaces, whereas exterior interventions are often called ...

, video, writing, musical composition, and performance, created and presented throughout 2007–2013. The Easter Island Project's "art gatherings", installations, and performances occurred at venues in New York, Seattle, Portland, Oakland,

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, and in several Pacific Northwest locations. Inara Verzemnieks wrote in ''

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'': "As an artist, she had always sought to be fearless, to tackle difficult subjects, to provoke discussion. 'With Tiffany, things are not theoretical," says Stephanie Snyder, curator and director of the Douglas F. Cooley Memorial Art Gallery at

Reed College Reed College is a private liberal arts college in Portland, Oregon. Founded in 1908, Reed is a residential college with a campus in the Eastmoreland neighborhood, with Tudor-Gothic style architecture, and a forested canyon nature preserve at ...

. 'With her, it's always about the lived issues.'" Brown has been affiliated with the dUdU art collective since the early 1990s. She chaired the Board of Directors for the non-profit organization 2 Gyrlz Performative Arts, and Director of the non-profit

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since 2009.

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New Oregon Arts & Letters
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