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LISA HOVSEPIAN - USA

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Self-Portrait, Santa Fe 2001

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Currently, one group project I have started and am spearheading is called “Townies”. I have been taking photographs of some of the eclectic members of the Provincetown community, the USA’s oldest artist colony, gay mecca and popular tourist destination on Cape Cod, MA. I have been living and visiting there for 15 years and I love watching the characters that make the vibrant fabric of that spectacular community. I have also seen the pains (AIDS, difficulty making a year-round living, artists struggling and gay people estranged from their families) and celebrations of their freedom in this beautiful place. As I showed my work and explained my goal of making a book, many other artists took an interest. I am hoping to show a group tribute to an 87-y.o. artist, Ilona, at the Provincetown Art Museum this summer or next. We will have sculptors, painters, my photos and other tributes to this icon of the community. This naturally evolved as a collaboration from my initial idea of an individual book. It is very exciting!

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Lisa Hovsepian is selected as an artist in the artist-in-residence program winter 2007-2008.

TransCultural Exchange offers her one of the three scholarships for attendees from the conference in April 2007.

Lisa will be in the art centre in February and March 2008 to work on her plans.

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© Lisa Hovsepian

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Arts Council Finland

AllaprimA foundation the Netherlands

Encouragement Fund Finland

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