What’s Inside
The winter/spring 2014 issue of Women in the Arts features:
- An exhibition, “Workt by Hand”: Hidden Labor and Historical Quilts, revealing rarely seen 18th- to 20th-century quilts through contemporary feminist theory
- Work by Judy Chicago that paralleled and influenced the U.S. feminist movement of the 1970s
- The archives of Anita Steckel, on view in the Library and Research Center
- A showcase of recent programs by national and international committees
Broad Strokes Blog
Anita Steckel: Fighting Censorship and Double Standards
According to materials from the archive of artist Anita Steckel, before she revealed her solo exhibition The Sexual Politics of Feminist Art at Rockville Community College in 1973, a female faculty member cautioned her. The woman said that if she wished to receive a teaching job at the college, she should leave any erotic artwork out of the show.