Join us for a virtually moderated conversation between Lucy Lippard and Tomie Arai, sharing their thoughts on the legacy and future of feminist art. Erina Duganne, Professor of Art History at Texas State University and Marissa Vigneault, Associate Professor of Art History at Utah State University, will moderate.
In 1983, the National Women’s Studies Association Conference celebrated its 5th anniversary on the campus of The Ohio State University. Multiple cultural events were coordinated in conjunction with the conference. One of these, the exhibition All’s Fair: Love and War in New Feminist Art, was guest curated by noted feminist art critic, curator and scholar Lucy Lippard. Twenty feminist artists (including two artist collaborations) were put together in one exhibition at the Hoyt Sherman Gallery in Sullivant Hall. Amongst those was Tomie Arai, a public artist who continues to create socially conscious art today.
This hybrid program is free and open to the public. Lucy and Tomie’s conversation will be held over Zoom. Participants can join remotely or gather to view the program and enjoy refreshments in Thompson Library, Room 150. After the talk, there will be a gallery walkthrough with Abject Object curator Courtney Hunt.
2:30-3:00 p.m. In-person event starts with refreshments available in Thompson 150
3:00-4:00 p.m. Virtual conversation via Zoom with Lucy Lippard and Tomie Arai, moderated by Erina Duganne and Marissa Vigneault.
4:00-4:30 p.m. In-person guided Tour of Abject Object by Courtney Hunt, live streamed via Zoom.
This event is co-sponsored by Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Department of Art and Department of History of Art.
About the speakers and moderators:
Lucy Lippard is a feminist art critic, curator and scholar based in New Mexico. Lucy’s contributions to the art world are vast and include the books From the Center: Feminist Essays on Women’s Art (1976), Eva Hesse (1976), Mixed Blessings: New Art in a Multicultural America (1990), Pueblo Chico: Land and Lives in Gelisteo Since 1814 (2020) and most recently most recently Stuff: Instead of a Memoir (2023) among many others.
Lucy’s myriad accomplishments also include dedicated activism. She is one of the founders of the non-profit Printed Matter, an organization dedicated to artist created publications, as well as the feminist collective Heresies that published the journal Heresies: A Feminist Journal on Art and Politics from 1977-1982. Other organizations Lucy was involved in co-founding include Ad Hoc Women Artists, Alliance for Cultural Democracy, Artists Call Against U.S. Intervention in Central America, Women’s Action Coalition, and the Women’s Art Registry.
Lucy has received many accolades and awards, including honorary doctorates from Maine College of Art, the Massachusetts College of Art and others. Awards Lucy has received include a Guggenheim Fellowship, two National Endowment for the Arts grants in criticism, and the Bard College Center for Curatorial Studies Award for Excellence, among many others.
Tomie Arai is a public artist who lives and works in NYC. She has designed both temporary and permanent public works of art for Creative Time, the US General Services Administration Art in Architecture Program, the NYC PerCent for Art Program, the Cambridge Arts Council, the MTA Arts for Transit Program, the New York City Board of Education and the San Francisco Arts Commission.
Tomie’s work has been exhibited nationally and is in the collections of the Library of Congress, the Bronx Museum of the Arts, the Japanese American National Museum, the Williams College Museum of Art, National Gallery of Art and the Whitney Museum of American Art. She has been a recipient of two New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowships in Printmaking for 1991 and 1994; a 1995 Joan Mitchell Visual Arts Grant, a 1994 National Endowment for the Arts Visual Arts Fellowship for Works on Paper and three MidAtlantic Arts Foundation Visual Artists Residency Grants. In 1997, she was one of ten women nationwide to receive an Anonymous was a Woman Grant for achievement in the visual arts. In the year 2000, Tomie Arai was one of 50 artists nationwide to participate in the Artists & Communities: America Creates for the Millennium Project, sponsored by the MidAtlantic Arts Foundation and the NEA. Tomie received a National Lifetime Achievement Award from the Women's Caucus for Art in 2016.
In 2015, she co-founded the cultural collective, The Chinatown Art Brigade with artists Betty Yu and ManSee Kong. She is currently an Artist-in-Residence with CAAAV (Committee Against Anti-Asian Violence) a grassroots organization that mobilizes working class Chinese and Bengali tenants to fight for housing rights.
Erina Duganne is Professor of Art History at Texas State University, where she teaches courses ranging from the history of photography to Latinx art history. Her research and writing interests address three interrelated areas: artist activism and solidarity practices; documentary photography and its histories; and race and its representation.
Dr. Marissa Vigneault is Associate Professor of Art History in the Caine College of the Arts at Utah State University. Her widely published research examines the ongoing influence of feminist politics on artistic production, and the role of technology, from the introduction of personal video cameras in the 1960s to contemporary social media apps, in shaping expectations of gender and sexuality via visual representation. From 2019-2020, Dr. Vigneault was an Andrew W. Mellon Senior Fellow in the Department of Modern and Contemporary Art at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, where she researched and wrote on the pioneering feminist artist Hannah Wilke (1940-1993).
