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Rebecca Siemering
Well-Suited Senator (Tammy Baldwin), 2018
Hand cut photographs of found images and photography by the artist in black and white with violet embroidery thread, couture grade gray felt on a hand-sewn suit with photography of the Senator's speeches, printed media and Suffragette historical photos and rosette badge attached to the suit lapel
65 x 26 x 13 inches

 

Tammy Baldwin (Democrat) : The junior United States Senator from Wisconsin, serving since 2013. She served three terms in the Wisconsin Assembly, representing the 78th district, and from 1999 to 2013 represented Wisconsin's 2nd congressional district in the United States House of Representatives. She is the first woman elected to represent Wisconsin in the U.S. Congress and the first openly gay U.S. Senator in history.

 

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