FAP—FL Meeting: Sept. 26,2006

Outreach and Resources Working Group Report

Presented By: Jillian Hernandez

Outreach

University Related

The following courses will be taught/ or are being taught at Universities/Colleges throughout the State. These courses will expose students to feminist art and/or survey art history from a feminist perspective. Mary Jo gathered this information through her solicitation of the Florida Consortium for Women’s Studies that kindly requested the information from its membership.

Florida International University: Women and Art (Fall 2006)

Carol Damian

I have discussed the possibility of partnering with Professor Damian to have her students work as interns in my Women on the Rise! outreach program for at-risk teenage girls. We will discuss further.

Women’s Studies Center: I have a strong relationship with FIU’s Women’s Studies Center and have organized collaborations for public lectures at MOCA that are part of its Women of Distinction Lecture Series. I will arrange a meeting in November with Suzanna Rose, Director of FIU’s Women’s Studies Center, to discuss collaborating on possible FAP-FL related programming. Please submit your ideas (possible speakers, interesting venues, etc.) to me at jillian.hernandez@gmail .com by mid-October so that I may present them to her.

University of Florida: Gender and Representation in 18th Century French Art

Melissa Hyde

UF will also be hosting a lecture by Professor Carol Armstrong (September 27, 2006) entitled, Nadar’s Balloon: Modernism Inside-Out”. Professor Armstrong is Professor of Art and Archeology, Doris Stevens Professor in Women’s Studies and Director of the Program in the Study of Women and Gender at Princeton University. Her works focuses on the representation of women, the female body, and femininity in 19th Century French painting.

Rollins College: Philosophy of Art (TBD: 2006-2007) This course will have a feminist art/aesthetics component.

L. Ryan Musgrave

Professor Musgrave will be editing a volume on Feminist Aesthetics due out in late ’07 or ’08 that will be part of a 5-volume set on Feminist Philosophy to be published by Kluwer.

FAP-FL Archives at Florida State University

Karen Bearor (FAP-FL Co-Coordinator) presented a two-part exhibition at the University titled, Origins, which celebrated the work of Judy Chicago. She reports that the exhibition has been well received in the community. The project included the work of Mary Beth Edelson in addition to a component in the library that featured archival photos of women art students from 1904-1954 at Florida State College for Women. A large papier-mache sculpture of a pig (symbolic of “Male Chauvinist Pigs”) was exhibited down a street in Tallahassee where the first Equal Rights Amendment Rally was held. The library component also included archival materials concerning the founding of the Women’s Studies Program at FSU and the speakers the department brought to the campus such as Faith Ringgold and Trin T. Minh-ha. Feminist journals (most now out of print) such as the Feminist Art Journal and Heresies where also on view.

In addition to the presentation of Origins, Karen created an archive to document FAP-FL activities to be part of Special Collections at FSU. This is a crucial step in insuring the posterity of the project and access to Florida scholars.

Community Related Outreach and Resources

Culture in the City: On August 16, 2006, I presented a public lecture titled, Feminist Images of Empowerment, which explored the strategies and feminist theory behind the Women on the Rise! program. This was the first FAP-FL public event and was co-sponsored by FAP-FL, Culture in the City, the Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA), North Miami (where I work as Curatorial Associate) and the Women’s Fund of Miami-Dade County.

An exhibition of work by Women on the Rise! girls will be on view at Miami International Airport in early November. It will also educate the public on the feminist artists featured by the program.

Women’s Fund of Miami-Dade County: The Women’s Fund is interested in working with FAP-FL. They are currently looking for monthly speakers through their partnership with Culture in the City. It is possible to propose more FAP-FL related public talks. The contact person is Sophie Brion (sophie@womensfundmiami.org).

The Women’s Fund is also interested in presenting a public feminist art project in Miami-Dade County. We are open to ideas.

Florida Consortium for Women’s Studies Conference

February 2007: Through Mary Jo’s outreach to the Florida Consortium for Women’s Studies it is now possible to present an FAP-FL panel at the Florida Consortium for Women’s Studies Conference. She is currently accepting e-mails of paper ideas and abstracts. (She would like to have abstracts in by November)