Welcome to The Feminist Art Project Florida (TFAP-FL) Wiki

The purpose of this wiki is to enhance communication between and among TFAP-FL colleagues and to ease our processes of working together.

Click here to see TFAP-FL announcements and invitations: EventNews

Click here to see announcements of, and reviews/articles/reactions to, shows of art by women in Florida: WomenArt

Click here to see articles/commentary/events inside or outside Florida, but particularly relevant to TFAP's overall purpose: OfSpecialInterest

The Feminist Art Project in Florida is one of several regional organizations that began to form in mid-2006 in order to develop awareness of feminists' contributions to art and to the Feminist Art Movement. The broad purpose of TFAP, both in Florida and elsewhere, is to bring public attention to feminism's impact on contemporary art practice, on art criticism and on art history, and to encourage attention to feminist art and feminist analyses of cultural production in university curricula. We operate on a "rhizomic" arrangement, namely, people become TFAP-FL colleagues by being recommended by someone who is already involved. People are suggested because they have a professional involvement with, or significant interest in, promoting feminist perspectives in cultural production, and in teaching about feminism and art. To see the overview of the national TFAP objectives, please go to: http://feministartproject.rutgers.edu/

The coordinator of TFAP-FL is:

Karen Bearor, Ph. D. Associate Professor, Art History Department, Florida State University. kbearor at fsu dot edu.

TFAP-FL is a member of the Florida Consortium for Women's Studies (FCWS).

For information about FCWS go to: http://www.outreach.usf.edu/conted/conferences/flconsortium/index.htm

A TFAP-FL Panel was presented at the 2007 FCWS Conference. To see abstracts of the panel papers, go to: TFAP-FL 2007 Consortium Conference Paper Abstracts

TFAP-FL Working Groups

TFAP-FL currently has 6 working groups. Following are the descriptions of these groups.

Resources

This group works on identifying existing exhibitions, classes and public programs that are addressing feminism and art in some fashion. It also develops or encourages the development of new courses and public programs. This group and the Outreach group are oriented to education systems and institutions, including universities, community colleges and high schools. Go to ResourcesGroup.

Outreach

This group works closely with the Resources group, but its focus is on students at all levels of Florida's education system, and on young people of the "X" and "Y" generations. The group seeks to improve the understanding of these students and young people of the history and current reality of the feminist art movement; and encourages the involvement of art and art history students particularly to become involved in TFAP-FL (as interns, organizing their own campus projects, in high schools, etc.)This group seeks also to address/redefine/deal with the term "feminist" and the perception among this population that the term seems to foster gender boundaries. Go to OutreachGroup.

Networking

The focus of this group is on Florida's women artists, seeking to enhance communications between them, especially regarding their involvement in their work with feminist issues and themes. The group also advocates for Florida women artists with museums, not for profit spaces and commercial galleries to encourage them to show more art by women artists. A particular focus of the group is to promote Florida women artists of color. Encouraging the commissioning of new feminist art, advocating for the "sending out" of work by outstanding Florida feminist artists and promoting feminist art for public places. Go to NetworkingGroup.

Publicity/PR

This group develops TFAP-FL's visual identity through the design of a multiplicity of materials for public distribution and web-based communications, and creates recommendations for marketing TFAP-FL. Go to PublicityGroup

Speakers Bureau

This group develops lists of excellent speakers on a variety of topics related to the broad goals of TFAP_FL. Go to SpeakersGroup.

Exhibitions

This group seeks to bring important feminist art exhibitions into Florida museums. Go to ExhibitionsGroup.

Reports from TFAP-FL Meetings

TFAP-FL has periodic face-to-face general meetings. To date, two have occurred. The first organizing meeting was on June 8th, 2006 at the Bernice Steinbaum Gallery. Go to FirstMeeting to see the report.

The second meeting was on September 26th, 2006 at the home of artist and collector of women's art, Francie Bishop Good, in Ft. Lauderdale. Go to SecondMeeting to see the report.

The third TFAP-FL meeting was held at the University of Florida, Gainesville. See AprilMeeting for the minutes.