Jacqueline Skiles (born 1937) is an American artist. She was a member of

Women Artists in Revolution Women Artists in Revolution (WAR) was a New York City-based collective of American women artists and activists that formed in 1969. They seceded from the male-dominated Art Workers' Coalition (AWC), prompted by the Whitney Museum of American Art's 1 ...

(WAR) and participated in the group's demand that the Whitney Museum include more women in its annual exhibitions. She also directed a graphics and silk-screen workshop at the

Women's Interart Center The Women's Interart Center was a New York City–based multidisciplinary arts organization conceived as an artists' collective in 1969 and formally delineated in 1970 under the auspices of Women Artists in Revolution (WAR) and Feminists in the Ar ...

. Skiles was interviewed in 1971 by Doloris Holmes for the Smithsonian's

Archives of American Art The Archives of American Art is the largest collection of primary resources documenting the history of the visual arts in the United States. More than 20 million items of original material are housed in the Archives' research centers in Washingt ...

"Art World in Turmoil"

oral history Oral history is the collection and study of historical information about individuals, families, important events, or everyday life using audiotapes, videotapes, or transcriptions of planned interviews. These interviews are conducted with people wh ...

project. Her papers from 1963 through 1980 are in the Archives of American Art. Her image is included in the 1972 poster '' Some Living American Women Artists'' by

Mary Beth Edelson Mary Beth Edelson (born Mary Elizabeth Johnson) (6 February 1933 - 20 April 2021) was an American artist and pioneer of the feminist art movement, deemed one of the notable "first-generation feminist artists." Edelson was a printmaker, book art ...

. Her photos are in the collection of the International Center of Photography.

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