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Issue 47 2008
Minnesota's Hot Mamas:
An interview with Joanna Inglot
By JENNIE KLEIN
[1]KLEIN: In your
book WARM: A Feminist Art Collective in Minnesota you chronicle the
history of the Women's Art Registry of Minnesota, a woman's art collective and
gallery based in Minneapolis. In the introduction, you write that "thirty years
after the founding of the WARM collective no studies about it had been written
or published, even though the group has been well-known in Minnesota and recognized
nationwide as one of the major feminist art cooperatives in the United States
(xiv)." I wonder if you could begin by talking about how and why you became
interested in WARM and what motivated you to propose an exhibition of 12
members of the WARM collective to the Weisman Art Museum of the University of
Minnesota?
[2] INGLOT: I first heard about WARM when I began teaching
art history at the College of St. Catherine in St. Paul. One of my colleagues
in the Art Department told me that the first registry of slides of a feminist
art collective called WARM had been housed in my office. Since that moment I
have been haunted by the spirit of WARM and I felt compelled to learn more
about the collective. I began to meet artists who once belonged to the group. I
got to know their work. Over time I developed a strong sense of professional
commitment to document the work of this remarkable group of women who have gone
practically unnoticed in the field of feminist art history. I was teaching a
course entitled "Women in the Arts" at the same time and came across a photograph
of the WARM Collective in Norma Broude and Mary Garrard, ed., The Power of
Feminist Art, but that was it. I was surprised to discover that although
many feminist circles in the country had heard of WARM and that the collective
was well known in the Twin Cities there were no significant art historical
analyses or historical studies that examined the nature and the contributions
of the collective to feminist art movement and/or cultural life in Minnesota.
Moreover, I realized that beyond the importance of this group for feminist art
history that the members of WARM had produced some very good work. After seeing
the work of many of the artists associated with WARM I was struck with the
quality. I remember thinking that their art was as good as anything I was
teaching about in my Women in the Arts class. I think it was that recognition
that motivated me to propose an exhibit to the Weisman Art Museum. Since the
museum does not have a large exhibition space, I had to limit the exhibit to 12
members. I selected long-standing members whose work gave a good cross-section
of work produced by the collective.
[3] KLEIN: How did working on the exhibition "WARM: 12
Artists of the Women's Art Registry of Minnesota" and book/catalogue differ
from writing your first book: The Figurative Sculpture of Magdalena
Abakanowicz: Bodies, Environments, Myths? Did you encounter any challenges
by shifting your emphasis from a well-known artist to a group of feminist
artists that had almost disappeared from art history/history?
 Figure 1: Carole Fisher. If I've Told You/If I've Told You a Hundred Times, 1983. Installation View: "WARM: 12 Artists of the Women's Art Registry of Minnesota." Image courtesy of Weisman Art Museum, University of Minnesota. Click for larger version | [4] INGLOT: My experience of working on these two books was
quite different although surprisingly there were still many similarities.
Abakanowicz was well-known but scholarship on her work was rather skimpy. Abaknowicz's
work and her persona were veiled by the myth of the outsider loner artist who
worked in the deep isolation of Communist Eastern Europe. Yet she is someone
who has become a leading voice for artists behind the Iron Curtain. One of my
major goals was to de-mythologize the artist and to present her work in the
context of Polish sculpture and in dialogue with the international art scene. I
also addressed the complexity of the artist's attitudes toward contemporary
politics and the troubled history of her native country. In that book I wanted
to draw attention to the lack of scholarship on the art of Poland and the marginalization
of the entire region of post-World War II East-Central Europe caused by Cold War
biases that impelled critics and art historians to see Eastern Europe as a
uniformly backward and culturally isolated region, mimicking the developments
of the Soviet Union. The political climate in which WARM developed was
obviously quite different. I noticed, however, that the history of WARM also
suffered from similar cultural and regional marginalization. The contemporary
art produced in the Midwest, including Minnesota, was and still is often seen
by critics and art historians as parochial, derivative, and unworthy of close
scrutiny. Therefore, in this project I felt it was important to challenge this
general outlook in order to present this group in a larger national context. I
wanted to demonstrate the lively artistic and feminist environment that
developed in the Twin Cities during the 1970s-1990s. In both cases, I had to create
a context for an artist/group of artists and recreate the cultural climate in
which they worked. But, of course, working with one artist versus a collective
is quite different. The WARM project required many more negotiations, which
sometimes were difficult or even impossible to achieve.
