The Flush Fatale Kickstarter is now LIVE! Please consider supporting and sharing our project! Over t

The Flush Fatale Kickstarter is now LIVE! Please consider supporting and sharing our project! Over the next 30 days, we’ll be highlighting the amazing artists and the women from history that they will be illustrating. This is the first in our ‘Artist Interviews’ for Flush Fatale. If you have any questions you would like the artists to talk about, or special requests, just let us know! What is your name?Monica Amneus, but I go by the pseudonym Monkah (my last name is impossibly Swedish)Website?http://www.monkah.com/When did you know you wanted to be an artist?I was a pretty late bloomer - I didn’t even discover I could draw until I was 19. Even then, I chose graphic design because it was “safe”. After a semester in graphic design classes, I found out illustration was a job option, so I finished my associates and transferred to MICA to major in illustration.Do you have a favorite piece of art you’ve done?I know this is the piece (above) that always gets attention, but it’s the piece that I’m most proud of because of where it’s gotten me. It was originally for a project with Adobe where they chose 10 female art students internationally to create a work that would be painted as a mural in Brooklyn, New York. It’s still completely surreal that I was chosen, and this piece really represents the turning point of my career as an artist.Who will you be illustrating?Maud Stevens WagnerWhat did your woman from history accomplish/what is she known for?She was a circus performer and the first female tattoo artist.What about her do you find inspiring?As a woman was a lot of tattoos, I get tons of questions and comments on both the artwork and the choice to cover myself in tattoos. It’s hard, there are some negative reactions, but ultimately it’s my body and I can do whatever I want to it. Maud represents that choice. She represents empowerment and confidence and she’s just a supreme badass.If you could go back in time and talk to the woman you are illustrating, what would you ask her?I would ask her to tattoo me first of all, then I could have a decent conversation. I would ask all about what it’s like working in the circus, about the hardships she faces being labeled as a “freak”, and I’d probably want stories of all her tattoos. She seems like a fascinating woman with loads of stories to tell.If you could tell other women artists one thing, what would it be?Be confident in your work, and never apologize for not being what someone else thinks you should be, because they’re wrong. -- source link

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