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Tatyana Fazlalizadeh is an American artist and activist. She was born in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma in October 12, 1985. Tatyana was influenced by her mother to become an artists. Her mother was an artists as well as an art teacher. Tatyana didn't really start on making her own art until she was in high school. She attended the University of the Arts in Philadelphia and graduated in 2007 with a fine arts bachelor's degree. She mostly an oil painter and she started getting noticed when she made work of Barack Obama which was also in a book name Art For Obama: Designing Manifest Hope and the Campaign for Change. She gained notoriety in 2012 with her art/activist project Stop Telling Women To Smile by using the streets to get her message across.

Her project Stop Telling Women To Smile has created a political movement which addresses gender based public harassment. Her medium of wheatpaste and posters have been being plastered everywhere. The original posters were first displayed in New York City but has gotten so large and popular which ended up getting to other states as well. The project was based on interviews Tatyana had with women about what they have faced through public sexual harassment. Her posters have a sketched portrait of a women along with a caption responding or retaliating to the sexual harrassment. Street harassment has become a serious issue for women around the world and I think that it's great that a Tatyana is using the streets as her canvas where this harassment is occurring.

For more information check the site:
http://stoptellingwomentosmile.com/