[5] KLEIN: You interviewed many artists involved with WARM
for this book, including a number of women who didn't end up in the exhibition,
such as Catherine Jordan, who worked as an administrator at WARM, Judy Stone
Nunneley, a printmaker, and Terry Schupbach-Gordon, an artist and disability
activist. How did you decide whom to interview? Did you seek out certain women
in order to get a more balanced account of the WARM gallery?
[6] INGLOT: There were one hundred members of WARM and I knew
from the beginning that I would not be able to interview all of them in the
time frame I had for this project. While doing research in the archives I
created a list of those I felt I needed to interview. The actual interviews led
me to other people because of specific issues I wanted to address in my book. I
definitely did my best to get the most balanced perspective I possibly could,
and interviewed many women who did not end up in the book or in the exhibition.
[7] KLEIN: The task of organizing and curating the
exhibition must have been daunting. As you pointed out, the roster of members
that belonged to WARM from 1976-1991 has 100 names on it. You made the decision
to include 12 artists: Harriet Bart, Hazel Belvo, Sally Brown, Elizabeth
Erikson, Carole Fisher, Linda Gammell, Vesna Krezich Kittelson, Joyce Lyon,
Susan McDonald, Patricia Olson, Sandra Menefee Taylor, and Jantje Visscher.
Most of these artists were involved with WARM for an extended period of time.
Carole Fisher, for example, whose installation on the topic of rape is reproduced
above (figure 1), was responsible for starting the innovative Arts Core Program
dedicated to feminist education at the College of St. Catherine. After that
program folded, she was instrumental in helping to found WARM. The one
exception is Linda Gammell who although a founding member was only involved for
3 years. Why was she included along with the other, longer term members?
[8] INGLOT: One of the greatest difficulties of curating the
WARM exhibition, as it always is with any substantial collective, was the
selection of artists. Because of limited space at the Weisman Art Museum, I had
to limit the numbers of featured artists significantly. Out of 100 artists who
belong to WARM, I selected twelve, which I believed represented the diversity
of the group in style, subject matter, mediums and engagement with feminist
issues. I focused on long-term members. Almost all of them were in WARM from
the beginning to the [fiscal] crisis in 1986. I added Linda Gammell (who was
one of the founders of WARM) mainly because she was a photographer, and I
wanted to feature some photography. I was also interested in Gammell because
she continued to work in collaboration with Sandra Menefee Taylor. This was a
feminist collaboration that developed from WARM and I wanted to highlight the
notion of collaboration as feminist practice in the show.
[9] KLEIN: What sort of careers have the artists included in
the WARM exhibition at the Weisman Art Museum had since WARM closed?
[10] INGLOT: Most of them have worked as professors of art,
teaching in local colleges and universities, Minneapolis College of Art and
Design, and the University of Minnesota. Some developed independent careers or
run art studio programs. The majority, however, have been working as art
educators since their involvement with WARM.
[11] KLEIN: You credit the pivotal stimulus for the
formation of WARM's feminist identity with art education, specifically the
curriculum and events taking place at the College of St. Catherine in St. Paul.
A 1973 lecture by Judy Chicago inspired Carole Fisher, Sr. Judith Stoughton,
and Sr. Ann Jennings to found the Arts Core Program as part of the Visual Arts
Department. Modeled on the FSW (Feminist Studio Workshop) founded by Chicago,
Arlene Raven, and Sheila de Bretteville for the Los Angeles Woman's Building,
the Arts Core Program encouraged students to make work out of personal
experience, consciousness raising sessions, and feminist concerns. It also
sponsored workshops and lectures by feminist artists and scholars including Raven,
de Bretteville, Miriam Schapiro, Ruth Iskin, Betsy Damon, Elaine de Kooning,
Marisol Escobar, and Lucy Lippard. The Arts Core Program only lasted for one
year. Could you discuss how the radical pedagogical approach of the Arts Core
Program influenced WARM's program of exhibitions, lectures, conferences, and
pedagogy?
