Art of the Hive: Archive

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“In Arnhem Land, the Aboriginal people believe that honey from the stingless bee...”

– Grace Pundyk, The Honey Trail

Jul 30th

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Art + Gender class

Last day of the Art and Gender summer class! After a two week extensive study of Archaic and Classical Greek Art with a focus on the portrayals of gender, we began an in-depth study of the early Feminist Art Movement. Students studied and compared the landmark pieces “Some Living American Women Artists / Last Supper” by Mary Beth Edelson and Judy Chicago’s “The Dinner...

Jul 20th

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About Love

“It is far easier to talk about loss than it is to talk about love. It is easier to articulate the pain of love’s absence than to describe its presence and meaning in our lives… Only love can heal the wounds of the past. However, the intensity of our woundedness often leads to a closing of the heart, making it impossible for us to give or receive the love that is given us. To open our...

Jul 19th

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Jul 18th

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Jul 18th

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Jul 18th

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Jul 17th

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Jul 15th

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Jul 14th

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“Reverence for the bee is as old as humanity. Bees, in fact, were on this planet...”

– Holley Bishop, Robbing the Bees: A Biography of Honey - the Sweet Liquid Gold that Seduced the World

Jul 14th

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Looking at the Work of Nancy Spero

“Is it possible to re-enchant the world? It is a question that has become more and more important to contemporary art and that has always been central to Spero’s art activity. Or has disenchantment taken over irreversibly in our spatial experience? Spero’s art provides no answer. Nor is it supposed to. Rather it attempts to negotiate between the separated worlds of the mythic...

Jul 12th

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Teaching Art and Gender

How to introduce the context of the early feminist art movement to a group of iphone/text message generation teenage female students? I keep thinking in the days before the class, “remind them no websites, no internet, no wikipedia, no scanners or camera phones…” The enormous invisibility of these visionary women and the actions they took to see themselves represented in ways...

Jul 11th

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