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Artist: Future Akins-Tillet (American)
American printmaker and textile artist best known for her use of sequins and beads. Akins-Tillet is the Associate Professor of Art at Texas Tech University and coordinator of the Master of Art Education program. Her work is autobiographical, focusing on anecdotes that highlight contemporary socio-political issues, specifically women and aging and their image in mass media. She has given presentations at Puebla, Mexico, Edinburg, Scotland, Ponce, Puerto Rico, NAEA Conferences, and International Fine Arts Deans Conference and has been published in Art Education for Social Justice, TRENDS, The International Journal of Arts and Society, Democracy and Education, Studies in Art Education, and Radical Teacher.