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It was an unusually warm Sunday in March. As I waited for Tatyana to let me into her studio, I shrugged off my winter coat and wrapped it tightly around my waist. Squinting into the sun, I turned away from her building, and then back towards it. I folded and unfolded my arms. I took out my phone and then quickly put it back into my pocket. Tatyana had come to my school only a few years before, and I had been blown away by her tenacity, wisdom, and activism. Back then, I had been too nervous to ask a question after her talk. And yet now, here I was, still nervous, and preparing to be interviewed for her art series, Stop Telling Women to Smile.

Stop Telling Women to Smile | A New Blog Post on Exploring-Self.com

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"A woman of color who writes poetry or paints or dances or makes movies knows there is no escape from race or gender when she is writing or painting. She can't take off her color and sex and leave them at the door of her study or studio. Nor can she leave behind her history. Art is about identity, among other things, and her creativity is political." - Gloria Anzaldua, Making Face|Making Soul; Haciendo Caras - Creative and Cultural Perspectives by Women of Color

"Being an artist means forever healing your own wounds and at the same time endlessly exposing them" - Annette Messager

"I like art, and by art I mean music, poetry, sex, paintings, the human body, literature… All of this is art to me." - Hunter Reveur

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Death of an image #9 and #5 C-print mounted on aluminum dibond, wood white frame, 108 x 146 cm

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Forwards Bent Feminine Act, Egon Schiele

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There is this secret stairwell that I know of in a college close by to where I live. I guess its not much of a secret if you go to school there, but to everyone else in my state, it has never been heard of. Either way, the students are allowed to paint and mark up the walls in any way that they want to, as long as they don't actually damage them. Each week during the summer and school year, something changes. It is never the same twice.

These were some of my favorite pieces that I saw this summer. I can't wait to go home for break and visit again. It's one of my favorite places in the city.

#personal #art #murals