If you ask someone to name five artists, they will likely name prominent male artists, but how many

If you ask someone to name five artists, they will likely name prominent male artists, but how many people can list five women artists? Throughout March’s Women’s History Month, we will be joining institutions around the world to answer this very question posed by the National Museum of Women in the Arts (NWMA). We will be featuring a woman artist every day this month, and highlighting artists in our current exhibition Half the Picture: A Feminist Look at the Collection which explores a wide range of art-making, focusing on enduring political subjects—encompassing gender, race, and class—that remain relevant today. The show is on view until March 31, 2019.Together we hope to draw attention to the gender and race imbalance in the art world, inspire conversation and awareness, and hopefully add a few more women to everyone’s lists.In 1972, Miriam Schapiro collaborated with Judy Chicago and twenty-one of their students from the Feminist Art Program at the California Institute of the Arts to create the famed “Womanhouse” installation, central to the feminist art movement of the 1970s. Following this radical artistic endeavor, Miriam Schapiro developed her practice to revitalize and celebrate the breadth of work made by women artisans, whose impact has historically been diminished. Schapiro began collaging materials associated with women’s domestic work to create her noted “femmages.” As she wrote in 1977, “I wanted to validate the traditional activities of women, to connect myself to the unknown women artists who had made quilts, who had done the invisible ‘women’s work’ of civilization. I wanted to acknowledge them, to honor them.” Schapiro’s “femmage,” like Faith Ringgold’s narrative quilts, opened the path for the re-evaluation of anonymous art done by women.Posted by Chiara MannarinoMiriam Schapiro (American, 1923-2015). Anonymous was a Woman, 1976. Acrylic and collage on paper, 30 x 22 in. (76.2 x 55.9 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Amy Wolf and John Hatfield in memory of Cynthia Africano, 2005.61. © artist or artist’s estate (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, 2005.61_PS1.jpg) -- source link
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