DAILY SERVING » gender equality https://www.dailyserving.com an international forum for contemporary art Thu, 18 Feb 2021 03:54:47 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.0.13 Interview with Tammy Mercure https://www.dailyserving.com/2015/12/interview-with-tammy-mercure/ https://www.dailyserving.com/2015/12/interview-with-tammy-mercure/#comments Sat, 19 Dec 2015 08:00:22 +0000 http://dailyserving.com/?p=50449 Today, from our friends at Pelican Bomb, we bring you an interview with artist Tammy Mercure. In this short interview, author Taylor Murrow talks with Mercure about her pop-up shop project, where the prices reflect the local gender wage gap. In the New Orleans iteration of this project, women paid 66% of retail price, while men paid 100%. This article was originally published on November 25, 2015.

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Taylor Murrow: How did this project get started? I know that Elana Schlenker, your partner in 66<100, opened a pop-up shop in Pittsburgh (76<100) with a similar message. Why did you two choose to bring this project to New Orleans?

Tammy Mercure: Elana came up with a great idea, and when she started to tell me about it, we began having good discussions right away. It was a friendly invitation to talk about experiences with money and jobs and clients—things I don’t generally discuss. It was great to have a supportive person to talk to. Right away I wanted to bring the idea to New Orleans. There are so many amazing artists and makers here. And the job market is challenging. Most of my friends and I work several part-time jobs and juggle so many things.

Read the full article here.

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