YOU ARE INVITED! When: Saturday, 7 March 2015 What: improving Wikipedia’s coverage of women in art (and increasing the number of contributors who identify as female) Where: everywhere (and at … Continue reading Art+Feminism Wikipedia Edit-a-Thon
Toying with History by Colleen Wampole Abstract and Introduction How history repeats itself Quantity of representation Quality of representation Means of representation Conclusion and Works Cited
[This is the final part of a thesis paper about the series Toying with History. Here is the master post.] Conclusion I began this artistic inquiry by asking whether or … Continue reading Toying with History: Conclusion and Works Cited
[This is part five of a thesis paper about the series Toying with History. Here is the master post.] Knowing history might free us from repeating it unconsciously, but it … Continue reading Toying with History: Means of Representation
[This is part four of a thesis paper about the series Toying with History. Here is the master post.] Omission inflicts all the evils of censorship: it stifles first action, … Continue reading Toying with History: Quality of Representation
[This is part three of a thesis paper about the series Toying with History. Here is the master post.] Before familiarizing ourselves with the quality of women’s role models, let … Continue reading Toying with History: Quantity of Representation
[This is part two of a thesis paper about the series Toying with History. Here is the master post.] In any critical comparison of the present and the past, it … Continue reading Toying with History: How history repeats itself
[This is the first installment of my final MFA thesis paper. The master post is available here.] Abstract I use my paintings to playfully invite serious conversations. The series Toying … Continue reading Toying with History: Abstract and Introduction
I have read just enough about the women’s suffrage movement to find this video fascinating. The notion of force-feeding in particular is one that always shocks the breath out of … Continue reading Bad Romance parody: early women’s suffrage movement
[ Last summer my MFA class was tasked with predicting what in five years we would describe as the quintessential art of 2014. What, with the benefit of hindsight, will … Continue reading Predicting the future: A spectrum of irony
[ NSFW…because it involves bodies and that apparently rates a warning. ] Body image is a topic that haunts my paper doll series. Paper dolls are, after all, predicated on … Continue reading Body image
My most recent painting is titled 112 Supreme Court Justices. (More on this image at the end of the post.) As it did so many of us did this … Continue reading SCOTUS and women
Beth Scher, a recent alumna of the University of the Arts MFA program, just had her work featured in the Huffington Post. As Scher states on her website: “In my … Continue reading Beth Scher
The D*sney princess dolls spark some fascinating conversations. (It’s part of why I repainted them three times.) I keep second-guessing this set of costumes. I’m on my third draft, so … Continue reading Doll collection: Princesses
The interactive dress-up doll feature on this Victorian Steampunk novel site is an interesting update to paper dolls. For those who don’t know genre fiction like the back of … Continue reading Digital paper dolls
Gustave Courbet‘s L’origine du monde is arguably the quintessential example of the male gaze in art history. The reaction to Deborah de Robertis’s performance art in the Musée d’Orsay powerfully … Continue reading Deborah de Robertis and Courbet (NSFW)
[ part 2 of the essay which began “To Thine Own Self Be True” ] Collection #1 ”Shades of Santayana! Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat … Continue reading Confronting and kowtowing to the canon
[ Then again, consider the source. ] Selfies are easily dismissed as narcissistic or kitschy, but the urge to self-define is neither new nor unimportant. The convention of using physical … Continue reading To thine own self be true
Some things I’ve looked at lately just didn’t fit in my recent papers. That doesn’t make them unimportant. Language I love words, so this blurb on gendered double-standards in English … Continue reading Links barrage
