Instructress Judy Chicago along with fifteen female students pioneered this program utilizing key strategies to develop the early Feminist Art movement. This movement included collaboration that used “Female Technologies” such as performance, video with early forms of media critique and costume.
Judy Chicago and painter Miriam Schapiro founded the Feminist Art program at California Institute of the Arts (CalArts) in Los Angeles. Students from CalArts in 1972 created a month long installation in an empty house titled WomanHouse. At the same time women artists in New York began coming together to meet and hold exhibitions as well.
To provide avenues of visibility for art created by feminist artists, galleries such as Artemisia in Chicago and A.I.R. in New York were formed.
