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Hicks is a contemporary artist who crosses the boundaries of art, design, crafts, and architecture. In fact, she even worked with textile industries to create new materials. Her art is often textile-based and draws upon the significance of textiles in women’s history. In a 2004 interview, Hicks explained: “I have always made yarn-based things. I learned, from my grandmothers and from my mother, to sew, to embroider, to knit, to crochet, to cut patterns, to drape. These were normal pastimes.” For this work the artist wrapped an object that Evan Maurer, Class of 1966, gave her, so that only the two of them know what is concealed beneath the fabric.
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conceptual art; feminism; memory Link to share this object record:
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