Dorothy Napangardi was born in approximately 1956. Dorothy grew up in Mina Mina, Jukurrpa. This relates to a major Women’s Dreaming site that is sacred to Warlpiri women of the Napangardi and Napanangka skin groups. She grew up in the Yuendumu Community which is 300 km away from Alice Springs in Central Australia. Dorothy’s father was Paddy Lewis Japanangka and her mother was Jeannie Lewis Napurrurla. She also had a sister, two brothers and a half-sister from her mum’s first marriage. Dorothy grew up travelling around Mina Mina with her family and extended family, living off the land and learning her culture in a traditional setting. As a young girl she was taught women’s Dreaming stories which were passed down to her from her grandfather …show more content…
Dorothy did many exhibitions in Australia and in other countries. In 2002, the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney hosted an exhibition of Dorothy's work. While discussing her works, expert Christine Nicholls wrote that "Dorothy Napangardi’s success as an artist lies in her ability to evoke a strong sense of movement on her canvases, an effect she achieves because of her remarkable spatial sense and compositional ability... Her work can be appreciated on multiple levels.". Dorothy did many different prints and paintings. Her most famous painting is Salt on Mina Mina. The painting. This artwork was made on linen by painting tiny dots in different patterns. It depicts the movements of ancestral women as they travelled on foot and marked the land with their ‘digging sticks’. Significant ceremonies are still performed today by the Napangardi & Napanangka women who regularly gather at the Mina Mina site for the to re-enact the Dreaming story. There they paint each other's bodies with Dreaming designs. They also chant and dance the age old creation story. Mina Mina is the birthplace of the digging stick and a large patch of Eucalyptus trees (Casuarina Decaisneana) now stand where tradition says the digging sticks emerged from the
When asked to write about an important activist who has demonstrated protest, I immediately drifted towards a Hispanic and/or feminist activist. Various names came across my mind initially such as Cesar Chavez and Joan Baez but as a later discussion in class concluded, there are numerous others who are rarely highlighted for their activism and struggles, which lead to me researching more. In my research I came across Dolores Huerta, an American labor leader and civil rights activist, who I felt was an underdog and brushed over activist in the Hispanic community.
J. William T. Youngs. Eleanor Roosevelt A Personal and Public Life. (Pearson Longman: New York. 2006), 265pp.
Rita Crundwell was the trusted comptroller and treasurer of Dixon, Illinois with a passion for horses. She took advantage of her trust and responsibility to commit the largest known municipal fraud in the history of the United States. This fraudster has surprised and astounded people around the world by the amount of the fraud and for how long it went. Rita served the small town of Dixon from 1983 to 2012 until sentenced to nearly twenty years in federal prison for embezzling an astonishing $53.7 million. The story of this Dixon Commissioner shocked her small town and is studied by auditors all over.
Dorothy Case, later known as Dott, was born on April 9, 1885 to Marcus and Harriet Case in Ithaca, Michigan. Dorothy was the youngest of 9 children. Her mother was a teacher and realized her daughter’s ability for learning from a very young age. In 1889, Dorothy and her family moved to Loch Haven, Pennsylvania where upon their arrival they were struck with bad luck. On May 31, 1889, the Case family possessions arrived in Johnston, Pennsylvania, which was the same day that the South Fork Dam gave way.
Aminata's childhood began with her life in Bayo, where she lives with her parent among people who share the same culture as her. In early life, Aminata's parent play an important role in developing Aminata's character. Aminata's parent – Mamadu D...
The tradition of aboriginal art has always strived to develop ways to record all types of information, ...
Dorothy Rothschild, later to become the famous writer Dorothy Parker, was born on August 22, 1893 to J. Henry Rothschild and Eliza A (Marston) Rothschild in West End, New Jersey. Parker’s father, Mr. Rothschild, was a Jewish business man while Mrs. Rothschild, in contrast, was of Scottish descent. Parker was the youngest of four; her only sister Helen was 12 and her two brothers, Harold and Bertram, were aged 9 and 6, respectively. Just before her fifth birthday, Dorothy’s mother became very ill and died on July 20, 1897. Three years later in 1900, Mr. Rothschild remarried to a 48 year-old spinster widow, Eleanor Frances Lewis, who Dorothy referred to as “the housekeeper.” The new Mrs. Rothschild entered Dorothy in the Blessed Sacrament Convent School, where the Catholic ways of thinking were instilled in her. Fortunately or unfortunately, in 1903 Dorothy’s stepmother dropped dead of an acute cerebral hemorrhage and consequently Dorothy did not have to continue at the Blessed Sacrament Convent. A few years later, in the fall of 1907, Dorothy entered Miss Dana’s school, a junior college, where she studied several different disciplines and was exposed to current events and cultural activities. This environment nourished Dorothy’s intellectual appetite, but this too was short-lived; Miss Dana died in March 1908. Dorothy, now aged 14, was only at the school for one year, the fall of 1907 to the spring of 1908 (Miss Dana’s school had to file for bankruptcy). In 1913, Mr. Rothschild died leaving Dorothy, age 19, to find her own way and support herself.
