Harmony Hammond was born on February 8,1944 and is an American artist, activist, curator, and writer.
21 Facts About Harmony Hammond
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Harmony Hammond was a prominent figure in the founding of the feminist art movement in 1970s New York.
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Harmony Hammond was born on February 8,1944, in Hometown, Illinois.
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When Harmony Hammond found out she was pregnant with her daughter, she and her husband decided to part ways.
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Harmony Hammond was an instructor at the New York Feminist Art Institute.
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Harmony Hammond curated A Lesbian Show in 1978 at 112 Greene Street Workshop, featuring works by lesbian artists.
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Harmony Hammond was one of the featured artists in the "Great American Lesbian Art Show" at the Woman's Building in 1980.
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In 1981, Harmony Hammond curated and exhibited her work in Home Work: The Domestic Environment As Reflected in the Work of Women Artists, sponsored by the New York State Council of the Arts and The Women's Hall of Fame, Seneca Falls, NY.
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Harmony Hammond curated an exhibition in 1999 at Plan B Evolving Arts in Santa Fe titled Out West, bringing together 41 lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and two-spirit artists from the Southwest.
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Harmony Hammond authored her first book, Wrappings: Essays on Feminism, Art, and the Martial Arts, a corpus of her writings from 1973 to 1983 published by TSL Press, in 1984.
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Harmony Hammond continues to teach workshops and writes, curates, and lectures on feminist, lesbian, and queer art.
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Paint applied by artist Harmony Hammond imparts earthy tones to these layered scraps of cloth.
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In 1973, Harmony Hammond created a series of artworks titled Floorpieces.
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Harmony Hammond created these rugs through a traditional braiding style with colorful, remnant fabric she had found in dumpsters in New York's garment district.
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The size and detail of Harmony Hammond's artwork is hard to obtain from reproductions and photographs, therefore insisting on the importance of a present viewer.
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Harmony Hammond's Floorpieces challenged the binary between Art and Craft; they continued the artist's exploration of the space between painting and sculpture.
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The creation of the Floorpieces coincided with Harmony Hammond coming out as a lesbian.
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Harmony Hammond's works are included in permanent collections in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Walker Art Center, the Brooklyn Museum, the National Museum of Women in the Arts, the Art Institute of Chicago, the New Mexico Museum of Art, and the Wadsworth Atheneum.
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Harmony Hammond has received fellowships from the National Endowment of the Arts, the Rockefeller Foundation, the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, the Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Foundation, and the Pollock-Krasner Foundation among others.
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In 2013, the Women's Caucus for Art announced that Harmony Hammond would be one of the 2014 recipients of the organization's Lifetime Achievement Award.
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Harmony Hammond's work was included in the 2021 exhibition Women in Abstraction at the Centre Pompidou.