Women Artists in Revolution

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Women Artists in Revolution (WAR) was a

Whitney Museum of American Art's 1969 Annual (later the Whitney Biennial), which included only eight women out of the 143 featured artists shown.[2]

In 1970, WAR members sent letters to the Whitney Museum, as well as the Museum of Modern Art, demanding both museums change their policies to be more inclusive of women artists.[3] That same year, the Ad Hoc Committee of Women Artists formed and also concentrated on the discrimination of women in the Whitney Museum's annual survey exhibitions.[2] These protest efforts led to an increase of women artists at the next Whitney Annual, rising from an average of 5–10% before 1969 to 22% in 1970.[2][4]

In 1971, some members of WAR, along with a group called Feminists in the Arts, created the Women's Interart Center, the first alternative feminist space, where they established a graphics and silk-screen workshop taught by the artist Jacqueline Skiles.[2] By 1972, WAR abandoned their efforts to change museum policies and focused more on consciousness-raising that concerned the struggles of women artists.[2] In 1973, two former members of WAR—Mary Ann Gillies and Joan Glueckman—co-founded SOHO 20 Gallery.[5]

Notable former members

References

  1. ^ A Documentary Herstory of Women Artists in Revolution (2 ed.). Pittsburgh: Know, Inc. 1973.
  2. ^
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  3. OCLC 18259773
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  4. JSTOR 29768420
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  5. ^ Lubell, Ellen (Summer 1976). "SoHo 20". Womanart. 1 (1): 16.

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