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Womanhouse
''Womanhouse'' (January 30 – February 28, 1972) was a feminist art installation and performance space organized by Judy Chicago and Miriam Schapiro, co-founders of the California Institute of the Arts ( CalArts) Feminist Art Program and was the first public exhibition of Art centered upon female empowerment. Chicago, Schapiro, their students, and women artists from the local community, including Faith Wilding, participated.Revisiting Womanhouse Chicago and Schapiro encouraged their students to use consciousness-raising techniques to generate the content of the exhibition.Recalling Womanhouse Together, the students and professors worked to build an environment where women's conventional social roles could be shown, exaggerated, and subverted. Only women were allowed to view the exhibition on its first day, after which the exhibition was open to all viewers. During the exhibition's duration, it received approximately 10,000 visitors. Origins The Feminist Art Program began a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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''Womanhouse'' (January 30 – February 28, 1972) was a feminist art installation and performance space organized by Judy Chicago and Miriam Schapiro, co-founders of the California Institute of the Arts (CalArts) Feminist Art Program and was the first public exhibition of Art centered upon female empowerment. Chicago, Schapiro, their students, and women artists from the local community, including Faith Wilding, participated.Revisiting Womanhouse Chicago and Schapiro encouraged their students to use consciousness-raising techniques to generate the content of the exhibition.Recalling Womanhouse Together, the students and professors worked to build an environment where women's conventional social roles could be shown, exaggerated, and subverted. Only women were allowed to view the exhibition on its first day, after which the exhibition was open to all viewers. During the exhibition's duration, it received approximately 10,000 visitors. Origins The Feminist Art Program began at ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sherry Brody
Sherry Brody ( – ) was an American artist and pioneering member of the feminist art movement. Brody is known for her work on the Womanhouse project. Her sculpture, ''The Dollhouse'', is in the Smithsonian Museum of American Art collection. About Sherry Brody was born on November 14, in Santa Monica, California. She died January 30, 2015. Education Brody studied at California Institute of the Arts (CalArts). She was a teaching assistant for Miriam Schapiro, who established the school's Feminist Arts Program in the early 1970s with artist Judy Chicago. Career In 1971 Brody was invited by Judy Chicago and Miriam Schapiro to participate in Womanhouse. Brody collaborated with Schapiro to create ''The'' ''Dollhouse''. This included a room within Womanhouse and a sculptural object in the form of an actual dollhouse featuring belongings gathered from women around the world in six different rooms: a parlor, a kitchen, a Hollywood star’s bedroom, a “harem” room, a nursery, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Judy Chicago
Judy Chicago (born Judith Sylvia Cohen; July 20, 1939) is an American feminist artist, art educator, and writer known for her large collaborative art installation pieces about birth and creation images, which examine the role of women in history and culture. During the 1970s, Chicago founded the first feminist art program in the United States at California State University, Fresno (formerly Fresno State College) and acted as a catalyst for feminist art and art education. Her inclusion in hundreds of publications in various areas of the world showcases her influence in the worldwide art community. Additionally, many of her books have been published in other countries, making her work more accessible to international readers. Chicago's work incorporates a variety of artistic skills, such as needlework, counterbalanced with skills such as welding and pyrotechnics. Chicago's most well known work is "The Dinner Party", which is permanently installed in the Elizabeth A. Sackler Center fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Miriam Schapiro
Miriam Schapiro (also known as Mimi) (November 15, 1923 – June 20, 2015) was a Canadian-born artist based in the United States. She was a painter, sculptor, printmaker, and a pioneer of feminist art. She was also considered a leader of the Pattern and Decoration art movement. Schapiro's artwork blurs the line between fine art and craft. She incorporated craft elements into her paintings due to their association with women and femininity. Schapiro's work touches on the issue of feminism and art: especially in the aspect of feminism in relation to abstract art. Schapiro honed in her domesticated craft work and was able to create work that stood amongst the rest of the high art. These works represent Schapiro's identity as an artist working in the center of contemporary abstraction and simultaneously as a feminist being challenged to represent women's "consciousness" through imagery. She often used icons that are associated with women, such as hearts, floral decorations, geometric ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Faith Wilding
Faith Wilding (born 1943) is a Paraguayan American multidisciplinary artist - which includes but is not limited to: watercolor, performance art, writing, crocheting, knitting, weaving, and digital art. She is also an author, educator, and activist widely known for her contribution to the progressive development of feminist art. She also fights for ecofeminism, genetics, cyberfeminism, and reproductive rights. Wilding is Professor Emerita of performance art at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Personal life and education Faith Wilding was born in 1943 in Paraguay and emigrated to the United States in 1961. She holds a degree in English from the University of Iowa. In 1969 she began her graduate studies and then received her Master of Fine Arts degree from California Institute of the Arts.Jane F. Gerhard. The Dinner Party: Judy Chicago and the Power of Popular Feminism, 1970-2007'. University of Georgia Press; 1 June 2013. . p. 27. She was married to Everett Frost, an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nancy Youdelman
