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.
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.
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