THE VFA PIONEER HISTORIES PROJECT

Joan Arbeiter

May 8, 1937 – March 9, 2024

“Women’s history is fragile.  It needs to be preserved and published.”

Artist, Author, Educator. Involved with the feminist art world of New York and New Jersey since the 1970s. Worked with the College Art Association (CAA), the Women’s Caucus for Art (WCA), The New York Feminist Art Institute (NYFAI) and the Ceres Gallery since the early 1980s and has been a member of ArtTable since 2003. Part of the inaugural exhibit of Ceres Gallery, a feminist New York City based gallery that grew out of the New York Feminist Art Institute.

Photo 1. Joan Arbeiter