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Artist: Michele Pred

Museum: ArtsWestchester (White Plains, United States)

Technique: Wire

Michele Pred transforms vintage handbags from the 1950’s or 60’s into walking billboards for political action. She choses purses as a canvas as a way to marry the politically-charged messages of the Pro-Choice movement with representations of women’s modern economic power and the possibilities for change that come with it. For the artist, the use of purses from the mid-twentieth century is a reminder of the women