'The Feminist Art Project' Launches Nationwide

Tuesday, 19 December 2006 11:41

Nationwide, USA – The Feminist Art Project is happening across the nation and around the world, beginning in 2006 and running through 2009.  The brainchild of renowned artist Judy Chicago, the late feminist art critic and writer Arlene Raven, and Susan Fisher Sterling of the National Museum of Women in the Arts, The Feminist Art Project is a constellation of exhibitions, symposia, publications, and special events created by artists, curators, writers, art historians, and art dealers.

Spearheaded by regional coordinators across the country, The Feminist Art Project makes visible the impact of individual women artists on contemporary art practice; it aims to guarantee their inclusion in the cultural record, past, present, and future.  The Feminist Art Project’s honorary committee includes such luminaries as Whitney Museum curator, Chrissie Iles; Elizabeth A. Sackler of the Elizabeth A. Sackler Center Foundation, Brooklyn Museum, artist Faith Ringgold; and writer/activist Gloria Steinem. 

It has been thirty-five years since Linda Nochlin published her revolutionary essay “Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists?” which helped Launch the Feminist Art Movement.  In March 2007, a confluence of crucial exhibitions will examine feminist art in both its historic and contemporary forms.  March highlights include the opening of the Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art at the Brooklyn Museum, the first and only center of its kind.  The Sackler Center will become the permanent home of Judy Chicago’s iconic work, The Dinner Party (1974-1979); it opens with Global Feminisms, an international exhibition of contemporary art curated by Maura Reilly and Linda Nochlin.

On the West Coast, WACK ! Art and the Feminist Revolution, curated by Connie Butler, opens at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, with subsequent stops at NMWA in Washington and P.S.1 in New York.  More provocative events are being organized from Florida to Washington State and all points in between.  Leading off the project is the show, How American Women Artists Invented Postmodernism, 1970-1975, curated by Judith K. Brodsky and Ferris Olin.  The show originated at Rutgers University in 2006 and will continue to travel to museums throughout New Jersey in 2007.

For a complete calendar of events visit The Feminist Art Project website at http://feministartproject.rutgers.edu/ where you can locate and post exhibitions and events that reflect the project’s mission. Public participation is encouraged !