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Joan Livingstone (born 1948) is a Chicago-based visual artist and writer. Livingstone creates objects and installations using felt, epoxy resin, and rubber, among other materials. Using abstraction, Livingstone's work often references the body. "Her abstracted forms often reference the body, a medium and subject relevant to the history of women artists, but always the weight of living with its physics of being and becoming." In 1983, Livingstone began a position as professor in the Department of Fiber and Material Studies, where she has served intermittently as chair, at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Livingstone has written many texts exploring the personal, political, social, and economic meaning of work in the context of art and textile. Her most well know text is a book titled ''The Object of Labor: Art, Cloth, and Cultural Production. ''

Her work is included in the permanent collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago among others.

Early life and education[edit]
Joan Livingstone grew up in Oregon and received a BA from Portland State University in 1972 and a MFA from Cranbrook Academy of Art in 1974. She was awarded a the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Artist Fellowship in 1989.

The Object of Labor: Art, Cloth, and Cultural Production (The MIT Press)