J. Morgan Puett

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'''J. Morgan Puett''' (born 1957) is an American fashion designer and interdisciplinary contemporary artist. She first became known for her fashion designs and later for her contemporary art practice incorporating fashion.

==Life== Puett was born in Hahira, Georgia in 1957.<ref name="serpentine">{{cite book|title=Give and Take: One Exhibition Two Sites|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KFlIAQAAIAAJ|date=January 1, 2001|publisher=Serpentine Gallery|isbn = 9781870814522}}</ref><ref name="ThompsonSholette2004">{{cite book|author1=Nato Thompson|author2=Gregory Sholette|author3=Joseph Thompson|author4=Arjen Noordeman|author5=Nicholas Mirzoeff|title=The interventionists: users' manual for the creative disruption of everyday life|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lrnpAAAAMAAJ|year=2004|publisher=MASS MoCA|isbn=9780262201506}}</ref> Beekeeping was a family profession,<ref name="Art-Journal">{{cite journal|title=The Speculative Archive: Addendum: As Though There Is Nothing Else on the Drawing Board|journal=Art Journal|date=Spring 2004|volume=63|number=1 |pages=46–57|doi=10.1080/00043249.2004.10791113|s2cid=220298626}}</ref> with three of her siblings becoming beekeepers.<ref name="NYT-family-beekeepers">{{cite news|title=CALENDAR|work=The New York Times |date=July 11, 2002 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2002/07/11/garden/calendar.html|accessdate=February 7, 2017}}</ref> She received her BFA in painting and sculpture from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1981.<ref>{{cite book|title=Young Chicago|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=X2tQAAAAMAAJ|date=January 2007|publisher=Yale University Press|isbn=978-0-300-12067-7}}</ref> She received an MFA degree in sculpture and experimental filmmaking from the same school in 1985.<ref name="MileafBaumgartner2004">{{cite book|author1=Janine A. Mileaf|author2=Barbara Ann Baumgartner|author3=Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum|title=Inside out loud: visualizing women's health in contemporary art|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JSQ4AQAAIAAJ|date=June 30, 2004|publisher=Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, Washington University|isbn=978-0-936316-18-5}}</ref>

==Creative career== Puett is a trans-disciplinary creative producer in the areas of installation art practices,<ref>{{cite book|title=Art Now Gallery Guide: National & international|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FIsgAQAAMAAJ|date=May 2005|publisher=Art Now, Incorporated}}</ref> clothing design,<ref name="LLC1991">{{cite journal|author=New York Media, LLC|title=New York Magazine|website=Newyorkmetro.com|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1ugCAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA15|date=January 7, 1991|publisher=New York Media, LLC|pages=15–|issn=0028-7369}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|title=The Arts in America: New Directions|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jb1i0a2gHoYC&pg=PA50|publisher=DIANE Publishing|isbn=978-1-4289-6694-9|pages=50–}}</ref> architecture, photography,<ref name="DionColes1999">{{cite book|author1=Mark Dion|author2=Alex Coles|title=Mark Dion: Archaeology|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ns_pAAAAMAAJ|year=1999|publisher=Black Dog|isbn=978-1-901033-91-5}}</ref><ref name="Tate-collection" /> and fine art.<ref name="Tate-collection" />

===Art practice=== Her work uses conceptual tools including research-based methods in history, biology, new economies, design, craft and collaboration. Morgan's early work forged new territory by intervening into the fashion system with a series of storefront installations and clothing/dwelling/event projects in Manhattan, New York in the 1980s and 90s,<ref name="Bruno2002">{{cite book|author=Giuliana Bruno|title=Atlas of Emotion: Journeys in Art, Architecture, and Film|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4F4PKXuC2HEC&pg=PA270|year=2002|publisher=Verso|isbn=978-1-85984-802-9|pages=270–}}</ref> then produced a long series of research installations on the histories of the needle trade systems in museums and festivals around the world.<ref name="Knight2016">{{cite book|author=Cher Krause Knight|title=A Companion to Public Art|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cYUgCwAAQBAJ&pg=PA262|date=August 29, 2016|publisher=John Wiley & Sons|isbn=978-1-118-47532-4|pages=262–}}</ref> her practice has been innovative in that it has encouraged new forms of social engagement in art.<ref name="ThompsonSholette2004" /><ref name="ElliottSilverman2016">{{cite book|author1=David Elliott|author2=Marissa Silverman|author3=Wayne Bowman|title=Artistic Citizenship: Artistry, Social Responsibility, and Ethical Praxis|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zlj0DAAAQBAJ&pg=PT575|date=September 2, 2016|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0-19-063281-6|pages=575–}}</ref>

