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Day 92/100 #100daysofcreativewomen

Flannery O’Connor

“The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.” Mary Flannery O'Connor was an American writer and essayist. Peacocks frequently popped up in her stories. She wrote two novels and thirty-two short stories, as well as a number of reviews and commentaries. She was a Southern writer who often wrote in a Southern Gothic style and relied heavily on regional settings and grotesque characters. Her writing also reflected her Roman Catholic faith and frequently examined questions of morality and ethics. (wiki)

“There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.”

"To expect too much is to have a sentimental view of life and this is a softness that ends in bitterness." "Anybody who has survived his childhood has enough information about life to last him the rest of his days."

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Day 89/100 one of my favorites. #100daysofcreativewomen  The spunky Ruth Gordon 1896 –1985 “Get up early in the morning before everybody has breathed up all the good air.” Ruth Gordon, was an American film, stage, and television actress, as well as a screenwriter and playwright. Gordon began her career performing on Broadway at age nineteen, but gained international recognition for film roles in her seventies and eighties. Her later work included performances in Rosemary's Baby (1968) and Harold and Maude (1971). Gordon wrote numerous plays, film scripts, and books, co-writing the screenplay for the 1949 film Adam's Rib. Gordon won an Academy Award, an Emmy, and two Golden Globe awards for her acting, and three Academy Award nominations for her writing. (wiki)

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Day 82/100 Maud Wagner - first known female Tattoo Artist. I'm not done with her but have to get back on the road!!! #100daysofcreativewomen Maud Wagner born 1877 – death 1961 First known female Tattoo Artist!

Wagner was an aerialist and contortionist, working in numerous traveling circuses. She met Gus Wagner—a tattoo artist who described himself as "the most artistically marked up man in America" while traveling with circuses and sideshows—at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition (World's Fair) in 1904, where she was working as an aerialist. She exchanged a romantic date with him for a lesson in tattooing, and several years later they were married. Together they had a daughter, Lotteva, who started tattooing at the age of nine and went on to become a tattoo artist herself. As an apprentice of her husband, Wagner learned how to give traditional "hand-poked" tattoos—despite the invention of the tattoo machine—and became a tattooist herself. Together, the Wagners were two of the last tattoo artists to work by hand, without the aid of modern tattoo machines. Maud Wagner was the United States' first known female tattoo artist. After leaving the circus, Maud and Gus Wagner traveled around the United States, working both as tattoo artists and "tattooed attractions" in vaudeville houses, county fairs and amusement arcades. They are credited with bringing tattoo artistry inland, away from the coastal cities and towns where the practice had started. (Wiki) (at Best Western Butterfield Inn)

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Day 67/100 #100daysofcreativewomen  Marianne Faithfull ““Maybe the most that you can expect from a relationship that goes bad is to come out of it with a few good songs.” #MarianneFaithfull @MarianneFaithfull #the100dayproject  #100creativewomen #singer #songwriter #storyteller #MickJagger #TheRollingStones #womenartists #feminists #100daysoffeminism #watercolorartists #dailyartchallenge #dailyart  #strongwomen #mats100days #makeartthatsells #illustration #portraitsofwomen #365daysofpaint #watercolorillustration #bookillustration #illustratorsofinstagram  #empoweringwomen #dailyquotes #dotsofpaint #dotsofpaintstudios #figurativeart “The way I choose to show my feelings is through my songs.” "Rebellion is the only thing that keeps you alive!"

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Day 3/100 of #The100DayProject is Sylvia Plath. "If neurotic is wanting two mutually exclusive things at one and the same time, then I'm neurotic as hell. I'll be flying back and forth between one mutually exclusive thing and another for the rest of my days." #TheBellJar #icanrelate

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Day 2/100 of #The100DayProject Georgia O'Keefe She didn't want to be one of the best women painters. She wanted to be one of the best painters. #dotsofpaint

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I am participating in #the100dayproject with the intention of creating a portrait of “one creative woman” every day for the next 100 days.  These may be any sort of creative woman who has either inspired me personally or inspired others globally.  My tag is: #100daysofcreativewomen_dotsofpaint  I have already created a list of at least 50 but welcome any suggestions!  These may be artists-illustrators-painters, writers-poets-songwriters, singers, musicians, actors, feminists, activists, etc. More than likely woman who’ve inspired me with something they’ve had to say (or write) because I intend to add a quote of theirs as well. Wish me luck and, if you wish, follow along! 😊 Day 1/100 Short on time I did myself! Lol. My face. My poetry.

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Day 33/100 of #100daysofcreativewomen - Louise Fitzhugh “If you ever get in real trouble, don’t panic.  Sit down and think about it.  Remember two things, always. There must be some way out of it and there must be humor in it somewhere.” (excerpt taken from “Sport’, 1965)

“Writers don’t care what they eat.  They just care what you think of them.” (from Harriet the Spy, 1964)

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Day 98/100 #100daysofcreativewomen  Janis Joplin 1943- 1970

If you have never heard Janis Joplin sing, slap yourself silly.  I mean, where have you been living?  Then go listen to Me and Bobby McGee.  Just close your eyes and listen. Then listen to everything else she’s sung. . “I can’t talk about my singing. I’m inside it. How can you describe something you’re inside of? ” “On stage I make love to twenty five thousand people; and then I go home alone.” “Don’t compromise yourself. You are all you’ve got. "

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Day 96/100 #100daysofcreativewomen Bernadette Peters “I’ve been fortunate in my career to have performed in revivals of great musicals and to have originated roles in the musicals that have in turn been revived. And I’m not dead!” #the100dayproject