[12] INGLOT: I would like to clarify that my assertion
regarding the impact of the Arts Core Program at St. Catherine referred only to
the early stages in the formation of the collective. The Arts Core Program
lasted one year, but it brought many important feminist artists and speakers to
the College of St. Catherine that women artists from the Twin Cities flocked to
see and hear. Practically everybody who was involved in organizing WARM credits
these events at St. Kate's as path-breaking. Lectures by feminist artists and
critics and exhibitions of feminist art on view in the college art gallery galvanized
the emerging feminist community there and inspired artists such as Fischer,
Hazel Belvo, Sally Brown, Elizabeth Erickson, Linda Gammell, Joyce Lyon, and
many others to create a collective. The discussions, debates, and information
about feminism in the US that the Arts Core Program provided were crucial in
the consolidation of the WARM collective in the mid-1970s. I don't believe
that the Arts Core Program's radical pedagogical approach had as much influence
on the program of exhibitions, lectures, conferences, and pedagogy that later
took place at WARM Gallery by itself. It was the climate that it created in the
early 1970s in the Twin Cities and the connections established with other
feminist artists in the country during this amazing time at St. Kate's that
were crucial for the emergence of WARM. I think WARM modeled itself more on the
feminist collectives that were established on the east and west coasts,
particularly the west coast and the Los Angeles Woman's Building rather than on
the pedagogy of the Arts Core Program. For instance, WARM appropriated many
organizational features of the New York's A.I.R Gallery and their educational
philosophy was inspired by the FSW and the Los Angeles Woman's Building.
[13] KLEIN: During its 15 year run, WARM mounted a number of
exhibitions and sponsored a major conference in honor of its 10th year
anniversary. Could you discuss several of the most significant exhibitions and
events that took place under its auspices?
[14] INGLOT: From the onset, the exhibitions and events
produced by WARM were characterized by innovative programming. The Visiting
Artist Program brought many well recognized women artists from all over the
country to the Twin Cities. WARM's programming culminated with the national
conference "Contemporary Women Artists in the Visual Arts" that took place in
1986. From 1980 to 1986 WARM became a hub of feminist cultural life in the
Twin Cities. As their visibility increased, WARM members took the opportunity to
stage large-scale exhibitions, which ranged from exhibitions of historical
feminist art to the work of artists who were members of WARM. "Private
Collectors and Art by Women" (1984), for instance, featured art by prominent 19th
and 20th century women artists such as Mary Cassatt, Rosa Bonheur,
Käthe Kollwitz, Sonia Delaunay, Helen Frankenthaler, Grace Hartigan, and Louise
Nevelson. "WARM: A Landmark Exhibition" (1984) at the Minnesota Museum of Art
at the Landmark Center in St. Paul—the largest and the most comprehensive
show of WARM—showed the work of 37 WARM members and drew hundreds of
visitors to the show. One of the greatest accomplishments of WARM (and the
event of which they were most proud) was the national multidisciplinary
conference that they organized in the fall of 1986 to mark the 10th
year anniversary of the Gallery. This conference brought together more than 400
women artists, art historians, and critics from across the country. It was
literally an extravaganza of panels, lectures, film projections, discussions,
and exhibition tours, combined with music, parties, and other kind of
entertainment. Well-renowned speakers such as Sandra Langer, Eleanor Heartney,
Elsa Honing Fine, Joanna Freuh, Judith Wilson, and Patricia Mainardi presented
at the conference. Performance artists Besty Damon, Suzanne Lacy, and Laurie
Beth Clark, along with painters May Stevens and Jaune Quick-to-See-Smith came to
the Twin Cities to take part in the conference. Along with the conference, WARM
sponsored exhibits in the Twin Cities' museums and galleries, and arranged bus
tours for people so they could move easily from one place to another. It was a
major celebration—and WARM, indeed, had much to celebrate as it
established itself not only as a prominent local gallery but as a nationally recognized
participant in feminist culture.
[15] KLEIN: The sheer diversity of programs, conferences,
visiting artists and exhibitions that WARM produced, in spite of its dependence
on public funding, membership dues, and the sweat equity of its members is really
quite astonishing, particularly in comparison with the Woman's Building, which
began to lose steam by the mid-80s. I can't help but wonder if this had
something to do with the type of art exhibited at WARM, which was object-based.
Unlike the A.I.R. Gallery, the FSW, and the Woman's Building, where alternative
art forms such as performance, video, and installation were embraced, WARM's
gallery showed mostly painting, which is more marketable. Were there any spaces
in Minnesota that did show more experimental feminist art? Why were the members
of WARM less inclined to embrace more experimental media?
