Feminist Artists

Suzanne Lacy, Nancy Spero, Dara Birnbaum, Faith Ringgold, Sheila Levrant de Bretteville, Kate Millett, June Wayne, Martha Rosler, Miriam Schapiro, Mary Kelly, Faith Wilding and Judy Chicago are a few of mostly American women among thousands who are associated with feminist art.

Known historians, curators and critics of feminist art are Arlene Raven, Catherine de Zegher, Eleanor Tufts, Griselda Pollock and Lucy Lippard. The Guerrilla Girls are the feminist agitators of the art-world.

The CalArts feminist art program was an important center for the Los Angeles feminist artist movement through the 1970’s and 1980’s. It was the catalyst for the Woman’s Building that was organized mostly by a group of feminist artists who were associated with its feminist art program. CalArts provided the venue for meetings, workshops, exhibitions and performances that occurred on a regular basis.

In New York during the 1970’s the Women’s Interart Center was founded and is still in operation today and for a number of years in the early 1970’s New York also hosted the Women’s Video Festival.

Many female artists continue to meet and organize nonprofit galleries, collectives and working groups in local communities around the world to provide a place for women’s stories to be told through feminist art.


To see the book titled WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution click on this image:  
WACK!: Art and the Feminist Revolution