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VFA PIONEER HISTORIES PROJECT: MARY BETH EDELSONadmin2021-06-25T17:19:04-04:00

THE VFA PIONEER HISTORIES PROJECT

Mary Beth Edelson

February 6, 1933 – April 20, 2021

Artist, lecturer and author who was active in the civil rights, peace and eco-feminist movements. Organized the first Conference for Women in the Visual Arts at the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., 1972. Organized a seven-week seminar on feminism for the Smithsonian, 1973. Founder of the Heresies Magazine Collective. Spearheaded a group that researched Title IX as a tool for challenging museums to provide equal representation for women in museums, 1996. 

More About Mary Beth:

  • Mary Beth’s obituary
  • !Women Art Revolution, Created by artist and filmmaker Lynn Hershman Leeson Stanford’s Art and Architecture Library, the Department of Special Collections, and the Stanford Media Preservation Lab.
  • Art This Week 162-In Conversation with Mary Beth Edelson, Part 1-January 21, 2013
  • Art This Week 163-In Conversation with Mary Beth Edelson, Part 2-January 29, 2013
  • Feminist Archives of The Brooklyn Museum, The Art of Mary Beth Edelson
  • Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution
    • Oral history interview with Mary Beth Edelson, 2009 February 1-16.
    • Mary Beth Edelson response to “What is Feminist Art?”, between 1976-1977.
  • The HERETICS, a film that focuses on The Heresies Collective
  • Wikipedia
  • Cited in Barbara Love’s book, Feminists Who Changed America, page 130

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