===Fashion Work=== Between 1985 and 1997,<ref name="NYT1" /> Puett was known for her "upscale depression era"<ref>{{cite book|title=Artforum International|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=sZgRAQAAMAAJ|year=1995|publisher=Artforum International Magazine}}</ref> fashion designs, sold through her New York boutique.<ref name="LLC1991" /><ref name="Castaldo1996">{{cite book|author=Meg Castaldo|title=Shop NY Downtownstyle|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UbLTzw-cyQMC|year=1996|publisher=City & Company|isbn=978-1-885492-32-6}}</ref><ref name="Kroeter2003">{{cite book|author=Steven W. Kroeter|title=Design New York 2004: the what where when reference guide to architecture, fashion, graphic design, interior design, and product design in New York city|url=https://archive.org/details/designnewyork20000stev|url-access=registration|year=2003|publisher=Design Paradigm|isbn=978-0-9640304-3-5}}</ref> When her final store closed in 1997, she held an exhibition of the leftover business items, such as cheques, business cards and unsold clothes, dipped in beeswax.<ref name="Artcat1">{{cite web|title=J. Morgan Puett, Wholesale: To The Trade Only, 1985-1997|url=http://calendar.artcat.com/exhibits/3248|website=Artcat|accessdate=February 6, 2017|archive-date=February 7, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170207112607/http://calendar.artcat.com/exhibits/3248|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref name="Telegraph1">{{cite web|last1=Young|first1=Lucie|title=J Morgan Puett: Eccentric circles|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/property/3689488/J-Morgan-Puett-Eccentric-circles.html|website=Telegraph.co.uk|date=December 11, 2008 |accessdate=February 6, 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|title=The New Yorker|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CObjAAAAMAAJ|year=2006|publisher=F-R Publishing Corporation}}</ref>

===The RN Patch=== In the early 2000s, the American Association of Nurses and the Center for Nurse Advocacy sought a means to better identify registered nurses in busy medical environments,<ref name="history_Nursing">{{cite book|last1=Judd|first1=Deborah M.|title=A History of American Nursing: Trends and Eras|date=2010|publisher=Jones and Bartlett Publishers Ltd.|location=Sudbury, MA|isbn=9781449618070|page=215|edition=February 6, 2017}}</ref> in order to reduce confusion and help patients and others identify nurses quickly. In 2003, as part of the exhibition ''RN: The Past, Present, and Future of the Nurses' Uniform'' at The Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia.<ref name="LewensonTruglio-Londrigan2008">{{cite book|author1=Sandra B. Lewenson|author2=Marie Truglio-Londrigan|title=Decision-Making in Nursing: Thoughtful Approaches for Practice|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GSmQj3YUJtQC&pg=PA124|year=2008|publisher=Jones & Bartlett Publishers|isbn=978-0-7637-4435-9|pages=124–}}</ref><ref name="MPHJD2014">{{cite book|author1=Sandy Summers |author2=Harry Jacobs Summers |title=Saving Lives: Why the Media's Portrayal of Nursing Puts Us All at Risk|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lhSSBAAAQBAJ&pg=PT344|date=September 17, 2014|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0-19-933708-8|pages=344–}}</ref> Pruett collaborated with Mark Dion to create a patch for registered nurses to wear on their uniforms. The patch, a simple square with the letters "RN", could be put on any scrubs and was considered a "simple, elegant solution".<ref name="history_Nursing"/>

===Mildred's Lane Project=== With Mark Dion, she is a founder of The Mildred's Lane Project, an experimental artist's residency program. Karen Archey, writing in Art in America, described Mildred's Lane as an "ongoing experiment in pedagogy, a social space, a site for artistic and architectural intervention, a residency program, and home to Puett..."<ref name="ArtInAmerica-Feature">{{cite web|last1=Archey|first1=Karen|title=The Road to Somewhere|url=http://www.artinamericamagazine.com/news-features/news/mildreds-lane/|website=Art in America|date=August 17, 2010 |accessdate=February 7, 2017}}</ref> Located on a 96-acre farm in rural Berlin Township Pennsylvania, the residency focuses on social and political practice in the arts.<ref name="NYT1">{{cite news|last1=Gordon|first1=Alastair|title=In Her Own World|work=The New York Times |date=May 29, 2008 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/29/garden/29puett.html|accessdate=February 6, 2017}}</ref><ref name="Thompson2012">{{cite book|author=Nato Thompson|title=Living as Form: Socially Engaged Art from 1991-2011|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XbTdoWctFoMC&pg=PA146|year=2012|publisher=MIT Press|isbn=978-0-262-01734-3|pages=146–}}</ref><ref name="Sorkin2016">{{cite book|author=Jenni Sorkin |author-link=Jenni Sorkin |title=Live Form: Women, Ceramics, and Community |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=baTKDAAAQBAJ&pg=PA247 |date=July 26, 2016 |publisher=University of Chicago Press |isbn=978-0-226-30311-6 |pages=247–}}</ref>

