Choose an artist we have studied, and discuss a work or works that you did not already use for your homework, and which we did NOT study in class (by study, I mean discuss together in class. There are always extra images on the course slides that we don't go over, and those would be fine to use).

Write a paper that analyzes how your artist engages with at least two of the following themes:

• Femininity - To what extent might this artist be perceived as engaging with traditionally female materials, shapes, thematic content? Or does this person question/ask us to think again about what female art/material/culture is?

• Artistic Equality - To what extent is this artist involved in questions of access or artistic representation (who gets to be exhibited or heard)?

• Politics - How is the artist perceived politically? Do people see "messages" in her art and if so what are they? How have the artist's gender and race played a role in how people see her?

• Iconography - What about the singer/artist's persona or work has gone beyond mere popularity to become internationally known/recognized, and why?

• Pioneering - Did this artist become one of the first to occupy a male-dominated branch of art? If so, how did she break in, and what was the reception to her doing so?