THE VFA PIONEER HISTORIES PROJECT

Miriam Schapiro

November 15, 1923 – June 20, 2015

“I was trained to be an artist by men, but I learned how to express myself from women.”

Artist, educator, and collector. Embraced feminism in the early 1970s and made it the foundation of her work and career.  A founding member of Heresies Collective, New York Feminist Art Institute, and brought the Feminist Art Program to the California Institute of the Arts with Judy Chicago. Helped found the Pattern and Decoration movement.