Matches in DBpedia 2016-04 for { ?s ?p "Ellen McMahon (born 1951), attended Southern Oregon State College and in 1978 received a Bachelor of Science degree in Biology, she continued her education at the University of Arizona and earned her Master of Science degree in Scientific Illustration in 1983. Working in a wide variety of media McMahon continued her education at Vermont College and received a Master of Fine Arts in Visual Art in 1996. Her artistic career has developed through careers in dance, field biology, scientific illustration and design. She is currently an Associate Professor of Visual Communications at the University of Arizona where she teaches design, typography, illustration, and design theory.Much of McMahon’s work revolves around her role as a mother. She reflects upon her daily interactions with her daughters and notes her experiences of motherhood and the social and cultural ideals that are placed on her. She strives to change the mythology of being a mother and attempts to reflect a more realistic interpretation of the mother daughter relationship.McMahon is an artist, teacher and a writer. Her work has been featured in Mother Reader: Essential Writings on Motherhood, in an essay titled A Little Bit of Loss, AIGA Journal of Graphic Design, in an essay titled Outside the Cookie Cutter: Approaches to Teaching Graphic Design, Representations: Journal of the Design Communication Association, in an essay titled Exchanges: A collaborative Teaching Project, The Education of the Graphic Designer, edited by Steve Heller, in an essay titled Have Sign Will Travel: Cultural Issues in Design Education, and in the Longwood Arts Journal, a publication of the Longwood Arts Project,in an essay titled Maternity, Autonomy, Ambivalence and Loss.One of McMahon’s work is an artist’s book titled No New Work from 1993. This work was generated in response to a meeting where she and other faculty members of the University of Arizona were asked by the chairman to write down all of their accomplishments over the past year. McMahon had no professional accomplishments in the eyes of the chairman, she had just recently returned from her unpaid maternity leave where her accomplishments were personal, not professional.(Feminist Art and the Maternal): After this uncomfortable meeting she chose to create a book that reflected ideas for a different social approach to women in a professional setting. Her book pays homage to Mary Kelly’s Post-Partum Document: Documentation I, Analysed faecal stains and feeding charts. McMahon too uses diapers in her work, she creates handmade paper made from her daughters cloth diapers."@en }
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- Ellen_McMahon abstract "Ellen McMahon (born 1951), attended Southern Oregon State College and in 1978 received a Bachelor of Science degree in Biology, she continued her education at the University of Arizona and earned her Master of Science degree in Scientific Illustration in 1983. Working in a wide variety of media McMahon continued her education at Vermont College and received a Master of Fine Arts in Visual Art in 1996. Her artistic career has developed through careers in dance, field biology, scientific illustration and design. She is currently an Associate Professor of Visual Communications at the University of Arizona where she teaches design, typography, illustration, and design theory.Much of McMahon’s work revolves around her role as a mother. She reflects upon her daily interactions with her daughters and notes her experiences of motherhood and the social and cultural ideals that are placed on her. She strives to change the mythology of being a mother and attempts to reflect a more realistic interpretation of the mother daughter relationship.McMahon is an artist, teacher and a writer. Her work has been featured in Mother Reader: Essential Writings on Motherhood, in an essay titled A Little Bit of Loss, AIGA Journal of Graphic Design, in an essay titled Outside the Cookie Cutter: Approaches to Teaching Graphic Design, Representations: Journal of the Design Communication Association, in an essay titled Exchanges: A collaborative Teaching Project, The Education of the Graphic Designer, edited by Steve Heller, in an essay titled Have Sign Will Travel: Cultural Issues in Design Education, and in the Longwood Arts Journal, a publication of the Longwood Arts Project,in an essay titled Maternity, Autonomy, Ambivalence and Loss.One of McMahon’s work is an artist’s book titled No New Work from 1993. This work was generated in response to a meeting where she and other faculty members of the University of Arizona were asked by the chairman to write down all of their accomplishments over the past year. McMahon had no professional accomplishments in the eyes of the chairman, she had just recently returned from her unpaid maternity leave where her accomplishments were personal, not professional.(Feminist Art and the Maternal): After this uncomfortable meeting she chose to create a book that reflected ideas for a different social approach to women in a professional setting. Her book pays homage to Mary Kelly’s Post-Partum Document: Documentation I, Analysed faecal stains and feeding charts. McMahon too uses diapers in her work, she creates handmade paper made from her daughters cloth diapers.".
- Q15430608 abstract "Ellen McMahon (born 1951), attended Southern Oregon State College and in 1978 received a Bachelor of Science degree in Biology, she continued her education at the University of Arizona and earned her Master of Science degree in Scientific Illustration in 1983. Working in a wide variety of media McMahon continued her education at Vermont College and received a Master of Fine Arts in Visual Art in 1996. Her artistic career has developed through careers in dance, field biology, scientific illustration and design. She is currently an Associate Professor of Visual Communications at the University of Arizona where she teaches design, typography, illustration, and design theory.Much of McMahon’s work revolves around her role as a mother. She reflects upon her daily interactions with her daughters and notes her experiences of motherhood and the social and cultural ideals that are placed on her. She strives to change the mythology of being a mother and attempts to reflect a more realistic interpretation of the mother daughter relationship.McMahon is an artist, teacher and a writer. Her work has been featured in Mother Reader: Essential Writings on Motherhood, in an essay titled A Little Bit of Loss, AIGA Journal of Graphic Design, in an essay titled Outside the Cookie Cutter: Approaches to Teaching Graphic Design, Representations: Journal of the Design Communication Association, in an essay titled Exchanges: A collaborative Teaching Project, The Education of the Graphic Designer, edited by Steve Heller, in an essay titled Have Sign Will Travel: Cultural Issues in Design Education, and in the Longwood Arts Journal, a publication of the Longwood Arts Project,in an essay titled Maternity, Autonomy, Ambivalence and Loss.One of McMahon’s work is an artist’s book titled No New Work from 1993. This work was generated in response to a meeting where she and other faculty members of the University of Arizona were asked by the chairman to write down all of their accomplishments over the past year. McMahon had no professional accomplishments in the eyes of the chairman, she had just recently returned from her unpaid maternity leave where her accomplishments were personal, not professional.(Feminist Art and the Maternal): After this uncomfortable meeting she chose to create a book that reflected ideas for a different social approach to women in a professional setting. Her book pays homage to Mary Kelly’s Post-Partum Document: Documentation I, Analysed faecal stains and feeding charts. McMahon too uses diapers in her work, she creates handmade paper made from her daughters cloth diapers.".