She was born in Nuremberg, Germany in 1954. Smith is the daughter of the American sculptor Tony Smith (Art:21). Her family moved to New Jersey where she attended school with her twin sisters. She described her child hood life as being similar to the life of the Adam’s Family. “We were a little bit like the Adam’s Family, we lived in this big house and their was a gravestone with our name in front of the house…” (Art:21). She also stated that she got called a witch and was not popular while she was in school. “As children, Kiki and her twin sisters often sat at the feet of their father, minimalist sculptor Tony Smith, fashioning small cardboard models for his giant iconic sculptures.” (Close). Kiki was greatly influenced by her father’s artwork and the values that he taught her. She said in the Art:21 video that he taught her to always follow her intuition no matter if it may be embarrassing or not (Art:21). Kiki would constantly be doing something with her hands such as knitting, quilting, crocheting or making numerous small cardboard pieces to contribute to her father’s larger sculptures (Close).
Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri to this day is recognised as one of the most collected and prominent Australia Aboriginal artists, he joined the PTA in 1972 and was one of their founding leaders. He vastly became one of the company’s most successful and creative artists, an advocate for art being compelling, layered and covered in the most vibrant colours and methodically rendered visual effects. In the year of 1976, himself and his brother Tim Leura Tjapaltjarri were chosen to paint large canvas’ and one in particular which is now known as ‘Warlugulong’ for a BBC documentary called Desert Dreamers. The painting itself was enormous and held complex narrative that had never been seen or done by the Papunya artists before. The fascinating glowing fire-burst in the centre of the painting represents the sacred bushfire dreaming story. The painting is named after the place where the fire began, the circles in the centre of the striking fire burst expresses the explosive nature of the fire. The charcoal grey parts display the burnt out country and white dots signify ash. This painting is only one of the many the Tjapaltjarri brothers painted for this documentary, however, it was the most monumental. The painting holds many symbolic representations of their sacred stories and the symbols within the painting are visually intricate and comprise of many repetitions and designs, fused with strong visual symmetry. During the early 1980s, Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri was appointed chairperson of the PTA. In 1988, the Institute of Contemporary Art in London planned a solo exhibition for Tjapaltjarri, this was his first solo exhibition and the first time an Australian Aboriginal artist had been recognised by the global art world. Over the next decade, he became the most broadly travelled indigenous artist of his era and became a representative
Bianca Santos was born Bianca Alexa Santos on 26th July 1990 in Santa Monica, California under the birth sign Leo. Santos is American as per nationality, and as far as her ethnicity is concerned, she is of Cuban and Brazilian descent.
Good morning teacher and class, today my presentation is on Mary Helen MacKillop, the first Australian saint. I will talk about Mary MacKillop and how she was motivated to act because of her faith, prayer and the society in which she lived.
Linda Bove was born November 30 1945 in Garfield, New Jersey with to two parents who were also deaf. Growing up deaf herself, she used ASL her whole life. In the beginning, she went to St. Joseph School for the Deaf in Bronx, New York. Later, in 1963 she was fortunate to graduate from Marie Katzenbach School for the Deaf in Trenton New Jersey where she was surrounded by her pears which helped place the foundation for her success. Upon completion of Marie Katzenbach School, Linda later attended Gallaudet University and received her Bachelor’s degree in library science. While attending Gallaudet she was in several plays including The Threepenny Opera and Spoon River Anthology. After graduation she attended a summer school program at the National
Christine De Pizan’s work in The Book of The City of Ladies pioneers a new genre of feminist literature that exposes a time period from the perspective of its female population. Due to this, De Pizan justifiably earns the title of a revolutionary author. However, to say that De Pizan revolutionized the conditions of women in the medieval ages and onward is an overstatement. In her book, De Pizan critiques sexist arguments in order to defend women against misogyny. The change that De Pizan presented in medieval culture was gradual because she was attempting to amend people’s perspectives on women rather than offer any institutional rectifications. She worked to establish that women can be just as mighty as men, and thus, they are not innately inferior. However, her goal was not to ensure that women have equal access to exercise and pursue their virtuous roles. Therefore, if observed
One might think that starting a soccer career at fifteen is crazy. Mia Hamm made this dream that most young soccer player have a reality. Hamm was very successful in her life and made a large impact on women’s soccer. Mia Hamm was an American athlete, star of the international women’s league, and showed the twenty-first century her talent.
Throughout “Araby”, the main character experiences a dynamic character shift as he recognizes that his idealized vision of his love, as well as the bazaar Araby, is not as grandiose as he once thought. The main character is infatuated with the sister of his friend Mangan; as “every morning [he] lay on the floor in the front parlour watching her door…when she came on the doorstep [his] heart leaped” (Joyce 108). Although the main character had never spoken to her before, “her name was like a summons to all [his] foolish blood” (Joyce 108). In a sense, the image of Mangan’s sister was the light to his fantasy. She seemed to serve as a person who would lift him up out of the darkness of the life that he lived. This infatuation knew no bounds as “her image accompanied [him] even in places the most hostile to romance…her name sprang to [his] lips at moments in strange prayers and praises which [he] did not understand” (Joyce 109). The first encounter the narrator ex...