Women, Gender, Sexuality, Art

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Complete Gallery of Images

The Common Thread: Representations of Women Through Textiles and Crafts

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1.) Production and Gender
2.) Commodification and Power
3.) Craftivism and Reclamation

Complete Gallery of Images

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Martha Bush/ Martha Cleaveland, Marking Sampler, 52.07 x 41.91 cm, silk thread on linen foundation, Bowdoin College Museum of Art

Esther Emily Lee, Fancy Quilt, 1890-1900, 163.2 x 161.29 cm, fabric, silk, and velvet, Bowdoin College Museum of Art.

Unknown Nigerian Artist, Adire Wrapper, 20th century, 43 x 66 in. (109.22 x 167.64 cm), textile/natural fiber, Bowdoin College Museum of Art

Karl Struss, Nude draped in gauze, plate 32 from the series “Series, The Female Figure”, 1917, 21.59 cm x 12.38 cm, Hess-Ives color print, Bowdoin College Museum of Art.

Marcello Venusti, Standing Draped Woman, 1512-1579, 27.8 cm x 12.9 cm, red and black chalk on paper, Bowdoin College Museum of Art.

Keisai Eisen, Courtesan with Two Attendants under Cherry Tree, 1790-1848, 39.05 cm x 26.35 cm, color woodcut on paper, Bowdoin College Museum of Art.

Félix Edouard Vallotton, La Paresse (Laziness), 1896, 25.08 cm x 32.54 cm, woodcut on cream wove paper, Bowdoin College Museum of Art.

Robert Feke, Portrait of Mrs. James Bowdoin II (née Elizabeth Erving), 1748, 127.95 cm x 102.87 cm, oil on canvas, Bowdoin College Museum of Art.

Kiki Smith, Sampler, 2007, 61.12 cm x 45.56 cm, photo relief etching on paper, Bowdoin College Museum of Art.

Faith Ringgold, The Sunflower Quilting Bee at Arles, 1996, 55.88 cm x 74.61 cm, lithograph on paper, Bowdoin College Museum of Art.

Martine Gutierrez, Demons, Tlazoteotl 'Eater of Filth,' p92 from Indigenous Woman, 2018, 105.41 cm x 72.39 cm x 3.81 cm, C-print mounted on Sintra, hand-painted artist frame, Bowdoin College Museum of Art.

Mickalene Thomas, Tell Me What You're Thinking, 2016, 100.97 cm x 125.73 cm, photograph, chromogenic print on paper, Bowdoin College Museum of Art.

Sam Pollack, Rig, Handmade rope from T-shirts, T-shirt scraps, sisal rope, reclaimed wood, steel, November-December 2020,

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1.) Production and Gender
2.) Commodification and Power
3.) Craftivism and Reclamation
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