Looking at Art Lets the Truth Get In

By Mary Britton Clouse
Date: Sunday, June 14, 2009 11:25 AM
Duration: 20 minutes
Target audience: Any
Tags: activism art rescue

You can find more information on the speaker's site:

• Abstract: http://www.upc-online.org/thinking/framed-clouse.html
• Talk: http://www.mnartists.org/Mary_Britton_Clouse

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Britton Clouse is Founder of Chicken Run Rescue in Minneapolis. Britton Clouse’s photography and paintings reflect her passion to revolutionize attitudes towards the most demeaned and manipulated creatures in the modern world: the chicken. Specifically, she strives to shift common negative assumptions about domestic fowl, explaining: “I see my rehabilitation work with animals and my activism as much a part of my art as pushing paint around a canvas. Both demand science, discipline, creativity, stamina, a willingness to be emotionally vulnerable and risk public ridicule and failure for an ideal”.

Britton Clouse's work is currently on exhibit in London in conjunction with the 200 year celebration of the work of Charles Darwin and was featured in a symposium at London Metropolitan Museum called “The Animal Gaze” (November 20-21, 2008). Also featured in Framed!, in an interview with Dr. Annie Potts in the Vegan Voice, Number 36, Dec 2008-Feb 2009 http://veganic.net/currentissue.htm

Attended by:

• Katherine Stewart