$1,200
Color lithograph with textile and paper collage, 18 1/2 x 9 3/4 inches, in plexiglass box
Exhibited:
Newport Harbor Art Museum, #F214, rental gallery
Mitzi Landau Gallery, c 1976-77 (“Collaboration Series”)
Miriam Schapiro (American 1923-2015)
“A decade of personal and political struggle with feminist issues crystallized in Schapiro’s pioneering and collaborative involvement in Womanhouse. Co-directing the Feminist Art Program with Judy Chicago in 1970, together they began the school year involving students in a project to allow them to project their dreams and fantasies by creating an exclusively female environment in an old house. After renovating the building they transformed it with performance and art dealing with specifically feminist issues as a means of restructuring their identities as women artists in a patriarchal art world. Schapiro has given the history of women’s ‘covert’ art a brightly lit showcase. Once-tabooed scraps; sequins, buttons, threads, rickrack, spangles, yarn; silk, taffeta, cotton, burlap, and wool, excavated from musty attics and dredged from dark closets of art history are assembled and coordinated with emotional and creative thought into ‘femmages.’ Schapiro reeducates us about a history of buried art, women’s art.” Elise LaRose
Tamarind Fellowship
Ford Foundation Grant
National Endowment of the Art
Yaddo Felllowship
State University of Iowa
Parsons School of Design, NYC
University of California
California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA
Tyler School of Art, Philadelphia.
Museum of Modern Art, N. Y.
Whitney Museum
Hirshhorn Museum
Santa Barbara Museum of Art
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Rubinstein, Charlotte Streifer. American Women Artists; from Early Times to the Present. Avon Books, NY, 1982
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Cummings, Paul. Dictionary of Contemporary American Artists, Fifth Edition. St. Martin’s Press, NY, 1988
Emanuel, Muriel et al, eds. Contemporary Artists. St. Martin’s Press/Macmillan, NY, 1983