Beauty in Transition (2013-16) — Social Art Library

A Project by Jody Wood

Beauty in Transition established a pop-up mobile hair salon providing beauty services including a hair wash, cut, colour and/or style service to willing participants living in homeless shelters.

Beauty in Transition is an artistic project created by multi-media artist Jody Wood, that established a pop-up mobile hair salon providing beauty services including a hair wash, cut, color and/or style service to willing participants living in homeless shelters. By provoking face-to-face dialogue in a calming recuperative salon environment, this project aims to facilitate empathetic understanding and to unravel the reductive label of homelessness. The project has operated on invitations from art Institutions to serve homeless shelters in Philadelphia, PA, New York City, Denver, Colorado, and Lawrence, KS.

2014 ABOG Fellow Jody Wood brings her mobile beauty salon to nine homeless shelters over three months in New York City. FIELDWORKS is a short documentary series that  explores the beauty, rigor, and impact of socially engaged art. Explore: abladeofgrass.org/fieldworks

More information:

Website: http://www.beautyintransition.org/

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Jody Wood

Jody Wood is an artist based in New York City.

“I am intrigued by interpersonal relationships – how they form, how they dissolve, and their delicate underpinnings. I approach my artwork as an opportunity to explore this fascination, and consequently have moved increasingly toward working directly with members of the public. Through my continuing investigation of private needs and public expectations, my work presents a dialogue between the external battles we must face and the internal landscape we need to preserve.”

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