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Art of West Texas Women
A Celebration
Kippra D. Hopper and Laurie J. Churchill
Introduction by Pamela Brink
As distinctive and independent as the landscapes that nurtured these artists
Representing at once a diversity of style, medium, and scale and an intersection of inspiration and response, Art of West Texas Women celebrates twenty women visual artists living and working in an expansive, rugged landscape—the vast western half of Texas, far from the dynamics of urban art communities and large national markets.
Without attempting to serve as a comprehensive catalog—impossible considering the breadth of activity in a huge region—the book is a sampler of creative expression. The painters, photographers, installation artists, sculptors, fiber artists, and printmakers in these pages are as distinctive and independent as the solitary place that nurtures them. But they also share common threads: all of these artists came of age during the feminist movement of the 1970s and find the expansiveness and relative isolation of their region an elemental influence on their work.
As with Georgia O’Keeffe, herself an early interpreter of the West Texas Plains, the women featured here find that this land of wind and sky has liberated them and engendered a sense of expressive freedom and artistic strength.
artists featured
kippra d. hopperholds degrees from Texas Tech University, where she is the Hutcheson Professorof Journalism. As author, editor, and photographer, Hopper focuses her work on the American Southwest. She is also the author of A Meditation of Fire: The Art of James C. Watkins (TTUP, 1999).
laurie churchill, a former professor of literature and women’s studies program coordinator, holds degrees from Boston University, the University of Massachusetts, and the University of California, Santa Cruz. She is the author of articles on classical literature and feminist pedagogy and is the lead editor of Women Writing Latin: From Roman Antiquity to Early Modern Europe. Currently she is director of assessment in the College of Education at New Mexico State University.
pamela brink holds advanced degrees from the University of Kansas and the University of Washington and is the owner of Associated Authors & Editors, Inc., a writing, editing, and graphic design studio. She is an associate fellow of the Center for Great Plains Studies, a collector of West Texas art, and an avid student of West Texas music.
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256 pages, 8.5 x 9.75, paper with flaps
150 color images
$29.95 trade | 978-0-89672-669-7
April 2010
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Fruited Tea Ring
Bake 300 degrees about 1 hour in a greased 10 or 12 inch fluted tube pan.
2 ¼ c. flour
1 ½ t. baking powder
Grated peel of 1 lemon
1 c. chopped mixed candied Fruit (or substitute dried blueberries, pineapple, cherries and currants)
½ c. golden raisins
½ c. chopped pecans or walnuts
1 c. butter, softened
1 (8 oz.) cream cheese, softened
(or substitute Nefuchatel)
1½ c. white sugar
4 eggs
confectioner’s sugar
Stir flour, baking powder, set aside. Combine lemon, candied fruit, raisins and nuts, set aside. In large bowl with electric mixer, cream butter, cream cheese and sugar until fluffy. Add two eggs, two at a time, beating thoroughly after each one. At low speed add flour mixture. Mix until blended. Fold in fruit. Bake for 1 hour. Cool cake, then sprinkle with confectioners’ sugar.
