#miraschor

Mira Schor, Modest Painting, 2000

Bright lips and glasses. Mira Schor and me on top at the Remembering Womanhouse event at The National Academy, and the bottom is a slide of study for what became her Red Moon Room at Womanhouse at CalArts in 1973. (Look at that packed house last night) Listening to the stories Womanhouse last night from Mira and Faith Wilding- the first feminist art program, separatist, the beginning of a feminist pedagogy, the internal difficulties as well as the external ones, renovating a house for one! I got it I to my head that I wanted to do remix remake of Womanhouse a few years ago with #nowaveperformancetaskforce but it never happened. Now I want to do it again. The world has changed so much in so many ways, but in so many ways it hasn't...would love to do a intergenrational intersectional version....So much love and gratitude for the women who came before me- like my tote bag says, "You are nothing without feminist art." #miraschor #feministart #womanhouse #calarts #menstrualblood #art @nationalacademymuseum

Womanhouse is a very big influence on my work, made the year after I was born, and I am so grateful to the women artists who paved the way for so many. I have always wanted to recreate it- with the same themes, new artists, maybe someone can give me a house in Buffalo for summer 2017 or 2018? Unfortunately, many of the issues dealt with in Womanhouse are still with us- our food supply, childcare, patriarchy, menstrual equity, nurture care, unhealthy beauty standards, shame, slut shaming, rape culture. Meet me at theNational Academy to see Mira Schor's work and celebrate Womanhouse on Wednesday at 6 pm