I’ve posted the whole series of photos and notes from Prof. Christopher B. Steiner’s lecture “Inside an Outsider Art: Paying a Visit to Elizabeth Tashjian’s Nut Museum,” which was part of the Armenian Diaspora Identity/Culture conference at Columbia University yesterday.
Considering I have a severe nut allergy, I found this character, who was raised on the Upper West Side and transplanted to a Connecticut Yankee neighborhood, riveting. During her “Nut Lady” period, Tashjian even got her own New Yorker cartoon (a pop culture trophy) and appeared on the Tonight Show with Johnny Carson.
Check out all my Flickr pics (with narrative captions) here.
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