Grayson Perry college in London take part in an annual competition to design new dresses for Claire. An exhibition, "Making Himself Claire: Grayson Perry's Dresses," is being held at the Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool, from November 2017 to February 2018. As well as ceramics, Perry has worked in printmaking, drawing, embroidery and other textile work, film and performance. He has written a graphic novel, "Cycle of Violence." The Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam mounted a solo exhibition of his work in 2002, "Guerrilla Tactics." It was partly for this work that he was awarded the Turner Prize in 2003, the first time it
Linda Lee Alter Linda Lee Alter Linda Lee Alter is an American visual artist who is primarily known as an art collector and philanthropist. In 2010 Alter donated five hundred artworks by American female artists to the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Alter graduated from Olney High School in 1957, and from the Philadelphia College of Art in 1961. After 30 years of being a fiber artist, painting with acrylics became her medium of choice. Alter’s appliqués and paintings are represented in private and public collections including: Allentown Art Museum; Anheuser Busch Company of MO and FL; Historical Society