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Lisa Marie Thalhammer, Visual Artist

lm@lisamariestudio.com | 202-425-2414
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
June 3rd, 2016
VISUAL ARTIST LISA MARIE THALHAMMERS "WOMEN IN POLITICS" MURAL & BIRTHDAY
CELEBRATION @ LOCAL SIXTEEN ROOFTOP
Join Lisa Marie Thalhammer for her birthday on Thursday, June 16th, from 5-8pm, to
celebrate the artist's newest mural "Women In Politics" located at Local Sixteen rooftop
bar, 1602 U street NW, Washington DC.

Lisa Marie Thalhammer's "Women In Politics" mural celebrates the momentum of women in
American politics and their keen ability to compromise and work together across party lines.
Painted with spray enamel on brick wall, this work inspired by the political cartoons of artist
Thomas Nast in the 1870's, identifies the two dominant political parties in the United States with
the head of an elephant representing the Republican Party the head of a donkey representing
the Democratic Party. Facing each other head on with hands joined, the figures of two women in
stylish red and blue power suits, dance a fine line between an arm wrestle and a serenade.
For the first time in the history of the United States we are closer to having a female President
than ever before and Washington DC based visual artist Lisa Marie Thalhammer believes that
this movement towards gender equality is reason for celebration!

Thalhammer states that Women are still paid less than men for equal work. From international
museums to local mural jams women artists are underrepresented. Repeatedly, when a woman
is the most qualified person for the office or job they are discredited or overlooked. This is why
electing women to political office is a radical, ground breaking and heroic campaign toward an
equality that transcends the limitations of party politics."
Lisa Marie Thalhammer is known for her striking and powerful portrait paintings, collages and
murals depicting strong empowered women. Her work has been exhibited locally, nationally and
internationally and has received multiple grants from the DC Commission of the Arts and
Humanities, an agency supported by the National Endowment for the Arts. Notable publications
such as Artnet News, The U.S. News World Report, The Washington Blade, and The New York
Times in addition to numerous other local publications have written about or pictured her work.
In September of 2014, she was pictured on the cover of The Washington Post Magazine Home
and Design Issue painting in her historic O Street Artist Studio. Previous to settling in
Washington in 2004, Thalhammer studied at The Art Institute of Chicago and Stafforshire
University in England before receiving a BFA in painting with a women's studies minor and art
history concentration from the University of Kansas, where she received numerous awards and
scholarships. She grew up in the St. Louis area attending Catholic girls schools and working at
her family truck stop.