[16] INGLOT: Indeed, WARM was dominated by painters, but
there were also artists working with performance, installation, video,
photography, and/or graphic design. I think that the predominance of painters
in the group can be explained by the rather traditional training that many of
these artists received in the Midwestern colleges and universities that they
attended. In addition, the selection process for new members set in place at
WARM was probably more rigorous and controlled than in other places. The initial
group of governing members who were responsible for establishing the gallery was
comprised primarily of painters who adopted a highly selective screening
procedure for admittance to the gallery. I think they were probably more
sympathetic to artists who showed similar directions to them in their work.
Linda Gammell and Bonita Wall were exceptions, especially in the beginning, and
they aligned themselves with a film collective and other smaller collectives
active in St. Paul, where they could show more experimental work. But there was
not another place besides WARM for young women artists to show experimental
feminist work in Minneapolis on a consistent basis. WARM exhibited some
experimental work but perhaps not as much as one could see in New York City or
Los Angeles.
[17] KLEIN: Janice Helleloid, who was a member of WARM from
1976-1977, complained in the Lesbian issue of Heresies that there had
been "two specific instances of the art world in the Twin Cities politically
using the label 'lesbian' to exert community control over women's groups (44)."
The first time happened when the Women's Arts Core Program was terminated after
one year amidst charges of being a lesbian program. Subsequently, WARM was also
labeled a lesbian organization, causing many of its members to become concerned
about the gallery's public image. Could you address the issue of lesbianism in
relationship to the Women's Arts Core Program and WARM? Why do you think that lesbianism
was of much more concern to the feminist art community in Minnesota than it was
in either Los Angeles or New York?
[18] INGLOT: The Arts Core Program was terminated mainly
because of disagreements, rumors, and accusations that were spread by some
faculty members of the Art Department, who objected to the general conceptual
basis of the program, the presumed financial burden for the department, and
inappropriate pedagogical methods (or what they called "psychological manipulation"
of young women) along with the alleged propagation of lesbianism. In fact, most
of these were discussed openly at the faculty meetings during the review of the
program at St. Kate's. The issue of lesbianism, however, was never addressed
outwardly. It circulated as a rumor, spread by faculty who were nervous about
the fact that the instruction was carried out "behind the closed doors"
(intended in actuality to reflect the "room of one's own" idea). I believe that
some faculty who taught in the program were seen as lesbians, which also
contributed to all the hype around lesbianism in the program. The official
documents deposited in the archives, however, do not show that this was an
important issue in the formal evaluation of the program by the Educational
Policies Committee at St. Catherine. Janice Helleloid, just like many other
students in the program, must have felt that these rumors contributed to the
termination of a valuable and successful program. All of the students were hurt
and disappointed because of that unstated charge.
[19] INGLOT: The same problem showed up at WARM. Helleloid
was right-- the WARM gallery was seen by many in the art world and the
community as a "dyke gallery." The truth was that many of the members of WARM
were lesbians, quite a few of whom were out. Most of them were uncomfortable
with discussing their sexuality publicly. Being aware that they lived in a
homophobic society (be it Minnesota or other parts of the country), many were
wary of becoming marginalized as a politicized lesbian community. Again, there
was nothing official coming from the art world that labeled WARM as a lesbian
gallery. There were only rumors and perceptions that it was a lesbian gallery floating
around. Therefore many WARM members wanted to distance themselves from that
idea in fear that it would negatively impact the reception of their work and
their gallery.
[20] INGLOT: I would like to point out that in the Twin
Cities lesbian activism and culture was strong--just not at WARM. It flourished
primarily in the Coffee House Collective and other women's spaces such as
Amazon Bookstore, the Lesbian Resource Center, Chrysalis, Art at the Foot of
the Mountain Theater, and Twin Cities Female Liberation Group. WARM hosted
events with lesbian poets and writers, including those associated with literary
groups such as the Loft, Women Poets of the Twin Cities, and other collectives,
but the gallery never organized their own exhibitions or symposia on lesbian
issues, and rarely showed works with specifically lesbian content. I think that
WARM was not as radical and politicized as A.I.R, SoHO 20 in New York or the
feminist art collectives in California. The Midwest, in general, and Minnesota
with its Lutheran cultural tradition in particular, was much more conservative
in regards to tackling issues of sexuality--particularly lesbian sexuality. These
debates did not spread much beyond the places that I mentioned above during
this period.
