Jann Haworth has lived and worked in Utah since 1997. She holds two unusual distinctions: a female Pop artist and co-designer for the Beatle’s Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band album cover (for which she received a Grammy). Her art is in the collections of Tate Britain, the Utah Arts Council, UMFA Utah, and the Walker Art Center. She has had 16 solo shows in Europe and the US. Currently she is creative director for the Leonardo Museum, Salt Lake City. Her work SLC Pepper, a collaborative mural based on the Sgt. Pepper cover, can be seen day or night in downtown Salt Lake City.
Working Girl: Jann Haworth on Maid (1966)
With the passing of Hugh Hefner on September 27, 2017, we revisit a 2015 reflection by Jann Haworth, the Pop artist best known for co-designing the cover for the Beatles’s acclaimed 1967 album, Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band. Here, she tells how a birthday gift intended for Hefner—a life-sized Playboy Bunny—became a feminist artwork. “Despite the short skirt, the satin—broderie anglaise—she is not the object of the ‘play’ boy: she is a working girl.”