B-Great gave me the honor to teach thi- er tribe advanced art concepts. It did not matter how much experience each of them had or their ages it just mattered that they paid attention. It took a few days to put this worksheet together but I also learned along the way. I choose a female artist to highlight wom - en’s appreciation month in the United States. I selected Anni Albers because I thought she would be interesting. I did not realize just how interesting until I got deep into the woods. I started the discussion on on a short over- view of Art Nouveau and Art Deco. I need to do that to show the rejection of both by the Bauhaus where Anni was amember. She and her husband joined the Bauhaus in Germany then in 1933 the Nazis shut it
down and they migrated to Ashville North, Carolina. He husband became the head of the art school there and continue to es- pouse the fundamentals of Bauhaus, which can be sumed up as, ‘Less is More’ An- nin in the meanwhile was relagated to the tapestry department as the only available avenue for women. She resisted at first then fell in love with the thread. Eventually she raised tapestry to the level of Fine Art with the first textile show at the Musuem of Modern Art in NY. I huge accomplishment. She kept working at it writing a book called On Weaving which opened Design Histo - ry to academic study and then reinvented herself as a printmaker until the end of her life. - Shoosty
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