[21] KLEIN: Do you think
that the members of WARM were better able to deal with issues regarding race
and disability?
[22] INGLOT: Oh, no, not at all. In fact this can be seen as
one of the major criticisms of WARM. Throughout the 1970s and 1980s, WARM
rarely tackled issues of difference and diversity. There were members in the
group, such as Terry Schupbach, who called for a more radical feminist agenda
within the collective and who actively championed the interests of
disadvantaged groups. She argued that WARM should welcome black women artists,
ethnic minorities, and artists with disabilities. The majority of WARM was not
interested in moving in this direction. Like other second-wave feminist groups,
WARM was dominated by white, middle-class, well educated women who were focused
on their own interests. By and large, they treated the issues of race,
ethnicity, and disability as secondary concerns. Artists of color were not well
integrated into the women's art movement and exhibition planning across the
country. In Minnesota, which was and still is predominantly white and Northern
European in heritage, this rift was even larger. In a region with small
minority communities, especially in comparison with New York and Southern
California, there seemed less urgency to debate many of the racial issues that
strongly resonated elsewhere. Frankly, there was not much consciousness about
this issue at that time among the members of the collective. WARM responded to
the issue of multiculturalism and disability gradually over the 1980s and early
1990s. The most systematic attempt to reach minority women artists in Minnesota
appeared after 1986, when WARM officially amended its mission statement to
promote the work of women artists of all races and ethnic backgrounds. These
efforts became most visible in their Mentor Program after 1987, when the
organization actively sought women of color in the Twin Cities to join the
ranks of its mentors and protˇgˇes.
[23] KLEIN: After 1986, several members of WARM, including
Sandra Menefee Taylor, Jantje Visscher, and Susan McDonald, were involved in
community outreach to impoverished rural communities through the MAX (Minnesota
Arts Experience) Program. Do you think that the impetus to do that sort of
community outreach came from the history of grassroots activism in Minnesota,
which you describe in so much detail? How did this outreach compare with the
kinds of programs generated on the east and west coasts?
[24] INGLOT: I think that the community outreach by members
of WARM was unique in the history of feminist collectives. I really don't know
of efforts by other collectives to support new generations of artists like WARM
did through their Mentor Program, or to reach out to culturally disadvantage
communities in rural areas of the state by organizing workshops, lectures, and
exhibitions in these areas. I believe that this commitment to community was
deeply rooted in the Minnesota history of grassroots activism, which goes back
to the 19th century. Scandinavian and Lutheran traits of social
activity and community solidarity was ingrained in Minnesota culture and they
resurfaced strongly in the socio-political ferment of the late 1960s and early
1970s, shaping much of the thinking of WARM and other collectives. By and
large, all of these collectives were influenced by this heritage, which I discuss
in much more detail in my book. WARM really took an extra step by running
programs in small towns and rural regions. Some of the members of WARM were
born in rural Minnesota, others were only a generation removed from it, and
they were interested in giving back to their community and reaching out to
rural populations. No other women's art collective in the country developed
such generous outreach programming.
[25] KLEIN: Even as the members of WARM were expanding their
definition of what it meant to be a practicing artist by developing this unique
community outreach program, the gallery and collective were falling on hard
times. Eventually the gallery closed in 1991. The multidisciplinary conference
that WARM sponsored in 1986 was tremendously successful. At the same time, it
precipitated a fiscal crisis from which it was difficult to recover. Many long
term members, disillusioned with the prospects of the collective and burnt out
on volunteer work, withdrew around that time. What were some of the other
factors that contributed to the demise of WARM?
[26] INGLOT: The national conference ended up with a
tremendous budget deficit; however WARM managed to pay off the debt within the
next two years or so. The gallery could have survived this crisis if the problems
had been confined to a budget deficit. There were many artists who were
committed to keeping the gallery open and WARM was still attracting the interest
of younger women artists. But after the departure of many experienced key
members in 1986, WARM could never attain the same cohesiveness and commitment.