==Awards== Puett has been awarded the John and Marva Warnock award 2014, the United States Artists Simon Fellow Award 2011,<ref name="Archinect">{{cite web|last1=Walter|first1=Alexander|title=5 Architects & Designers among USA Fellows for 2011|url=http://archinect.com/news/article/30141885/5-architects-designers-among-usa-fellows-for-2011|website=Archinect|accessdate=February 6, 2017}}</ref> the Smithsonian Institution Artist Research Fellowship 2009,<ref name="Smithsonian1">{{cite web|title=Smithsonian Awards Fellowships to 10 Artists to Conduct Research at Museums and Research Facilities|url=http://newsdesk.si.edu/releases/smithsonian-awards-fellowships-10-artists-conduct-research-museums-and-research-facilities-0|website=Smithsonian|accessdate=February 6, 2017}}</ref> and the Anonymous Was A Woman Award and the PEI in Philadelphia award, both in 2005. In 2016 she received a Guggenheim Fellowship.<ref name="GuggenheimFellow">{{cite web|title=J. Morgan Puett|url=http://www.gf.org/fellows/all-fellows/j-morgan-puett/|website=John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.|accessdate=February 6, 2017}}</ref>

==Exhibitions== Puett exhibits, lectures and teaches extensively in venues that include MoMA, New York (2012–13);<ref name="NYT4">{{cite web|last1=Churchill|first1=Abbye|title=Cultivated: Hive Minded|url=http://tmagazine.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/10/01/cultivated-hive-minded/|website=The New York Times|date=October 2012 |accessdate=February 6, 2017}}</ref> Musashimo Art University, Tokyo (2012); Contemporary Art Center, Tbilisi, Republic of Georgia (2012); Creative Time, NYC (2011); Queens Museum of Art, NYC (2010);<ref name="Artforum-QueensMuseum">{{cite web|title=Larissa Harris|url=https://www.artforum.com/words/id=25681|website=ArtForum|accessdate=February 7, 2017}}</ref><ref name="NYT2">{{cite news|last1=Johnson|first1=Ken|title=The Curse of Bigness|work=The New York Times |date=May 28, 2010 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/28/arts/design/28galleries-002.html|accessdate=February 6, 2017}}</ref> MoMA, NYC (2010); The School of the Art Institute of Chicago (2008); University of Venice, Italy (2005); American Fine Arts Co., NYC (2004); ARTEX, Arnheim, Netherlands (2004); WaveHill, Bronx, NYC; The Fabric Workshop and Museum of Philadelphia (2003–04);<ref>{{cite book|title=Umbrella|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NRI4AQAAIAAJ|year=2003|publisher=Umbrella Associates}}</ref> Mass MoCA, Ma. (2004); Spoleto, USA, Charleston, SC, (2002); The Serpentine Gallery & Victoria and Albert Museum, London (2001).<ref name="serpentine"/>

==Collections== Puett's work is in the Tate Modern in London,<ref name="Tate-collection">{{cite web|title=J. Morgan Puett born 1957|url=http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/j-morgan-puett-8470|website=The Tate Museum|accessdate=February 6, 2017}}</ref> The Fabric Workshop and Museum of Philadelphia<ref name="FabricMuseumCollection">{{cite web|title=Selections from the Permanent Collection II|url=http://www.fabricworkshopandmuseum.org/Exhibitions/ExhibitionDetail.aspx?ExhibitionId=7d10173c-ca12-481a-ae04-370cae626fd0|website=The Fabric Workshop and Museum|accessdate=February 6, 2017}}</ref> and the Philadelphia Museum of Art.<ref name="PMA1">{{cite web|title=Man's Ensemble: Vest, Trousers, Shirt, and Suspenders|url=http://www.philamuseum.org/collections/permanent/152236.html?mulR=1611975769|website=Philadelphia Museum of Art|accessdate=February 6, 2017}}</ref> Her work is also included in the permanent collection of the Hirshhorn Museum at the Smithsonian Institution.<ref name="Hirshhorn1">{{cite web|title=Mr. Zivic, 1986|url=http://hirshhorn.si.edu/search-results/?edan_search_value=puett&edan_search_button=Search+Collection#detail=http%3A//hirshhorn.si.edu/search-results/search-result-details/%3Fedan_search_value%3Dhmsg_89.5|website=Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden|accessdate=February 6, 2017}}</ref>

==See also== * Suzanne Lacy * Ann Hamilton (artist)

==References== {{Reflist}}

==External links== *[https://www.jmorganpuett.com Official website]

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