Lisa Sivess Johnson

Faith. Art. Life.

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It’s beginning to look like #Christmas. #beerhymns #nashville #blackabbey#mercylounge (at Mercy Lounge)

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Only in #Nashville #traffic (at Downtown Nashville)

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My first year at the #boulevardbolt. Amazing! Happy Thanksgiving!#nashville (at St. George's Episcopal Church)

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It’s that kind of night. #nashville #hillsborovillage (at The Grilled Cheeserie Melt Shop)

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Cute little houses in #hillsborovillage. Love my new neighborhood. #hwen #nashville #nashvillethebeautiful (at Hillsboro West End, Nashville)

[remembering-the-gilmores-blog]

Reoccurring characters in Amy Sherman-Palladino’s shows; Gilmore Girls & Bunheads!

… Did I miss anyone? 

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Marisol passed away yesterday. She was an iconic sculptor in the New York art world and beyond who, as she explained in the above artist’s statement, sometimes made “horses and dogs and cats.”

Marisol appears throughout our collections including: Eva Lee Gallery records,  Hans Hoffman papers, Helen L. Kohen papers, 1978-1996, Leo Castelli Gallery papers, Robin Forbes slides of SoHo, Rudi Blesh papers, Sidney Janis exhibition catalogs, 1951-1998, and Stable Gallery records.

Leo Castelli Gallery announcement for an exhibition of sculptures by Marisol, 1957. Stable Gallery records, 1916-1999, bulk, 1953-1970. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

Marisol artists’ statement for the Stable Gallery, circa 1960. Stable Gallery records, 1916-1999, bulk, 1953-1970. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

[razorshapes]

Wassily Kandinsky - Dance Curves: On the Dances of Palucca (1926)

[theartassignment]

THIS. Stephen Colbert hosts The Guerrilla Girls, further proving how smart he is. Almost any host would have made a mess of this interview, but he takes them seriously and asks great questions. 

As you may know, the Guerrilla Girls are my heroes and part of our FIERCE WOMEN OF ART video. 

[lisasivessjohnson]

Great time with @thelanguageofjoy and @nancystabell vision boarding @atmalogy. New office. New outlook. #newyear2016 (at Atmalogy)

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Click image for 785 x 1000 size.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/gatochy/283780913/in/album-72157594350839068/

Scanned from The Golden Age of Advertising - the 60s.

Naugahyde ad, 1961

[coolthingoftheday]

When flour mills realized that poor women were using their bags to create clothing for their children during World War I, they began using flowered and patterned sacks for their products, and designed the labels to be able to wash off. 

Pictured above are just some of the textile patterns that they used for the bags.

(Source)

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Happy Birthday Corita Kent!

The artist, nun, educator, and activist was born on this day, November 20th, in 1918!

Today we are flipping through Someday is Now: The Art of Corita Kent (N6537 .K435 A4 2013 Quarto) in celebration.

Corita Kent entered the Roman Catholic order of Sisters of the Immaculate Heart of Mary in Los Angeles in 1936, and took the name Sister Mary Corita. After recieving her MA in Art History, Corita became the head of the Art Department at Immaculate Heart College. 

She worked almost exclusively with silkscreen, or serigraphy, helping to establish it as a fine art medium. Her artwork, with its messages of love and peace, was particularly popular during the social upheavals of the 1960s and 1970s.

Her classes at Immaculate Heart were an avant-garde mecca for prominent, ground-breaking artists and inventors, such as Alfred Hitchcock, John Cage, Saul Bass, Buckminster Fuller and Charles & Ray Eames.

Buckminster Fuller described his visit to the department as “among the most fundamentally inspiring experiences of my life.”

-wikipedia

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Sisters + art + activism

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Have we cycled back to these rules yet??

Also looking forward to the (forthcoming book) Art of Handwriting from @archivesofamericanart team - including curator Mary Savig who brought forward letters from artists like Sister Mary Corita Kent, as well as the equally alluring volunpeers who transcribed them!

[archivesofamericanart]

Aw gee, thanks @smithsoniantranscriptioncenter! We are waiting for the book with bated breath as well! And it’s never a bad time to celebrate Sister Mary Corita Kent.

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http://www.kookychow.com

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[thatsthat24]

Cry as much as me that this show is over.

[smartgirlsattheparty]

Leave a legacy like Lil Sebastian

YOU’RE 5000 CANDLES IN THE WIND

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This is corny as hell AND I LOVE IT.

[archivesofamericanart]

Enid Yandell was a Kentuckian sculptor who was commissioned to create a monumental sculpture of Athena for the 1897 Nashville World’s Fair. Read more about her on our blog today. 

Detail from: Enid Yandell with her sculpture of Pallas Athena, 1896 / unidentified photographer. Enid Yandell papers, 1878-1982. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

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Her sculptress contemporaries, dubbed the White Marmorean Flock by hater Henry James, were hard at work abroad

[archivesofamericanart]

Never let the haters get you down.

[lisasivessjohnson]

Cutest dog ever! Happy Dog Day Fiona!