EXPLORING FEMININITY
TEXAS ARTISTS: WOMEN OF ABSTRACTION
Each semester the Art Museum of South Texas enlists a TAMU-CC professor to respond to one of our current exhibitions. This interdisciplinary collaboration lends context and new insights to the artwork on display. The selected professor crafts a unique response to the work incorporating their own research, expertise, and interests.
In Exploring Femininity, Dr. Wiehe responded to the exhibition Texas Artists: Women of Abstraction, through research into “women” and gender as an abstract concept. The double sided Exploring Femininity zine can be viewed digitally (above), and physical copies of the zine were passed out and customized during a free community night at AMST in March 2022.
DR. JARRED WIEHE
Assistant Professor of English (TAMU-CC)
Co-Coordinator of the Women's, Genders, and Sexualities Minor
Specializing in:
Restoration and 18th Century British Literature
Drama and Performance Studies, Disability Studies, Theories of Genders and Sexualities
LISTEN
These abstract and atmospheric songs by female artists recall the paintings of Dorothy Hood. Listen while gazing at Hood’s work for a trip out of this world. Image credit: Dorothy Hood, Centrifugal Orbit, 1984 oil on canvas
CREATE
These activity sheets will encourage you to respond to the themes discussed in the program. Use the buttons below to print the activity sheets. Image credit: Catherine Lee, Tributaries Like, 2012, oil on canvas
READ
These readings inform the content of the this program. Use the links below to read more from these works of feminist theory. Image credit: Monique Wittig
Simone de Beauvoir. The Second Sex. Bantham: New York, 1952.
Susan Bordo. Unbearable Weight: Feminism, Western Culture, and the Body. U CA P: 2004.
Monique Wittig. The Straight Mind and Other Essays. Beacon: Boston, 1992.
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