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	<description>Laureen Griffin is a visual artist working in themes reflecting on female identity.</description>
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		<title>Post Ringling Syndrome &#8211; struggling with processes</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 03:18:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>laureen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[While I poked around Ringling Museum last November, all I really wanted was to transport myself back in time. What was it like to live when high craftsmanship was part of our daily value system? How would the gender portraits be received if they were hanging in Ca d&#8217;Zan? Everywhere I turned, there was beauty! [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The value of things &#8211; inspired by the Ringling Museum</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Dec 2011 20:25:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>laureen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[While on residency at the Ringling Museum, I have unexpectedly come upon a form of decorative arts I never considered having much value.  That is  &#8211; painted furniture and decoupage .  As I worked my way through the collections in Ca d’Zan, I realized the need to access multicolored motifs in my work &#8211; a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Historic Female Circus Performers at Ringling and beyond</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Nov 2011 18:18:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>laureen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[modern iconography]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Historically, female circus performers are some of the most misunderstood  women.  I&#8217;m not saying THE most misunderstood, but they are up there on the scales of it all.  I was telling my Mom about some of the books I have been reading here at Ringling: Sawdust and Solitude by Lucia Zora and The Circus Lady [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Zora and Josie – famous circus women of the early 20th Century</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Nov 2011 18:02:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>laureen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here are a couple quotes that really begin to form my opinion about the era and how (circus) women were perceived: Zora and her husband, Fred, protect their cattle grazing land from the sheepmen who were notoriously impossible to keep from one&#8217;s land. The book describes the history of all out war between the sheep [...]]]></description>
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		<title>first interior photo as canvas for installation</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Aug 2011 20:52:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>laureen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Scene from Country Home is inspired by my desire to bring authentic places into my work.  Up until now, I have been using images from the Gender Portraiture Project, while I imagine the places and settings where the people can be.  This base image is taken from Wyck Historic House Museum in the Germantown Historic [...]]]></description>
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		<title>cfeva spotlight</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Aug 2011 22:48:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>laureen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Beauty Revisited &#8211; I am very fortunate for this solo exhibition hosted by CFEVA: The Center for Emerging Visual Artists 237 S. 18th Street, The Barclay, 3rd Floor Philadelphia, PA  19103 215-546-7775 www.cfeva.org Here are some views of the installation:]]></description>
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		<title>Not Shangri La</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Jun 2011 14:26:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>laureen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[gender portraiture]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[After two years, I finally mounted and exhibited this piece.  I call it a tapestry because I appropriate the visual format of the Constantine Tapestry, however I have been told not to call it tapestry as it is printed, not woven.  So it is my un-tapestry.  This was particularly difficult to print &#8211; the first [...]]]></description>
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		<title>perks for supporting New Woman project</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Jun 2011 16:34:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>laureen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[lamp design]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[New work inspired by Ringling Circus Museum, Cà d’Zan Mansion and the cultural context of early-American women circus performers. Please come back soon as the project is currently being mounted on the United States Artists Website. Here are perks for making donations to my project: Two of the images printed on Vigor and Pastime depict [...]]]></description>
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		<title>please support my project at NextFab Studio!!</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Jun 2011 14:01:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>laureen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today I am mounting a project for support on the United States Artists website.  This is very exciting as the money will pay for a residency at Ringling Circus Museum and Ca d&#8217;Zan Mansion.  Please keep in touch as my story unravels. Also &#8211; Please please support my project at NextFab!!  Forward the link to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>NextFab Award One</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Jun 2011 16:20:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>laureen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am currently falling in place in the NextFab Award One competition and the deadline is June 30th!!  Please vote for my project by going to NextFab Award One and clicking on &#8220;vote for this project!&#8221; NextFab Award One. Thank you for your support! Laureen]]></description>
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