Many members believed that working together to build the gallery and organize
the entire program was the glue that held the collective together. The new
generation of artists who joined WARM later on did not have the same attachment
to the place. Another important factor in the demise of WARM was that times had
changed. There was a general backlash against feminism during the 1980s brought
about by the rise of conservative ideology waged by right-wing politicians in
the US. This resulted in limited funding, which significantly restricted the various
activities of the gallery. Another factor was the rise of academic feminist
theory and criticism indebted to postmodern and poststructuralist theories. The
definition of feminist art changed dramatically from the early 70s to the early
90s. WARM, which arose from the cultural feminism of the 70s could not find the
same unified sense of purpose amid new debates within feminism, and would have
needed to radically redefine itself as a feminist organization to survive this
crisis.
[27] KLEIN: You have pointed out that in spite of the
renewed interest in 70s feminist art in recent years there has been a disregard
for the developments and accomplishments of feminist art collectives working
outside of the cultural hubs of New York and Southern California. 2007 saw a
renewed interest in feminist art, particularly historical feminist art. Two
major feminist exhibitions with an international focus—"Wack! The Art of
the Feminist Revolution" and "Global Feminisms"—opened almost
simultaneously in Los Angeles and New York. ARTnews, which first
published Linda Nochlin's "Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists," in 1971,
devoted the February 2007 issue to Feminist Art. The Feminist Art Project (http://feministartproject.rutgers.edu/),
based at Rutgers University in New Jersey organized a symposium in conjunction
with the College Art Association Meeting in New York City devoted to feminist
art and art history. Given the events of the past year, do you still feel that
the feminist art organizations in the Midwest have been left out of this
history, and if so, why?
[28] INGLOT: I really appreciate the recent efforts by
feminist art historians and critics, museum professionals, and other committed
activists to revive interest in feminist art in the United States, including
the feminist art made in the 70s. The year 2007 was indeed remarkable because two
major feminist exhibitions opened, both of which were excellent. These
exhibitions were both historic and international in scale, highlighting
contemporary developments in feminist art around the world. Maura Reilly, the curator
of "Global Feminisms," came to see the WARM exhibition. We did a
co-presentation on feminism in the US and around the globe. It felt wonderful
to stage the exhibition at the Weisman Art Museum in Minneapolis at the same
time as "Wack!" and "Global Feminisms" and experience the renewed power of
feminist art in the art world. We had to wait for this a long time. The
Feminist Art Project, too, is another important initiative that promises to
ensure that feminist art stays at the center of attention and will be well
documented in the future. I am particularly grateful that the Feminist Art
Project tries to facilitate a network with regional centers throughout the US
because as I have shown in my book feminist art and debates are happening
outside of New York and California. In spite of all this attention, we still
don't know much about feminist art and feminist art organizations in the
Midwest. When I looked for organizations with which to compare WARM, for
example, I had no information on comparable organizations in other parts of the
Midwest. I would like to know something more about the feminist collectives and
the feminist art scene in Chicago, Detroit, or Cleveland, for instance. It is
not just that Midwest is languishing; other parts of the country are as well. I
think that the preference for art made in New York and California has been so
deeply engrained in our cultural consciousness that it will take sustained
scholarly and critical interest in feminist art made outside of those areas to
change the landscape of feminist art history.
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Art: The American Movement of the 1970s, History and Impact. New York:
Harry N. Abrams Inc., Publishers, 1994.
Butler, Cornelia H. and Lisa Gabrielle Mark, ed. Wack!
Art and the Feminist Revolution. Los Angeles: The Museum of Contemporary
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Inglot, Joanna. The Figurative Sculpture of Magdalena
Abakanowicz: Bodies, Environments, Myths. Berkeley: University of
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London: Merrell, 2007.
Contributor’s Note:
JOANNA INGLOT is Associate Professor and Edith M. Kelso
Chair of Art History at Macalester College in St. Paul. She has been writing
and lecturing extensively on the subject of contemporary art in Europe and the
United States. She is the author of The Figurative Sculpture of Magdalena
Abakanowicz: Bodies, Environments, and Myths. Berkeley: University of
California Press, 2004; and WARM: A Feminist Art Collective in Minnesota.
Minneapolis, MN: Weisman Art Museum and University of Minnesota Press, 2007.
JENNIE KLEIN is an assistant professor of Art History at
Ohio University. She is the editor of Letters from Linda M. Montano.
London: Routledge, 2005 and the co-curator, along with Rebecca McGrew, of "The
21st Century Odyssey Part II: The Performance Work of Barbara T.
Smith" (2005-2006). She is presently collaborating with Deidre Heddon on a
history of live art in the United Kingdom. |
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Ann Kibbey.
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