{"id":18344,"date":"2002-11-05T15:42:02","date_gmt":"2002-11-05T20:42:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/home.bates.edu\/?p=18344"},"modified":"2017-01-26T14:52:31","modified_gmt":"2017-01-26T19:52:31","slug":"phoebe-farris","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2002\/11\/05\/phoebe-farris\/","title":{"rendered":"Author to discuss contemporary Native American women artists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Phoebe Farris, editor of the book <em>Women Artists of Color: A Bio-Critical Sourcebook to 20th Century Artists in the Americas <\/em>(Greenwood Publishing Group, 1999), and professor of art, design and women&#8217;s studies at Purdue University, discusses contemporary female Native American artists at 4:10 p.m. Friday, Nov. 15, in Skelton Lounge, Chase Hall, 56 Campus Avenue. The public is invited to attend at no charge.<\/p>\n<p>Farris teaches courses on feminist art criticism, gender and multiculturalism, art education, art therapy and art and design. She wrote and edited <em>Voices of Color: Art and Society in the Americas<\/em> (Humanity Books, 1998).<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Farris received a Fulbright and National Endowment of the Humanities grants and was named a Rockefeller Scholar in Residence. A resident at Harvard University&#8217;s Institute on the Arts and Civic Dialogue and at the Women&#8217;s Leadership Institute, Mills College, she has an international reputation in the field of women&#8217;s studies.<\/p>\n<p>As founder of and faculty adviser to Purdue&#8217;s Native American Student Association, and as a member of the Powhatan-Renape Nation, Farris is involved in local, national and international Native American issues, frequently consulting on Native American art and culture.<\/p>\n<p>Active in the contemporary art world, Farris has exhibited in venues worldwide, including the 1996 <em>Women of Color<\/em> video production at the Beijing International Women&#8217;s Conference.<\/p>\n<p>Farris received a bachelor&#8217;s degree in fine arts from the City College of the City University of New York, a master&#8217;s degree in art therapy from Pratt Institute and a doctorate in art education from the University of Maryland, College Park.<\/p>\n<p>Her talk at Bates is sponsored by the Office of Affirmative Action.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Phoebe Farris, editor of the book &#8220;Women Artists of Color: A Bio-Critical Sourcebook to 20th Century Artists in the Americas&#8221; (Greenwood Publishing Group, 1999), and professor of art, design and women&#8217;s studies at Purdue University, discusses contemporary female Native American artists at 4:10 p.m. Friday, Nov. 15, in Skelton Lounge, Chase Hall, 56 Campus Avenue. The public is invited to attend at no charge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_hide_ai_chatbot":false,"_ai_chatbot_style":"","associated_faculty":[],"_Page_Specific_Css":"","_bates_restrict_mod":false,"_table_of_contents_display":false,"_table_of_contents_location":"","_table_of_contents_disableSticky":false,"_is_featured":false,"footnotes":"","_bates_seo_meta_description":"","_bates_seo_block_robots":false,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_id":0,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_twitter_id":0,"_bates_seo_share_title":"","_bates_seo_canonical_overwrite":"","_bates_seo_twitter_template":""},"categories":[11010,39,224],"tags":[6135,6889,9087],"class_list":["post-18344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arts","category-event-highlights","category-society-culture","tag-music-tag","tag-performing-and-visual-arts","tag-visual-arts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18344","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/148"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18344"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18344\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":92625,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18344\/revisions\/92625"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}