Translating Memories; How Do You Read Me Now? The Art and Teaching of Angela Piehl

ABSTRACT

Angela Piehl is a contemporary artist and lesbian who has exhibited in the United States and the United Kingdom. She is Assistant Professor of drawing, painting, and digital art at Oklahoma State University in Stillwater. Piehl's artwork consists of loosely autobiographical narratives that address society's narrow definitions of gender roles. Her current body of work is an abstraction of the gender messages inherent in images from advertising. Piehl continues to be involved in supporting the visibility of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgendered, and two-spirited artists and their artwork through curated exhibitions and research projects.

KEYWORDS:

• artist
• gender
• gender role
• lesbian
• Angela Piehl
• teaching

Shara Hannah Finerman is working on her Master's degree in Art Education at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque. She studied fine art at California State University, Fullerton, and at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and is dedicated to bringing the stories and experiences of humankind into her artwork and into the art classroom ([email protected])

Notes

1. For information about Angela Piehl at Oklahoma State University see: http://art.okstate.edu/faculty/piehl.html

2. See Journal of Gay and Lesbian Issues in Education, 4(2), for a discussion of Hammond's career and examples of her art.