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Marilyn Lizzo displays 63 ceramic portraits in "Good Girls 1968" at Missoula Museum of Art
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Artist Marilyn Lizzo described her exhibit "Good Girls 1968," a series of 63 ceramic head portraits made from 1968 yearbook photos, and discussed her process, materials and the class reconnections the project produced.
Marilyn Lizzo, an artist from Moscow, Idaho, spoke at the Missoula Museum of Art about her exhibition "Good Girls 1968," a display of 63 ceramic portrait heads derived from her 1968 high school yearbook photos.
Lizzo said she began the series by working through the yearbook alphabetically, using small 2-by-2-inch photographs as the basis for three-dimensional sculptures. "I started with the a's in the yearbook, and then I worked, my way through, the yearbook to do the 63 heads," she said, describing both the starting point and the scope of the project.
The exhibition, Lizzo said, is intended to highlight the opportunities and expectations faced by young women in 1968. "I wanted to do the girls to honor them because back in 1968, there…
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