Background
Harmony Hammond was born on February 8, 1944 in Chicago, Illinois, United States. She is a daughter of William Joseph Hammond and Harmony R. (Jensen) Hammond.
University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, United States
In 1967, Harmony received her Bachelor of Arts degree, graduating from the University of Minnesota.
Harmony Hammond was born on February 8, 1944 in Chicago, Illinois, United States. She is a daughter of William Joseph Hammond and Harmony R. (Jensen) Hammond.
In 1967, Harmony received her Bachelor of Arts degree, graduating from the University of Minnesota.
In 1972, Harmony co-founded the A.I.R. Gallery, which became the first women's cooperative art gallery in New York. Some time later, in 1978, she curated "A Lesbian Show" at 112 Greene Street Workshop. Two years later, her works were exhibited at "Great American Lesbian Art Show". In 1999, another exhibition, exntitled "Out West", was curated by Hammond.
In the late 1970's and early 1980's, Harmony created sculptures. Some of them are "Bags" (1971), "Presences" (1972), "Floorpieces" (1973) and "Wrapped Sculptures" (1977-1984).
Also, in 1988, she was appointed a teacher at the University of Arizona in Tucson, a post she held till 2005. Currently, Hammond lives in Galisteo, New Mexico, and teaches at workshops, giving lectures on feminist and lesbian art.
Quotations: "To name, to make present. If you do not name, you do not have a cultural history, and if you don't have a cultural history, you do not exist. Everybody understood that."
Harmony is a member of Women's Caucus for Art, College Art Association, John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Foundation, Rockefeller Foundation and others.
Harmony married Stephen Clover in 1963. Their marriage produced one child — Tanya Hammond. In 1970, the couple divorced. In 1973, Hammond publicly came out as a lesbian.