018) "Sisters Are Doin' it for Themselves: Feminist Friendships and the American Feminist Art Movement"
 

This illustrated talk will focus on US feminist friendships, collaborations, and networks in the visual arts over the past half century. Female friendships are at the very heart of The American Feminist Art Movement and a history of the 50 years of that movement is a history of female friendship. The female friendships of that movement take many forms, ranging from the classic duo to collaborative group efforts of a few members to institutional collaborations, all intended to remedy the situation caused by the patriarchal structure of the visual arts world that denied inclusion and/or recognition to women-identified and Black, brown, and Indigenous artists, art historians, curators, and policy makers in the structure of art disciplines. We will introduce the visual arts partnerships and collaboratives that actively and effectively transformed contemporary American Art.