Michael james shaw biography graphic organizer
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MICHAEL JAMES STUDIO QUILTS @ 50
Women Are? Men Are? 2003, 42” h x 98”w; digitally-developed & digitally-printed cotton; reactive dyes; machine-pieced & machine-quilted. Collection, International Quilt Museum. Photo by L. Gawel.
This quilt is a reflection on the dual masculine/feminine principles at work in each of us. I see these principles expressed as aspects of Nature. While many cultures have seen the forest and the earth as ‘mother’, I see the forest as ‘father’ and have pictured it as solid, grounded, enveloping and protective. These qualities could, of course, be as easily and appropriately applied to females as to males. I’ve thought of the ocean/water as the feminine principle, fluid but likewise enveloping, though again, the sea as a symbol of wisdom and as a life source could as easily describe the male principle. The geisha epitomizes the historical Japanese ideal of feminine beauty (not to suggest that this characterizes women in general, but that it stands for one form of the feminine ideal). I feel that both of these figures radiate a kind of empowerment, and what I see in these panels is just that: human beings empowered by these dual principles working within them.
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List of Turkish Americans
The following is a list of notable Turkish Americans, including both original immigrants of full or partial Turkish descent who obtained American citizenship and their American descendants.
Most notable Turkish Americans have come from, or originate from, Turkey but there are also notable Americans of Turkish origin who have immigrated from, or descend from, the other former Ottoman territories, especially Turks from the Balkans, the island of Cyprus (e.g. Erden Eruç, Halil Güven, Hal Ozsan, Abdul Kerim al-Qubrusi, and Vamık Volkan, are of Turkish Cypriot origin), North Africa (e.g. Leila Ahmed and Nonie Darwish are of Turkish-Egyptian origin, and Mustapha Osman was of Turkish-Tunisian origin), and the Levant (e.g. Etel Adnan is of Turkish-Syrian origin;[1]David Chokachi[2] and Salih Neftçi are of Turkish-Iraqi origin; Nabila Khashoggi is from the Khashoggi family who are of Turkish origin).
Some Turkish Americans have also come to the US from areas where there is a modern Turkish diaspora; for example, Turhan Bey had a Turkish-Austrian background; Timothy Guy Kent has a Turkish Canadian background; Marie Tepe had a Turkish-French background; Ergun Caner has a Turkish-Swedish background; Kasim Edebali has a Turkish-German