{"id":3067,"date":"2014-10-21T17:31:15","date_gmt":"2014-10-21T17:31:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lbpost.com\/articles\/life\/arts-culture\/celebrating-long-beach-arts-month-angela-alannouf\/"},"modified":"2014-10-21T17:31:15","modified_gmt":"2014-10-21T17:31:15","slug":"celebrating-long-beach-arts-month-angela-alannouf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/hi-lo\/art\/celebrating-long-beach-arts-month-angela-alannouf","title":{"rendered":"Celebrating Long Beach Arts Month: Angela Alannouf"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

\"AngelaAlannouf\"<\/em><\/p>\n

October marks Long Beach Arts Month and the <\/em>Long Beach Post has partnered with the Arts Council for Long Beach<\/a> to celebrate the image makers, the painters, the dancers, the designers, the musicians, and the countless other artists who make our city vibrant and cultured. Our homepage will feature an artist’s own unique interpretation of Long Beach daily so make sure to check back every weekday to discover or rediscover a local talent.<\/em><\/p>\n

Angela Alannouf calls them mujeres mutantes<\/em>, or mutant woman\u2014the artist\u2019s way of calling out to women to challenge (and play with) common conceptions of what it is to be a beautiful female. The born\u2019n\u2019raised Long Beacher has the most beautiful, eloquent way of describing these otherwise complex creatures:<\/p>\n

\u201cMujeres mutantes<\/em> are essentially just women who ditch the docile, non-opinionated, everly cute female archetype that rears itself so often in media and then, subsequently, wreak havoc in all of their thick-bodied, tiny-titted, boisterous, buck-toothed, burly glory.\u201d<\/p>\n

Alannouf\u2019s concept of femininity lacks any connection to its stereotypical definition\u2014that is, she refuses to take part in the idea that the identifying aspect of females revolves around nurturing or submissive behavior.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn my work, the characters reflect the often neglected and unfavored facets of female humanity\u2014not just the pretty parts,\u201d Alannouf said. \u201cFor me, that is largely more relatable and unifying.\u201d<\/p>\n

For additional information, visit www.mujermutante.com<\/a>, and for regular postings of her artwork, follow Angela on Instagram @mujer.mutante<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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