The Human Tapestry of Gender and Sexual Identity, VII at The City of Las Vegas Charleston Heights Arts Center, Forever QUEER Exhibit, curated by Richard Hooker, July 20 - October 8, 2023
The Human Tapestry of Gender and Sexual Identity, VII at The City of Las Vegas Charleston Heights Arts Center, Forever QUEER Exhibit, curated by Richard Hooker, July 20 - October 8, 2023
The Human Tapestry of Gender and Sexual Identity, VII at The City of Las Vegas Charleston Heights Arts Center, Forever QUEER Exhibit, curated by Richard Hooker, July 20 - October 8, 2023
The Human Tapestry of Gender and Sexual Identity, VII at The City of Las Vegas Charleston Heights Arts Center, Forever QUEER Exhibit, curated by Richard Hooker, July 20 - October 8, 2023
The Human Tapestry of Gender and Sexual Identity, VII at The City of Las Vegas Charleston Heights Arts Center, Forever QUEER Exhibit, curated by Richard Hooker, July 20 - October 8, 2023
The community weaving, National Federation of Democratic Women Western Regional Confeerence, February 8, 2020, without artist enhancements.
Detail from the National Federation of Democratic Women Western Regional Conference, February 8, 2020
Contemplating identities.
The Identity Center
The Identity Center III, Las Vegas Pride, October 11-12, 2019, without artist enhancements.
Las Vegas Pride, October 11-12, 2019
The Identity Center III, Las Vegas Pride, October 11-12, 2019
The Identity Center III, Las Vegas Pride, October 11-12, 2019
The Identity Center III, Las Vegas Pride, October 11-12, 2019
The Identity Center I, the first photo of the weaving in progress at The Studio, Sahara West Library exhibit titled Unraveling Identity. Exhibit attendees were asked to add to our understanding of humanity by selecting the ribbon or ribbons that most closely defines who they were or who they would be if current social constraints were not in place. Then they weaved their ribbons in the community loom. Together we created a visual language of humans true nature.
"The Human Tapestry of Gender and Sexual Identity", the weaving in progress at The Studio, Sahara West Library exhibit titled Unraveling Identity. Exhibit attendees were asked to add to our understanding of humanity by selecting the ribbon or ribbons that most closely defines who they were or who they would be if current social constraints were not in place. Then they weaved their ribbons in the community loom. Together we created a visual language of humans true nature.
"The Human Tapestry of Gender and Sexual Identity", the weaving in progress at The Studio, Sahara West Library exhibit titled Unraveling Identity. Exhibit attendees were asked to add to our understanding of humanity by selecting the ribbon or ribbons that most closely defines who they were or who they would be if current social constraints were not in place. Then they weaved their ribbons in the community loom. Together we created a visual language of humans true nature.
Artist/Facilitator: Denise R. Duarte working with communities: Nevada Women's Lobby, The LGBTQ Center of Southern Nevada, LEft of Center Art Gallery. ERA, a socially-engaged artwork celebrating the ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment by the Nevada Legislature.
Artist/Facilitator: Denise R. Duarte
Social Practice
I am a socially-engaged artist who relishes working with community to create artwork that not only enhances their lives, but also the greater population. Issue based artwork allows for communities to articulate their perspective(s), which provides opportunities for them to become their own agent of change. Community is defined here as any number of individuals who share some commonality either defined by location, organizational relationship or any demographic classification.
Social Practice work is based on the artist amplifying the community's voice by placing it in a framework of the artist's design.
The artist fee for the stabilization and added artist embellishments of the first five weavings for the tapestries from "The Identity Center" was supported, in part, by the Nevada Arts Council, a state agency, which receives support from the National Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency, and the state of Nevada.
