Bibliographies Karen Reimer has a BA from Bethel College, Kansas, near where she grew up, and an MFA from the University of Chicago, the city where she now lives. Her work is rooted equally in the traditions of domestic craft and the traditions of conceptual art. It has been exhibited at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; the Museum of Contemporary Craft, Portland, Oregon; The Beirut Art Center, Lebanon; Owens Art Gallery, Mt. Allison University, New Brunswick; Gallery 400, University of Illinois, Chicago; and Maryland Institute of Art, Baltimore. She is a recipient of the Artadia and Driehaus Foundation Individual Artist awards, and the Women’s Caucus for Art’s President’s Award. She has also received grants from the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts, and the Center for Craft, Creativity and Design. Her 2015 monograph Endless, was published by Whitewalls and Gallery 400 at the University of Illinois. Maria Elena Buszek (PhD, Art History, Kansas) is Associate Professor of Art History at the University of Colorado, Denver, where she teaches courses on Modern and contemporary art and design history. Her recent publications include the books Pin-Up Grrrls: Feminism, Sexuality, Popular Culture (Duke University Press, 2006) and Extra/Ordinary: Craft and Contemporary Art (Duke, 2011). She has also contributed to scholarly journals such as Art Journal and American Quarterly.
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