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	<title>Laureen Griffin</title>
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		<title>Call for Participants</title>
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DEFINE YOUR BEAUTY - Beauty Revisited is an extension of The Gender Portraiture Project bringing together photographic portraits with personal narrative into the context of American material culture and power. I ask participants: &#8220;How do you define your own sense of beauty? When you look inside yourself who do you see?&#8221; My work confronts society’s [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://laureengriffin.com/wordpress/2009/10/17/call-for-participants/</link>
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		<title>Portraiture in EMMA&#8217;s Parlour</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Please come check out EMMA&#8217;s Parlour in  University City Arts League - Meet the artists during our Opening Reception, Friday Sept. 11th, 5-7PM or email Laureen for information about having your Gender Portrait taken in the Parlour.
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		<link>http://laureengriffin.com/wordpress/2009/09/07/portraiture-in-emmas-parlour/</link>
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		<title>EMMA&#8217;s Parlour House Party</title>
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Mary Kalyna is graciously hosting a special party at her home on Sunday August 16 that will feature a preview performance of ‘Emma’, one of this year’s Fringe Festival shows.  Please join us for a unique opportunity to see this moving theatre piece based on the life of Emma Goldman in an intimate setting.  Afterwards [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://laureengriffin.com/wordpress/2009/08/09/emmas-parlour-house-party/</link>
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		<title>EMMA&#8217;s Parlour Postcard</title>
		<description><![CDATA[POSTCARD DOWNLOAD
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		<link>http://laureengriffin.com/wordpress/2009/08/06/emmas-parlour-postcard/</link>
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		<title>Social and Moral Deviance</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Things I am thinking about as I prepare my proposal for Eastern State Penitentiary
Standards are set and norm is created - anything outside the norm is deviance - downfall of Catholic control in general resulting from Darwinism, Positivism and the birth of Sociology create new categories of social hierarchy based on morality and male dominance [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://laureengriffin.com/wordpress/2009/03/14/social-and-moral-deviance/</link>
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		<title>The Normal Woman</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The normal woman as studied and put forth by Cesare Lombroso in the 1890&#8217;s.   The notes below are based on Criminal Woman, the Prostitute, and the Normal Woman by Cesare Lombroso and Guglielmo Ferrero translated and with a new introduction and feminist commentary by Nicole Hahn Rafter and Mary Gibson.
The Normal Woman is proven to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://laureengriffin.com/wordpress/2009/03/14/the-normal-woman/</link>
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		<title>Fiber Reactive Dye - cold cure process</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Fiber Reactive Dyes (Jacquard Procion MX or Dharma Trading Co.) are amazing to use - one reason is they do not have to be heat-set when used on cotton.  (I would imagine all cellulose based fabrics, but so far I have only printed onto cotton.)  I apply the dye by hand with brushes and sponges [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://laureengriffin.com/wordpress/2009/03/07/fiber-reactive-dye-cold-cure-process/</link>
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		<title>Women&#8217;s Studio Workshop</title>
		<description><![CDATA[First I would like to plug Women&#8217;s Studio Workshop and thank them for awarding me a fellowship and therefore giving me the chance to test my silkscreen printing techniques.  I have been experimenting with pattern design and screen printing fiber reactive dye onto cotton.  My first attempts simply followed the instructions on the sodium alginate [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://laureengriffin.com/wordpress/2009/03/07/womens-studio-workshop/</link>
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		<title>Questioning Positivism</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I am conducting an independent research project in preparation for a proposal submission, to Eastern State Penitentiary, for an art installation - my proposal looks at phrenology and female criminology of the late 19th and early 20th Centuries.Reaching back in time, as I so often do, looking for the origins of particular societal phenomena that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://laureengriffin.com/wordpress/2008/10/23/questioning-positivism/</link>
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		<title>EVIDENCE in the PGN</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Jen Coletta wrote a well described article in the Philadelphia Gay News.  The article showcases photos from each artist along with exhibit information and direct quotes.  In order to read the article you will need Adobe Reader.
download evidence_pgn.pdf
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		<link>http://laureengriffin.com/wordpress/2008/01/21/evidence-in-the-pgn/</link>
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