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Day 95/100 #100daysofcreativewomen Kara Walker - born 1969 Stockton, CA Kara Walker is an African American contemporary painter, silhouettist, print-maker, installation artist, and film-maker who explores race, gender, sexuality, violence, and identity in her work. “Im not really about blackness, per se, but about blackness and whiteness, and what they mean and how they interact with one another and what power is all about.” Walker is best known for her panoramic friezes of cut-paper silhouettes, usually black figures against a white wall, which address the history of American slavery and racism through violent and unsettling imagery.  She has also produced works in gouache, watercolor, video animation, shadow puppets, "magic-lantern" projections, as well as large-scale sculptural installations like her ambitious public exhibition with Creative Time called A Subtlety (2014). The black and white silhouettes confront the realities of history, while also using the stereotypes from the era of slavery to relate to persistent modern-day concerns. Her exploration of American racism can be applied to other countries and cultures regarding relations between race and gender, and reminds us of the power of art to defy conventions. Walker lives in New York City and has taught extensively at Columbia University. She is currently serving a five-year term as Tepper Chair in Visual Arts at the Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rugers University.

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Day 91/100 #100daysofcreativewomen Hedy Lamarr  1914 – 2000 Hedy Lamarr was an Austrian American film actress and inventor. After a very brief film career in Czechoslovakia (which included the controversial 1933 film Ecstasy) she fled from her husband and moved to Paris where she met Louis B. Mayer(head of MGM). Shortly thereafter she was off to Hollywood, becoming a major film star of the 30’s to 50’s, where Mayer promoted her as “the world’s most beautiful woman.” Lamarr also worked in her spare time on various inventions. At the beginning of World War II, she co-developed a radio guidance system for Allied torpedoes, which used technology to defeat the threat of by the Axis powers. The US Navy did not adopt this technology until the 1960s, but the principles of their work are now incorporated into modern day Wi-Fi, CDMA, and Bluetooth technology. Though their invention was patented in 1942, it wasn’t until 2014 that they were inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame. "I remember all too well the premiere of Ecstasy when I watched my bare bottom bounce across the screen and my mother and father sat there in shock."

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Day 90/100 #100daysofcreativewomen  Helen Frankenthaler 1928-2011 This woman has inspired me to paint abstracts like no other. Check her out! “In relations with people, as in art, if you always stick to style, manners, and what will work, and you're never caught off guard, then some beautiful experiences never happen.” Helen Frankenthaler was an American abstract expressionist painter. She was a major contributor to the history of postwar American painting. Having exhibited her work for over six decades (early 1950s until 2011), she spanned several generations of abstract painters while continuing to produce vital and ever-changing new work. Frankenthaler began exhibiting her large-scale abstract expressionist paintings in contemporary museums and galleries in the early 1950s. She was included in the 1964 Post-Painterly Abstraction exhibition curated by Clement Greenberg that introduced a newer generation of abstract painting that came to be known as Color Field. Born in Manhattan, she was influenced by Greenberg, Hans Hofmann, and Jackson Pollock's paintings. Her work has been the subject of several retrospective exhibitions, including a 1989 retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City, and been exhibited worldwide since the 1950s. In 2001, she was awarded the National Medal of Arts. Frankenthaler had a home and studio in Darien, Connecticut. (WIKI)

“There are no rules. That is how art is born, how breakthroughs happen. Go against the rules or ignore the rules. That is what invention is about.”

“I don't resent being a female painter. I don't exploit it. I paint.”

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Day 85/100 #100daysofcreativewomen  Imogen Cunningham 1883-1977 “Everybody who does anything for the public can be criticized. There's always someone who doesn't like it.” Cunningham was an American photographer known for her botanical photography, nudes, and industrial landscapes. She was a member of the California-based Group f/64, known for its dedication to the sharp-focus rendition of simple subjects.

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Day 79/100 #100daysofcreativewomen  Lila Downs  1968. This woman is amazing in so many ways. I was fortunate enough to see her perform when I visited Santa Fe back in 2004. Listen to her music! You will be so glad you did! 🌷 “Naci del color de la tierra, de un bano de fuego y vapor.” “I was born of the color of the earth, of a bath of fire and vapor.” Lila Downs (Ana Lila Downs Sánchez) is a Mexican-American singer-songwriter and actress. She was born on September 19, 1968 in Tiaxiaco, Oaxaca, Mexico. She is the daughter of Anita Sanchez, a Mixtec cabaret singer and Allen Downs, a British-American professor of art and cinematographer from Minnesota. From an early age Downs showed interest in music. At the age of eight she began singing rancheras and other traditional Mexican songs. At fourteen she moved to the United States with her parents. She studied voice in Los Angeles and learned English, which her father helped her to perfect. When she was 16, her father died, and she decided to return to her native Tiaxiaco with her mother. She performs her own compositions and the works of others in multiple genres, as well as tapping into Mexican traditional and popular music.  She also incorporates indigenous Mexican influences and has recorded songs in many indigenous languages.  Born and raised in Oaxaca, she primarily studied at the Institute of Arts by Oaxaca and attended University of Minnesota , before withdrawing to focus on her musical career. She soon began performing in the traditional music scene of Oaxaca City. (wiki) “Estoy convencida de que la música puede acercarnos.  El arte puede abrir tu corazón.” “I am convinced that music can bring us closer.  Art can open your heart.”

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Day 74/100 #100daysofcreativewomen Josephine Baker  1906-1975 “We must change the system of education and instruction. Unfortunately, history has shown us that brotherhood must be learned, when it should be natural." “He was my cream, and I was his coffee - And when you poured us together, it was something.“