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French Women In Art: Reclaiming The Body Through Creation/Les Femmes Artistes Françaises : La Réclamation Du Corps À Travers La Création, Liatris Hethcoat

Student Scholar Symposium Abstracts and Posters

The research I have conducted for my French Major Senior Thesis is a culmination of my passion for and studies of both French language and culture and the history and practice of Visual Arts. I have examined, across the history of art, the representation of women, and concluded that until the 20^th century, these representations have been tools employed by the makers of history and those at the top of the patriarchal system, used to control women’s images and thus women themselves. I survey these representations, which are largely created by men—until the 20^th century. I discuss pre-historical …

Performing Ourselves At The Center, Shawn(Ta) Smith-Cruz

Publications and Research

This interview sits alongside an extended version edited for Amanda Curreri’s solo exhibition, The Calmest of Us Would be lunatics, which took place from January 21–May 8, 2016, at Rochester Art Center, in Rochester, Minnesota. Curreri dug through the archival collection of the Daughters of Bilitis, the first lesbian organization in the country, and their journal, The ladder, at the Tretter Collection in LGBT Studies at the University of Minnesota. The exhibition is titled after a line in Emily Dickinson’s 1877 letter to Elizabeth Holland which reads, “Had we the first intimation of the Definition of Life, the calmest of …

Encore: University Of Tennessee Painting And Drawing Nashville Alumni (Exhibition Catalogue), Eric Cagley, Rebecca Digiovanna

Ewing Gallery of Art & Architecture

Encore features the work of eleven undergraduate and graduate alumni of the University of Tennessee’s Painting and Drawing program that currently live and work in Nashville, Tennessee. The artwork in Encore highlights nearly 40 years of diverse work that has come out of the Painting and Drawing program.

Exhibiting artists were: Brandon Donahue, Sterling Goller-Brown, Mary Addison Hackett, Briena Harmening, Jodi Hays, David King, Jonathan Lisenby, Rob Matthews, Lakesha Moore, Terry Thacker, and Lain York.