LAURA AGUILAR

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Laura Aguilar describes herself as "a mostly self-taught photographer" whose artistic goal "is to create photographic images that compassionately render the human experience, revealed through the lives of individuals in the lesbian/gay and/or persons of color communities. Hopefully the universal elements in the work can be recognized by other individuals' communities and can initiate the viewer to new experiences about gays, lesbians and people of color."  

Holly Hughes (1955- ) is a lesbian feminist performance artist and playwright, who won two Obie awards for her plays Dress Suit to Hire (1988) and Clit Notes (1990).   Hughes gained national notoriety in the early 1990s as one of the "NEA Four," artists who received grants from the National Endowment for the Arts in 1990 but whose grants were then cancelled.