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Peggy Guggenheim: Confessions of an Art Addict

The performance is a one-woman historical interpretation of Peggy Guggenheim in the spirit of Clay Jenkinson or Hershey Felder.

It's November 6, 1957, and you have the golden ticket -- an invitation to a reception at Palazzo Venier dei Leoni to view Peggy Guggenheim's famous collection of modern art. Peggy herself, witty and self-deprecating, will be your guide. From losing her father on the Titanic to opening a gallery in wartime New York and discovering Jackson Pollock, she has led a remarkable life, and she will share the stories behind each artwork. Did you know Mondrian was a marvelous dancer? We will see the Hans Arp sculpture she fell in love with at first touch, hear how far she went to get a bargain on Brancusi's Bird in Space, and learn why the 31 Women exhibition she staged in 1943 was one woman too many. Too long overlooked, Peggy is a central figure in the history of 20th-century art and a colorful character in her own right.

Performed by Rebecca Albiani.

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ABOUT REBECCA ALBIANI

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Rebecca Albiani has been an arts lecturer at the Frye Art Museum and in the Puget Sound area for the last two decades. She was a Fulbright Scholar in Venice and graduated with honors in Art History from Stanford University and University of California, Berkeley.

Earlier Event: November 5
Huge Oriental Rug Sale
Later Event: November 7
The Seattle International Comedy Competition

LAND ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

Whidbey Island Center for the Arts would like to begin by acknowledging that we gather on the ancestral homelands, originally known as Tscha-kole-chy (SHA-KOL-CHI) in Lushootseed (LU-SHOOT-SEED), of the Coastal Salish Peoples, on the lands of the lower Skagit, Tulalip (tuh·lay·luhp), Swinomish (SWIN-ə-mish), Snohomish (snō-hō-mish), Stillaguamish (still-uh-GWAH-mish), and Suquamish (soo-kwah-mish), who have lived in the Salish Sea basin since time immemorial and have hunted, fished, gathered, and taken care of these lands.

We respect their sovereignty, their right to self-determination, and we honor their sacred spiritual connection with the land and water.

Please join us in expressing our deepest respect and gratitude to the indigenous people of this territory and for their enduring care and protection of the land in which we currently occupy and share through the Treaty of Point Elliott signed by 82 tribes in Múckl-te-óh (Mukilteo) on January 22, 1855.