THE VFA PIONEER HISTORIES PROJECT
Bea Kreloff
September 11, 1925 – August 17, 2016
“This group hasn’t formed around a particular issue. It’s founded around general disgust.” – Bea Kreloff about the Women’s Action Coalition, 1992
Artist, painter, teacher, activist, radical lesbian feminist. Co-founder, with Edith Isaac Rose, Art Workshop International, Assisi, Italy. Worked in support of lesbian issues, reproductive rights, rights of older women, anti-war movement. Volunteer, Women’s Environment & Development Organization (WEDO), organizing conferences, meetings, demonstrations. Involved with Women’s Action Coalition (WAC), which started as a women artists’ coalition. Exhibited paintings and drawings nationally and internationally. Permanent collection, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.
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Photo. Artists and life partners Edith Isaac Rose (1929-2018) and Bea Kreloff (1925-2016) lived together in Westbeth for 35 years where they produced paintings, drawings, embroideries and artist books. They both taught art and founded Art Workshop International in Assisi, Italy.
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More About Bea:
- Bea Kreloff – North Fork Women
- Barbara Shoup: Bea Kreloff, Artemesia Gentileschi, and Hope
- Bea Kreloff, A Life in Art and Politics
- The Feminist Seder in the Time of #MeToo, by Abigail Pogrebin, March 12, 2018
- Oral History Interview with Bea Kreloff, 1996, Columbia Center for Oral History
- 2003 interview of Bea Kreloff and Edith Isaac Rose by Dolores Alexander for Smith College
- Cited in Barbara Love’s book, Feminists Who Changed America, 1963 – 1975, page 263