Female artists

• Female artists explore race, gender, religion, violence at Sheldon

  A painting of an American flag drenched in blood and a textile piece symbolizing the confusion after Sept. 11, 2001, were part of an art gallery that set the backdrop to a community conversation about women's perspectives on violence. Students, faculty ...

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• Mobile phones give artists new tools to create

  (CNN) -- When working on her nude series, artist Karen Divine sometimes joins other photographers at group photo shoots with a model in a studio.

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• MusicNL nominees announced

  Today she's vying for the 2012 Female Artist of the Year Award, alongside Katie Baggs, Joanna Barker, Dana Parsons and Sherry Ryan, having released her debut record, "Wanderlust," just last month.

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• All Female She Devil Comedy Festiva

  The She-Devil Comedy Festival seeks to honor and reward the artists that most personify The Art of Comedy, while celebrating and helping further the long tradition of women in comedy. The five-day event will feature a competition, headliner shows ...

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• Film noir drives 'Woman on the Run' walk-in art exhibit

  Artist Tracey Snelling is shown with with her producer, Idan Levin, at the Virginia Museum of Contemporary Art. At right, in MOCA's ARTlab, visitors can pose as a character in her film noir-inspired installation "Woman on the Run." (Ross Taylor | The ...

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• Rihanna, Taylor Swift lead the pack for MTV Europe Music Awards nominations

  The music channel said Rihanna had been shortlisted for best song ("We Found Love"), best female, best pop, best video ("We Found Love"), biggest fans and in the new category, best look.

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• Threading women's stories

  Sewing is usually regarded as women's work. This process of sewing came to fruition last week at the Frame Gallery as a group of young, female artists presented their work at a group show, titled Threads 2. Some of those displayed at the show were ...

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• Whitney Houston, Donna Summer Tribute Dinner Benefits Victims of Domestic ...

  The music world lost two great artists this year, but the anthems of Donna Summer and Whitney Houston will live on at Lips at a special tribute dinner and show on Sunday, Sept.

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• Deconstructing The Nude Model: Women Artists Challenge Male Dominance In ...

  MANILA, Philippines - In art history, women in the early times were regarded merely as objects of art rather than creators of art.

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• Museum Honors Women Artists

  Pablita Velarde's studio will anchor a corner, its nucleus her painting table cradling her brushes, her grinding tools and her glasses.

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• Courtesy of the artist and Pearl Lam Gallery

  I was looking out for feminists at "Dust from the Heart," a new show at Hong Kong's Pearl Lam Gallery which opened on September 12.

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• Tulisa Contostavlos Admits She Nearly Got Her 'The Female Boss' Tattoo On Her ...

  Tulisa Contostavlos has confessed that she came close to putting her 'The Female Boss' arm tattoo on her neck. The 'Live It Up' singer told the Daily Star that she is glad to have ignored any temptation to relocate the ink work as it could have ...

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• COLUMN: Why is there no men's history?

  This semester I am taking an art history class focused on female artists and examining the various ways in which the concept of a woman has been reduced to an object from the Renaissance onward.

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• Georgia O'Keeffe - America's greatest female painter

  Born in Wisconsin, the second of seven children, O'Keeffe left her mid-western upbringing to embark on artistic pursuits unlike any female artist before her. O'Keeffe studied art in both Illinois and New York, held down a job in Chicago as a graphic ...

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• Con artist couple swindles $8000

  A con artist couple managed to swindle a 75 year old woman out of $8,000 Saturday morning, according to the Flagler County Sheriff's Office.

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• Painters Scale Women's Building to Restore the "MaestraPeace" Mural

  Five painters are climbing nine levels of scaffolding to repair the weathered "MaestraPeace" mural that adorns the Women's Building. Their brushstrokes are guided by bonds of art and friendship that they forged during its creation nearly 20 years ago.

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• The Virgin Mary Becomes Superman: Artist Soasig Chamaillard Creates Saintly ...

  Artists have always had a soft spot for the Virgin Mary. From Michelangelo to Dali, the beloved female figure has been depicted time and time again in all her lapis lazuli glory.

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• Music: Stepping out with Celtic Thunder

  22 at the Citi Wang Performing Arts Center. ... Celtic Thunder is the Ireland-based brainchild of producer Sharon Browne, who cofounded the all-female group Celtic Woman in 2005, then started up this all-male counterpart in 2007. Amid much dramatic ...

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• Women-in-rock show cranks up the volume

  The most memorable items in the "Women Who Rock: Vision, Passion, Power" exhibit at the National Museum of Women in the Arts aren't the sequined, barely there or beehived looks of Britney Spears, Cher and the B-52s. They aren't the Gibson L-5 guitar of ...

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• Snyder woman is no shy 'Voice'

  Anyone who remembers Devyn DeLoera in elementary school in Snyder might have been shocked to see her belt out "Ain't No Other Man" on NBC's "The Voice" last week.

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