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Some of you have been very patient with us while you awaited our email. If you filled out the form we should have replied to you by now. If you didn’t get an email, then email us at [email protected]. Thank you to everyone you applied. #motherarts #experiencemica #artfestival (at Northampton, Massachusetts) https://www.instagram.com/p/ChNQnsJLmBo/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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French artist Suzanne Valadon, started her career as a model, modeling for artists such as Renoir and Toulouse-Lautrec. She lived a bohemian life with rebellious vision. As a lover of Toulouse-Lautrec, he nicknamed her Suzanne (born Marie-Clémentine Valadon). La chambre bleue is an oil on canvas painting from 1923. Housed in Musée National d'Art Moderne, it has been called a radical subversion of the traditional female nude in art. Contrasting the tradional depiction of the nude, idealized female form, she portrays a relaxed Valadon wearing casual loungewear; relatable, and on women’s terms, not as an object of men. Valadon began working as a model in 1880 in Montmartre at age 15. In 1894, Valadon became the first woman painter admitted to the Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts. She was also the mother of painter Maurice Utrillo, who she gave birth to at 18 years old. She became a full-time painter in 1896 after her marriage to stockbroker Paul Mousis. After her marriage to the well-to-do banker Paul Mousis, in 1896 Valadon became a full-time painter, they divorced in 1913, and she married painter André Utter, a 23-year-old friend of her son in 1914. Utter went on to become manager to both Valadon and her son. #experiencemica #femalepainters #motherpainter #motherartist #hampsihirecounty #womeninthearts https://www.instagram.com/p/CgsNvAWP7su/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Georgette Chen(1906-1993) was an essential figure in the development of modern art in Singapore. She was born in Zhejiang, China, and studied in Paris and New York. Chen lived through local and global conflicts, including the Chinese Revolutions of 1911 and 1949, and World War I and II. She settled in Singapore in 1953 where she taught at the Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts for nearly three decades. Georgette Chen’s influence on pop culture. In 2007, playwright Ng Yi-Sheng's musical Georgette was staged by Musical Theatre Ltd. In 2014, National Gallery Singapore published Eisner-nominated comic artist Sonny Liew's graphic novel, Warm Nights Deathless Days: The Life of Georgette Chen. Commissioned by the National Gallery Singapore, Channel NewsAsia produced a three-part docudrama, The Worlds of Georgette Chen, starring actress Rui En as Georgette Chen. On 1 November 2021, Chen would be celebrated in a Singapore and Malaysia-specific Google Doodle coinciding with the 91st anniversary of her first exhibition at the Salon d’Automne in Paris. Sources: https://www.nationalgallery.sg/georgettechen https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgette_Chen #experiencemica #postimpressionist #femalepainters (at Northampton, Massachusetts) https://www.instagram.com/p/CgZOPLZuV3A/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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What are Friday night’s like in your house? #micamoms #experiencemica #artistmomlife #artistmom https://www.instagram.com/p/CfxIx5nPQJF/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Let's take Henri Matisse's "Creativity takes Courage" for motivation this Monday morning. Creativity does take courage, doesn't it? When you're creating something new, something that hasn't been done exactly like you're doing it, and you're letting it outside of yourself, it takes courage to release it. Maybe you have a different interpretation of the meaning of the quote? What do you think? #creativemoms #artistmoms #mothersart #experiencemica https://www.instagram.com/p/CfB3oUZsvi4/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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When this 1981 self-portrait depicting a teenage girl, taken by photographer Cindy Sherman, was sold at a Christie’s auction in 2011, it was the highest price ever sold for a photograph with a selling price of $3,890,500. Of course, by 2022, money for photographs and NFTs gets thrown around like rice on a wedding day. Last month, Man Ray's famed "Le Violon d'Ingres” sold for a whopping $12.4 million!   Cindy Sherman loved to play around with identity. “I wish I could treat every day as Halloween, and get dressed up and go out into the world as some eccentric character,” she said in a “conversation” with John Waters in her book, Cindy Sherman.   Ha! How fitting to share her “selfie” when our fall arts festival falls on Halloween weekend.  #femalephotographers #micamemes #experiencemica #femalearthistoryisarthistory #arthistory (at MoMA The Museum of Modern Art) https://www.instagram.com/p/Ce_Wm1eOiRj/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Selfies are a 21st thing, right? Apparently the first one was on 13 of September 2002! Well, Frida Kahlo did the 20th century selfie so well. #experiencemica #womenartists #micamemes (at Northampton, Massachusetts) https://www.instagram.com/p/CetryVap3gQ/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=