{"id":678,"date":"2009-06-11T12:03:17","date_gmt":"2009-06-11T19:03:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp\/2009\/06\/a_reversal_of_the_natural_orde\/"},"modified":"2009-06-11T12:03:17","modified_gmt":"2009-06-11T19:03:17","slug":"a_reversal_of_the_natural_orde","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/2009\/06\/a_reversal_of_the_natural_orde.html","title":{"rendered":"One time only every year! Triple-threat artworld negatives become assets"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yes, it’s time to nominate candidates for Artist Trust’s annual Twining Humber Award for Artistic Achievement<\/a>. ($10,000. Previous winners here<\/a>.)<\/p>\n

To win, you have to be female. (See Jerry Saltz for how well that’s working out, after 40 years of second-wave feminism. Here<\/a> followed by here<\/a>.) <\/p>\n

You have to live in Washington State, that hotbed of visual art careerism. <\/p>\n

You have to be 60 or older. (Old artists = forget about it.)<\/p>\n


<\/a><\/object>Yvonne Twining Humber<\/a> was overlooked most of her life and distracted by the tasks that pull women away from being artists. <\/p>\n

(Image: River Picnic<\/i><\/a>, 1940. Click to enlarge.)<\/p>\n

\"twininghumber.jpg\"<\/a><\/span>Yet she kept on. Relatively famous in Boston in her youth, she moved to the Northwest with her husband and promptly fell off the art map.
\nWith the proceeds from the sale of her house, she set up this award as a shout out to other women in Washington state who find life getting in the way of art. <\/p>\n

It was her way of saying, “You’re not alone; keep going.” Humber puts me in mind of Tillie Olson<\/a>, whose stories of women buried alive under homemaking reflected her own life and meager art output.<\/p>\n

A number of recomendations, although the output of none could be called meager. (NOTE<\/b>: I deleted a few names from the original post for the excellent reason that the artists who answer to them are not yet 60.) <\/p>\n

Sherry Markovitz<\/a><\/p>\n

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Gene Gentry McMahon<\/a><\/p>\n

\"mcMahon.jpg\"<\/span>Susan Skilling<\/a>: <\/p>\n

\"susanskilling.jpg\"<\/span>Heidi Oberheide<\/a>:<\/p>\n

\"heidioberheide.jpg\"<\/span>Gayle Bard<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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Barbara Noah<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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Yes, it’s time to nominate candidates for Artist Trust’s annual Twining Humber Award for Artistic Achievement. ($10,000. Previous winners here.) To win, you have to be female. (See Jerry Saltz for how well that’s working out, after 40 years of second-wave feminism. Here followed by here.) You have to live in Washington State, that hotbed […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-678","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=678"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}