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
- The HERETICS, a film that focuses on The Heresies Collective
- Wikipedia
- Cited in Barbara Love’s book, Feminists Who Changed America, page 130