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Kansas City Arts Institute magazine Alumni Profile
The world has been the inspiration for Suzanne Klotz (’66 painting), who has instituted multi-cultural art programs, workshops and exhibitions in Africa, Australia, Israel, Mexico, Palestine, Taiwan, the United States and, most recently Amman, Jordan. In Amman, on a Fulbright Scholar award, she created an art salon and ran a collaborative workshop with Palestinian women and their families who were dispossessed from their homes and were living in refugee camps.
[MORE]“Disco versus Mao Tse-Tung” (2003)
The disco craze in China and Taiwan symbolizes the separation of the younger generation from past social and political conventions. In the multimedia piece, a Mao Tse-Tung hat is buried in dirt in the drawer. This visual metaphor speaks to the demise of communism and Chinese tradition as a result of the influence of the Western world.
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