Holly Hughes (performance artist)
- Holly Hughes (performance artist)
Holly Hughes (born 1955) is a lesbian[ [http://www.glbtq.com/arts/hughes_h.html glbtq webpage] ] [Alvin Klein, "Too Shocking' Sends Urgent Messages', New York Times, July 25, 1995 [http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9F0CE2D61739F936A15754C0A965958260&sec=&spon=&&scp=16&sq=%22holly%20hughes%22&st=cse] ] performance artist.]Biography
Born in Saginaw, Michigan on March 10, 1955, she graduated from Kalamazoo College in 1977 and moved to New York City two years later
In 1990 Hughes earned national attention as one of the so-called NEA Four, artists whose funding from the National Endowment for the Arts was vetoed [Anita Gates, 'THEATER REVIEW; A Frontline Soldier in the Culture Wars Lobs Grenades', New York Times, May 10, 2000 [http://theater2.nytimes.com/mem/theater/treview.html?_r=1&html_title=&tols_title=PREACHING%20TO%20THE%20PERVERTED%20(PLAY)&pdate=20000510&byline=By%20ANITA%20GATES&id=1077011431162&scp=8&sq=%22holly%20hughes%22&st=cse&oref=login] ] .
It has been argued that she is influenced by Sam Shepard [Stephen Holden, 'Theater: 'Dress Suits", New York Times, February 3, 1988 [http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=940DE5DF153BF930A35751C0A96E948260&fta=y&scp=5&sq=%22holly%20hughes%22&st=cse] ] .
She works as an Associate Professor at the Michigan School of Arts & Design.
Bibliography
*"Well of Horniness" (1983)
*"The Lady Dick" (1984)
*"World Without End" (1989)
*"Clit Notes"
References
External links
* [http://www.art-design.umich.edu/faculty.php?aud=e&menucat=pe&id=hahughes Webpage at the Michigan School of Arts and Design]
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