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Strategies for survival

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Artist Bren Ahearn stands in front of a large sampler he created that explores gender roles. His exhibit is on display at the Bellevue Arts Museum

Bellevue Arts Museum exhibit explores gender roles, homophobia and violence

Photo by Ryan Murray

by Ryan Murray

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ren Ahearn doesn’t have time for your gender norms. You can see as much in his current exhibit at the Bellevue Arts Museum, where “Bren Ahearn: Strategies for Survival” will hang until January of 2017. Ahearn’s art is a series of “samplers,” or embroidered messages on large textile canvasses. Some are emotional, personal moments from his life. Others are slightly morbid and probe into what is accepted as “domesticity.” All are tongue-in-cheek or outright political messages fighting against what passes for femininity and masculinity in this country. “In about 2007 I went back to school and went to a sampler collection,” he said. “It was eyeopening to see this interpretation of how girls were educated compared to the violence, which is the SURVIVAL PAGE 12

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