About Trappings
About Two Girls Working
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Trappings Traveling Exhibition
Trappings: Stories of Women, Power and
Clothing is a multi-media art exhibition available to museums, galleries, and
community spaces.
Two Girls Working is the collaborative team of artists Tiffany Ludwig and Renee Piechocki. Since 2001, we have been producing our national artwork Trappings. We have been traveling across the United States to ask women to respond to the question: what do you wear that makes you feel powerful? We have visited each region of the country and have met with a diverse group of 600 women at interview sessions in fifteen states.
Although Trappings starts with one question about clothing, the project is not about fashion, and to a large extent not even about clothing. It offers a platform for viewers and participants to explore their relationship to power and investigate how they evoke power. By presenting images of women to the viewer, Trappings challenges the preconceived set of ideas individuals create based on other's personal appearance.
In order to share women's dynamic responses to our project question, we created the exhibition Trappings:
Stories of Women, Power and Clothing. It is a compelling, multi-media exhibition of artworks and project ephemera. This exhibition is designed to appeal to art audiences, and is also of special interest to people engaged with anthropology, women's studies, and oral history.
The exhibition debuted at the Regina Gouger Miller Gallery at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, PA in July 2006, with support from The Heinz Endowments and The Pittsburgh Foundation. Images of the exhibition and the exhibition schedule are posted here.
