episode fifty-nine | latoya hobbs
Published 9 September 2020
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episode fifty-nine | latoya hobbs
In this episode Miranda speaks with LaToya Hobbs. LaToya is a Professor at the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore, MD whose portraits to explore the intersection of race, beauty and identity in women of African descent and is the recent the winner of the 2020 Janet and Walter Sondheim Artscape Prize. In this episode we talk about her childhood in Little Rock, AR and how her love of dance and the body led her to create intimate, figurative, and extremely intricate relief prints which reexamine the traditional relationships of artist, model, and viewer. We also talk about self care while being an artist, a homeschool teacher, a mom, and a professor.