Rutgers University Libraries presents
Monday, November 23rd, 2009Rutgers University Libraries presents
Judith K. Brodsky, Professor Emerita
Women Working from Within for Change: The Women’s Caucus for Art and the
College Art Association
Wednesday, December 2, 2009 at 4:00 p.m.
Remigio U. Pane Room, First Floor, Archibald S. Alexander Library.
169 College Avenue
New Brunswick, NJ 08901
Judith K. Brodsky is Distinguished Professor Emerita in the Department
of Visual Arts at Rutgers, and the Founding Director of the Rutgers
Center for Innovative Print and Paper, which was renamed the Brodsky
Center in her honor in September 2006. Over the past thirty years,
Brodsky has held numerous leadership positions in the art world; most
notably as past national president of ArtTable, the College Art
Association, and the Women’s Caucus for Art (WCA). The Women’s Caucus
for Art (WCA) was established in 1972 as part of the College Art
Association to promote equity for women artists and art professionals.
Today it remains one of the largest and most influential organizations
for women artists, with twenty-seven chapters nationwide. As the first
working artist to lead the organization, Brodsky expanded political
activism and membership at the WCA. Judith Brodsky and other women
artists continue to work both within and outside of the organization to
advance equality for women in the arts at all levels.
Judith Brodsky’s lecture is being held in conjunction with the major
exhibition, Bridging Generations: Women Artists and Organizations from
the Rutgers Collections. This exhibition focuses on the critical and
much-debated women’s art of the 1970s. It draws on Rutgers’ rich
archival collections documenting women artists, including the papers of
Faith Ringgold, Ora Lerman, and Judith Brodsky herself, as well as
organizational records such as those of the Women’s Caucus for Art and
several of its local chapters. The program will be followed by a
reception in the Clifford P. Case II Room at Special Collections and
University Archives and a tour of the exhibition by curator Fernanda H.
Perrone.
The exhibition will be on display in Gallery ’50 and the Special
Collections and University Archives Gallery on the first floor and lower
level of the Archibald S. Alexander Library at 169 College Avenue in New
Brunswick until January 30, 2010. The accompanying public programs were
made possible by a grant from the New Jersey Council for the Humanities,
a state partner of the National Endowment for the Humanities. Any views,
finding, conclusions or recommendations in these programs do not
necessarily represent those of the National Endowment for the Humanities
or the New Jersey Council for the Humanities. For more information or
assistance with parking, please contact Fernanda Perrone at
hperrone@rci.rutgers.edu <mailto:hperrone@rci.rutgers.edu> or (732) 932
7006 x363.
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Fernanda Helen Perrone, D. Phil.
Archivist and Head, Exhibitions Program
Curator, William Elliot Griffis Collection
Special Collections and University Archives
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