Elizabeth Price
Elizabeth Price
Elizabeth "Ebee" Nicole Priceis an American artistic gymnast. Price was an alternate for the 2012 Summer Olympics Gymnastics team, the 2014 American Cup Champion, and the 2013-2014 Artistic Gymnastics World Cup All Around Series Winner. She was a member of the US Junior National Gymnastics Team from 2010 to 2012 and the US Senior National Team from 2012 to 2014. She retired from elite gymnastics in April 2014. In the fall of 2014, she joined the Stanford University women's gymnastics...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionGymnast
Date of Birth28 May 1996
CityPlanfield, NJ
If you look at my CV, just about everything I have done has come through a publicly funded institution; it is a career entirely built on that sort of support.
For women who have children, the economic difficulty of sustaining a life as an artist maybe makes it impossible. There's no maternity leave, there's no pension.
I have a pretty expanded view of what art is. I include pop music and even some sports.
Anyone could be in the orchestra, or sports team, or arts club at my school. It was precisely the kind of inclusivity that now meets with a sort of scorn and derision as a prizes-for-all culture that generates only mediocrity. There's something so insulting about the idea that including lots of people means mediocrity.
I work intentionally to try and make dense, complex things. We can move between genres and forms, from something that looks like a PowerPoint lecture to something that looks like an informercial to something that looks like a cinematic melodrama.
Because it's difficult to have a career as an artist, and in every situation where it's difficult to have a career, it's even harder for women, for all the other reasons that it's harder in other fiercely contested fields.