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3 unusual facts about Miriam Schapiro


Michelle Grabner

They might therefore be seen as a Pop rereading of the abstractionists' grid, in the tradition of the Dutch artist Daan van Golden's work of the '60s, or as continuing the recovery and reevaluation, in the feminist-inspired Pattern & Decoration art of the '70s, of the "secret language" and "covert imagery" (as Miriam Schapiro and Melissa Meyer put it in 1978) of women's domestic productivity.

Miriam Schapiro

Subsequently, she was able to establish the Feminist Art Program at the California Institute of the Arts with Judy Chicago.

New York Feminist Art Institute

The founding members and the initial board of directors were Nancy Azara, Miriam Schapiro, Selena Whitefeather, Lucille Lessane, Irene Peslikis and Carol Stronghilos.



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