Nancy Youdelman (born 1948, New York City) is a mixed media sculptor who lives and works in Clovis, California. She also taught art at California State University, Fresno from 1999 until her retirement in 2013. "Since the early 1970s Youdelman has been transforming clothing into sculpture, combining women's and girl's dresses, hats, gloves, shoes, and undergarments with a variety of organic materials (flowers, roots, leaves, and vines) and common household objects (buttons, pins, photographs, and letters). Marina La Palma writes in ''The'' magazine, "Youdelman studied costume design at Fresno State University and was drawn into the Feminist Art program founded by Judy Chicago in 1970. She went on to the Cal Arts program that followed a short time after this. Youdelman participated in the 1972 ''Womanhouse'', in which artists created elaborate installations in the various rooms of an old Hollywood mansion. Womanhouse evolved to become "the influential and long-lived Los Angeles Wo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Karen LeCocq
Karen LeCocq is an American artist. She is a nationally-known sculptor whose work combines organic materials and found objects. Biography LeCocq was born in 1949 in Santa Rosa, California. She attended Fresno State College and was a student of Judy Chicago, visiting artist. In 1970, Chicago, along with 15 female students (LeCocq included) started the first feminist art program in the United States. LeCocq received a BA degree from Fresno State College in 1971. She attended California Institute of the Arts (CalArts) in Valencia, CA in 1972 where she participated in the Feminist Art Program developed by Judy Chicago and Miriam Schapiro. The first class project of this program was a group project called Womanhouse, an installation and performance piece. LeCocq and Nancy Youdelman created a room in Womanhouse they called “Leah’s Room” from Colette’s '' Chéri''. They borrowed an antique dressing table and rug, made lace curtains and covered the bed with satin and lace to create ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jan Oxenberg
Jan Oxenberg (1950) is an American film producer, director, editor, and screenwriter. She is known for her work in lesbian feminist films and in television. Career Oxenberg was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1950. She attended Barnard College for two years where she was active in the experimental college, a collaborative, co-living, and self-directed schooling experiment between Barnard and Columbia University starting in 1968. Oxenberg transferred to California Institute of the Arts (CalArts) and initially she studied feminist art with Judy Chicago and Miriam Shapiro, but later transferring into the CalArts film school. In 1972, Oxenberg was one of the many participants in Womanhouse, the first feminist art installation and performance art (specifically within the art pieces - Three Women, Birth Trilogy, Necco Wafers). In the 1970s she was involved with ELF (education liberation front), a traveling educational resource, carrying information and books on liberation movements, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Feminist Art
Feminist art is a category of art associated with the late 1960s and 1970s feminist movement. Feminist art highlights the societal and political differences women experience within their lives. The hopeful gain from this form of art is to bring a positive and understanding change to the world, in hope to lead to equality or liberation. Media used range from traditional art forms such as painting to more unorthodox methods such as performance art, conceptual art, body art, craftivism, video, film, and fiber art. Feminist art has served as an innovative driving force towards expanding the definition of art through the incorporation of new media and a new perspective. History Historically speaking, women artists, when they existed, have largely faded into obscurity: there is no female Michelangelo or Da Vinci equivalent. In ''Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists'' Linda Nochlin wrote, "The fault lies not in our stars, our hormones, our menstrual cycles, or our empty int ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Feminist Art Program
The Feminist Art Program (FAP) was a college-level art program for women developed in 1970 by artist Judy Chicago and continued by artists Rita Yokoi, Miriam Schapiro, and others. The FAP began at Fresno State College, as a way to address gender inequities in art education, and the art world in general. In 1971, Judy Chicago and Miriam Schapiro brought the FAP to the newly formed California Institute of the Arts, leaving Rita Yokoi to run the Fresno FAP until her retirement in 1992. The FAP at California Institute of the Arts was active until 1976. The students in the Feminist Art Program read women writers, studied women artists, and made art about being a woman based on group consciousness raising sessions. Often, the program was separate from the rest of the art school to allow the women to develop in a greenhouse-like environment and away from discerning critiques. While the separatist ideology has been critiqued as reinforcing gender, the FAP has made a lasting impression on fem ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paula Harper
Paula Hays Harper ( Fish; November 17, 1930 – June 3, 2012) was an American art historian, credited as "one of the first art historians to bring a feminist perspective to the study of painting and sculpture". She co-authored a biography on the French impressionist Camille Pissarro and was a well-known contemporary art critic. Life and work Paula Fish was born in Scituate, Massachusetts, an only child, and raised in Philadelphia. In her 20s she moved to New York City, where she was a dancer with the modern dance company Munt-Brooks (later known as " The Changing Scene" dance). After a dance-related injury she decided to study art history at Hunter College in New York and earned her bachelor's and master's degree. In 1976 she earned her PhD in art history from Stanford University, being one of the first graduate students of Linda Nochlin. Harper was married twice and never had children; she preferred using her two married names "Hays Harper" because of a dislike of her maide ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
CalArts
The California Institute of the Arts (CalArts) is a private art university in Santa Clarita, California. It was incorporated in 1961 as the first degree-granting institution of higher learning in the US created specifically for students of both the visual and performing arts. It offers Bachelor of Fine Arts, Master of Fine Arts, Master of Arts, and Doctor of Musical Arts degrees through its six schools: Art, Critical Studies, Dance, Film/Video, Music, and Theater. The school was first envisioned by many benefactors in the early 1960s, staffed by a diverse array of professionals including Nelbert Chouinard, Walt Disney, Lulu Von Hagen, and Thornton Ladd. CalArts students develop their own work, over which they retain control and copyright, in a workshop atmosphere. History CalArts was originally formed in 1961, as a merger of the Chouinard Art Institute (founded 1921) and the Los Angeles Conservatory of Music (founded 1883). Both of the formerly existing institutions were going ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
