The Education of Women as Artists: Project Womanhouse

Miriam Schapiro Life and Career Art Prior to Womanhouse - Big Ox/Central Core Imagery Womanhouse Life after Womanhouse Fig 1, Miriam Schapiro, 1980

Fig 2, Miriam Schapiro (American, b. 1923). Big Ox No 2, Acrylic on canvas. Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, Gift of Harry Kahn. © Miriam Schapiro

College Art Association of America Description of Art Journal Point of View Influence Fig 3, Art Journal, Spring 1973.

Thesis Judy Chicago and Miriam Schapiro were provided with context for personal and meaningful teaching experiment, they took the experience of transforming young women art students into young women artist by using a circular teaching method and provided young women art students the opportunity to prove themselves as serious artists and express their feminism through their success in art.

Methods of Teaching: Group Operations Circular Learning Pattern Reverse of traditional laws “In Classical Women’s Liberation technique, the personal becomes the political”(268)

History of Womanhouse: Conception “What would happen, we asked, if we created a home in which we pleased no one but ourselves? … what if each woman were to develop her own dreams and fantasies in one room of the home? The idea seemed like a good one”

Fig 4, Kitchen by Susan Frazier, Vicky Hadgett and Robin Weltsch, 1972

Fig 5, Menunstration Bathroom by Judy Chicago, 1972

Fig 6, Fright Bathroom by Robin Schiff, 1972

Conclusion Learned  Teacher  Student Response from the project “They cried when they saw the cosmetic performance piece. They gasped in the kitchen. They shook their heads wisely when they looked at the bridal piece. The shoe closet was familiar, the menstruation bathroom belonged to them, the stockings were theirs…” (270)

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