Profile: Beverly Naidus's Feminist Activist Art Pedagogy: Unleashed and Engaged
| Autor: | Beverly Naidus |
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| Rok vydání: | 2007 |
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| Zdroj: | NWSA Journal. 19:137-155 |
| ISSN: | 1527-1889 1040-0656 |
| DOI: | 10.2979/nws.2007.19.1.137 |
| Popis: | The steps toward becoming an artist can be precarious. The steps toward being a feminist can be more so. Ultimately, teaching how to be both seems to be the easy part. Maybe it is because you are able to look back for the teaching part and harness the energy that pushed you forward blindly, sometimes uncontrollably into the art part. For the feminist part, you need to let the anger and the grief push you in a boat until you meet another angry, grieving person. When you find each other you either have a sup - port group or two people who cannot stand to hear the other speak—two cracked mirrors blurred by damage and miscommunication or two clear mirrors where the contrast and detail is splendid and nourishing. First, it is crucial to know that I stepped very gingerly into my art prac - tice. The family script and class ideology dictated that I was supposed to enjoy art, not make it. Only my inchoate rebellion against a narrow life based on secure bank accounts prevented me from hesitation. Perhaps there was a muse or two involved, but I could not hear them very clearly most of the time. My antenna was often set on the static of the early '70s; what came through and into my art practice was a miracle. Two of those miracles happened when I was twenty, a junior in college, looking to understand why I had chosen art or why art had chosen me. The first was the gift of my printmaking teacher, who despite his attempts to reinvent me as a queen bee (the one woman distinct from all the others |
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