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Caroline Paquita, Garden of the Womanimal (cover), 2014; Risograph-printed zine, 6 ¾ x 9 ½ in.; National Museum of Women in the Arts, Betty Boyd Dettre Library and Research Center
Caroline Paquita, Garden of the Womanimal (cover), 2014; Risograph-printed zine, 6 ¾ x 9 ½ in.; National Museum of Women in the Arts, Betty Boyd Dettre Library and Research Center

Caroline Paquita (b. 1980) is a Brooklyn-based artist, zinester and founder of Pegacorn Press. Her first self-published zine, Brazen Hussy, used xerography like other punk zines of the 1990s, but it already shows evidence of Paquita’s distinctive aesthetic, which features strong line work. Paquita’s recent work has focused on envisioning “Womanimals”—half-woman/half-animal creatures that seek to interject a queered whimsy and irreverence into distracted modern culture. This exhibition showcases Paquita’s punk art zine-making over the past 18 years.


Where:
National Museum of Women in the Arts
Betty Boyd Dettre Library and Research Center
1250 New York Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20005
202-783-5000
nmwa.org

When:
November 16, 2015–May 13, 2016, in the Betty Boyd Dettre Library and Research Center
Open MondayFriday10 a.m.–12 p.m. and 1–5 p.m.

Price: 
Admission is $10 for adults, $8 for visitors 65 and over and students, and free for NMWA members and youths 18 and under.

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