Best of Design Matters: Mickalene Thomas

Design Matters with Debbie Millman

Design Matters Media

Arts, Design

4.6 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 26 June 2023

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

Known for her elaborate paintings composed of rhinestones, acrylic, and enamel, Mickalene Thomas draws on art history and popular culture to create a contemporary vision of female sexuality, beauty, and power.

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0:00.0	Ted Audio Collective
0:08.0	Got a business problem?
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0:10.4	Stay updated on everything business, on Ted Business, a podcast hosted by Columbia Business
0:15.2	School Professor Modoupe Akinola.
0:18.0	Every week, she'll introduce you to leaders with unique insights on work, answering questions
0:22.4	like, how do four day work weeks work?
0:25.3	Do will a machine ever take my job?
0:27.7	Got some surprising answers on Ted Business, wherever you listen to podcasts.
0:34.1	This archival episode of Design Matters originally dropped in November of 2022.
0:40.2	For a young girl when they're googling something like Matisse, my name comes out.
0:44.3	Like for me to assert myself within that Western canon is to really try to dismantle and deconstruct
0:53.3	the notions that persist.
0:59.4	From the Ted Audio Collective, this is Design Matters with Debbie Millman.
1:06.9	For 18 years, Debbie Millman has been talking with designers and other creative people
1:10.4	about what they do, how they got to be who they are, and what they're thinking about
1:14.4	and working on.
1:16.3	On this episode, Micalene Thomas talks about how black women are depicted in her art,
1:21.5	what about her burgeoning career?
1:23.5	I want to be in my 80s and 90s still making up.
1:27.1	I'm in this for the long run.
1:31.1	Just be told though, Eddie Murphy in Dream Girls, being serious, is almost like the video
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