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Feminist Art: Women
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The Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art celebrates its first anniversary with a panel of women who are changing the face of philanthropy. Moderator Carol Jenkins, President of Women's Media Center and a board member of the African Medical Research Foundation, leads benefactors Jennifer Buffett, Barbara Dobkin, and Helen LaKelly Hunt as they discuss the goals and methods of their activist philanthropy.
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Like The Dinner Party, The Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art will be an unprecedented, powerful monument to and for women and their achievements. The unveiling of The Dinner Party is just one of three inaugural exhibitions that the Center will feature. Accompanying Judy Chicago's piece will be Pharaohs, Queens, and Goddesses, the first of a series of multimedia, biographical shows illuminating The Dinner Party's themes and figures. Finally, the Center will house an international survey of contemporary feminist art entitled Global Feminisms.
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Feminist art history must be considered as part of this discussion. Its proponents have demanded that women's arts from all cultures, of all periods, be included in studies and exhibitions of art. In 1971 Linda Nochlin (American, contemporary art critic) wrote a landmark article, "Why Have There Been No GREAT Women Artists?" giving tremendous momentum to feminist scholarship concerning women in the arts. Numerous histories of women artists were published in the 1970s, and several others have appeared in the years since then.
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In 1976, the Women’s Art Registry of Minnesota opened a gallery in downtown Minneapolis—and introduced the Twin Cities to a feminist approach to art. WARM was a significant presence both nationally and locally, offering educational workshops, a mentoring program, and an alternative exhibit space for Minnesota women artists. Its longevity and success rivaled those of feminist art collectives in New York, Los Angeles, and Chicago, and renowned artists and critics such as Miriam Schapiro, Judy Chicago, Harmony Hammond, and Lucy Lippard participated in WARM’s programs and exhibits.
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Feminist art is not simply art by women, but art that exposes important world issues, according to the exhibition organizers. The art focuses on content as well as medium. Feminist art deals with subjects such as the human body, race, class, sexuality, capitalism, globalization, politics, power, domination and beauty.
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Feminist activist art methods frequently draw on expertise from outside the art world to engage the participation of the audience or community and distribute a message to the public. It often includes non-art world audiences that include men and women from all walks of life, not just a few educated connoisseurs. This art places high values on the lives and practices of all people, including women, children, and men, respecting differences in race, class, sexuality, nationality, and gender.
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