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Harmony Hammond
Harmony Hammond (born February 8, 1944 in Hometown, Illinois) is an American artist, activist, curator, and writer.
Biography.
Harmony Hammond earned a B.A. of Arts in painting from the University of Minnesota in 1967. She co-founded the A.I.R. Gallery in 1972; it was the first women's cooperative art gallery in New York. She also co-founded "Heresies: A Feminist Publication of Art and Politics" in 1976, and co-edited issues #1, 3
organization's Lifetime Achievement Award. Harmony Hammond Papers were acquired by the Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles in 2016.
"Harmony Hammond: Material Witness, Five Decades of Art", Hammond's first museum survey, is currenty taking place at the Aldrich Museum in Ridgefield, Connecticut.
Works and recognition Floorpieces.
In 1973, Hammond created a series of artworks titled "Floorpieces." Hammond created these rugs through a traditional braiding style with colorful, remnant fabric she had found in dumpsters. The rag-rugs were