User:Ltran14/sandbox

Kim Abeles
Kim Abeles (born on August 28,1952, age 65) is an American artist whose artworks vary from different genres. Throughout her long career of 15 years, she was known for creating projects that are social and political issue-based and has made use of different mediums such as mass-produced objects, colored papers (for Collage and Origami), books, shoes that were once worn by known key figures of the Civil Rights Movement, pearls, wood, paint, silk fabric, and the list goes on. Website: https://kimabeles.com/ Social Media: facebook.com/kim.abeles, instagram.com/kimabeles, linkedin.com/kimabeles

Life and Education
Kim Abeles was born in Richmond Heights, Missouri. Kim Abeles used to be an American Field Service student in the country of Japan in the year 1969. In the middle of the 70s, She wrote her first book titled Crafts, Cookery, and Country Living and the book was published with the help of Van Nostrand Reinhold Co. Kim Abeles had received a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Ohio University for painting and a Master of Fine Arts from the University of California, Irvine for studio art in the year 1980. Abeles has spent most of her life in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The artists who inspired her works were Edward Kienholz and Wallace Berman.

Career
Kim Abeles is a professor who teaches at the California State University, Northridge in the fields of public art, sculpturing, and drawing from 1998 to 2009. After the year 2009, she became a professor Emeritus in the year 2010.

Accomplishments
1970s: The Social Furniture Exhibition is created by the artist through the use of garments and furniture that begin in the 1970s. The specimens are taken from natural history museums in California, Colorado, and Florida to use in the exhibition. 1987: National and International Acclaim Awards for her 1987 Exhibition Smog Collectors. 1993: The art show Encyclopedia Persona was held at the Santa Monica Museum of Art in 1993. The art show showcases her works throughout 15 years which includes 80 sculptures, installations, and artist’s books. 1999: Legend for a Reanimated Women (1999) is an installation of the Biographical Sculpture exhibit. The artist used well-known figures such as civil rights activist Rosa Parks, adventurer Huang Daopo, and other well-known figures as inspiration for this installation and exhibition. 2006: The Video Walls Exhibitions started after the installation Sweet Dreams(2006) from The Valises For Camp Ground: Arts Corrections and Fire Management In The Santa Monica Mountains Exhibition''. The exhibitions are presented at the waiting room for people of the vehicles emission-testing facility, the National Center for Atmospheric, CUNHM, and Manhattan Middle School. ''2013: Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship, recipient of fellowships from J. Paul Getty Fund for Visual Arts, California Community Foundation, and Pollock-Krasner Foundation. Shared Skies (13 Global Skies) is a journal article written by Kim V. Abeles are a series of digital prints and sculptures using skies collected from her journeys, artists who participate as they travel worldwide, international friends through social media, and some purchased from photographers through stock photo sites. 2014: Walk a Mile in My Shoes is a public artwork that focuses on people’s experiences. It was inspired by the Native American tribes. 2003, 2006, and 2009:The Golden Mile is part of the Mapping Time and Place project which is exhibited at The Public, West Bromich; Yucun Art Museum, Suzhou, China; Syo Gallery, Daegu, South Korea; Torrance Museum, CA; Long Beach City College Art Gallery, CA. 2017: Pearls of Wisdom: End the Violence is an exhibit at the Frank M. Doyle Pavillion, Orange Coast College. The exhibit involves the volunteers making valuable pearls in response to domestic violence. 2018:The Valises For Camp Ground is an exhibit used by the National Park Service and County Fire Department to teach about fire prevention, national forests, and our relationship to nature. Abeles welded the substructures to create shapes like pine tree logs, a chain saw, and other fire fighting tools.