#my dress

[renaissance35]

My favorite outfit is Cassandras I went all out😆💯

These dazzling dresses were supposed to be the batfamily girls outfits for the met gala this year🤩🙏

But, I never finished them I had Carrie Kelly (robin) and Harper Row (blue bird) to do 😓 but I will finish them and post them up as soon as I can.👗👠

If you needed to know, the pearls are all on each dress in individual places hiding in plain sight. Well I hope you have a great night.☺️

[ihatenotreading]

tds outfit

My outfit🖤💜(there's a short underneath bc the dress is a lil short)

Opinions???

[uwmspeccoll]

Good Bye!

This is my last post as Special Collections Graduate Intern. I am now a Master of Fine Arts and I am using this post as an opportunity to share some of my own work.

My Dress, is an accordion-folded artists book printed from four hand carved linoleum blocks. Two blocks on each side of the single sheet, yellow and a deep navy. Conceived of in 2021, published in 2023 as a small boxed edition of 4. This copy will be a part of the UWM Libraries' Special Collections.

The book was a part of my thesis exhibition, In Here, Out There. My exhibition was about the work of 'becoming' queer, work typically done in safe interior spaces, like our homes where we can play and experiment with our how we perform gender. The work of 'becoming' queer involves orienting oneself towards objects that allow you to imagine new possibilities of being. In this book that object is my dress that I carefully select from my closet and pull on over my head, I then joyfully fly through the apartment and the book to the mirror in which I appreciate the work I have done.

I will be staying in Milwaukee; I love this city and have an amazing supportive community here. I will have a studio at the House of RAD and I will be teaching workshops at Anchor Press Paper and Print! Including one on creating a linocut accordion fold book, much like this one. So, keep a look out!

Also, come and see Boyfriend Material, an exhibition of Queer Milwaukee based artists, including myself, curated by artist and curator, LaNia Sproles. Open May 22 – July 15, 2023 at the Brooks Stevens Gallery, located at MIAD, 273 East Erie Street, Milwaukee.

Follow my work on Instagram @teddylepley, and on my website Teddylepley.com.

Read more posts by Teddy! Read more Fine Press Friday Posts!

Thanks for reading! Too-da-loo,

Teddy Dean Lepley III, M.F.A.

[mrs-trophy-wife]

[jedailylife1]

[tacosaysroar]

I’m sitting on my sister’s loveseat next to my nieces, who are glued to Minnie’s Bowtique. One of them has a yogurt, and let me tell you, I think she’s managed to accidentally swipe yogurt across most of my body.

And yet, there’s not a single glob of yogurt anywhere on her.

[ef-1]

For those not tapped into Australian politics, King Charles is in Australia to conduct his "historic first tour to the commonwealth realm" i.e visting countries that King Charles is supposedly a monarch to.

Indigenous senator Lidia Thorpe had requested an audience with King Charles for weeks prior to this visit, she wrote countless letters to speak to him. Unlike other commonwealth nations and other former Brisitish colonies, a treaty with Indigenous peoples in Australia was never formed. Their land was never ceded to the British Crown. After being denied and ignored, Lidia Thorpe, draped in a traditional possum skin cloak, stormed in the Great Hall during the reception for Charles at Parliament House in the capital shouting the following:

I literally can't even look at these photos without getting goosebumps.

[pinkcultgirl]

Cherokee Miku from my home state of North Carolina!

[skinnyazn]

I didn’t do the cosplay just for the meme….

Flying to Italy and finding the exact field to recreate the picnic scene was pretty amazing. The costume took me a month to make 😮‍💨 it was so nice to shoot it in THE field!!

Edit: thank you guys SO MUCH for all the love on this cosplay! If you’d like to donate to support future cosplays, I’ve created a ko-fi account here! 💖 donate

[windwenn]

*jazz hands* welsh miku

[nerdy-arty]

Venezuelan Miku!!

[nick-the-dog]

TBOY IN A HOCO DRESS!!! TBOY IN A HOCO DRESS!!!

[hinamie]

post-graduation trip airport looks

[strategypillar]

Why have vampire ocs if not to draw them in different time periods?

[bgmoth]

she really hates ghosts

[eggnogtoast]

the gang goes to therapy.