Thesis
Embodied traditions: reclaiming feminine craft and the body through humor
Washington State University
Master of Fine Arts (MFA), Washington State University
2018
Handle:
https://hdl.handle.net/2376/102687
Abstract
What began as a means of relaxation and experimentation between the first and second quarter of my graduate school experience has since flourished into a fruitful medium and technique that closely relates to both my personal aesthetics and history. For decades, embroidery and fiber arts have been mediums chosen for protest, including work by feminist artists wishing to subvert the hierarchy of media, the traditional imagery depicted, or its gendered history. Thus, this medium was beneficial to properly express my opinions and dissents on deeply personal subjects as it balances within the liminal space between the charged nature of protest art and the comforting quality of the fibrous materials. It is this tension between the subdued, easily consumed visual language of domesticity within the medium and the feminist rhetoric and topics within my work that I aim to strike through humor, tradition, and community. As the humor eases the sting of these experiences I reflect upon in my work, the collective creation steeped in traditional material practice and shared experience between myself and the viewer similarly aids in the cathartic, creative relief.
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Details
- Title
- Embodied traditions
- Creators
- Anna Cecelia Carpenter
- Contributors
- Iolanda Palmer (Degree Supervisor)
- Awarding Institution
- Washington State University
- Academic Unit
- Fine Arts, Department of
- Theses and Dissertations
- Master of Fine Arts (MFA), Washington State University
- Publisher
- Washington State University; [Pullman, Washington] :
- Identifiers
- 99900525072301842
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Thesis