What is the Feminist Art Project?

The Feminist Art Project in Florida is one of the regional groups around the US working to develop awareness of feminists’ contributions to art and to the Feminist Art Movement, which began in the 1970s and is very much alive today. The broad purpose of the FAP across the country is to bring public attention to feminists’ impact on contemporary art practice, on art criticism and on art history, and to encourage attention to feminist art in women’s studies programs, and not only in cross-listed courses held in art history departments, and in studio art programs, but in multi-disciplinary approaches feminists are taking in non-art related areas.

This year, 2006, marked the beginning of efforts by the Feminist Art Project across the US to commemorate historic anniversaries in the American Women’s Art Movement of the 1970s, and to publicize any and all programs related to the mission of the Feminist Art Project. A listing of these anniversaries can be found on the main FAP national website http://feministartproject.rutgers.edu/

An important aspect of the FAP nationwide is to gather information on courses, programs and projects that are already scheduled to occur in the near future, have already occurred, or are planned for the future. Since FAP does not have a firm ending point, projects and programs, including courses that may be offered next year, or any year over the next 5 years, would be appropriate to report. This information about courses, programs and projects that are supportive of the FAP purpose will be archived at a special FAP archive which has been set up at the Rutgers University Library, the Margery Somers Foster Center, and available for general information and research purposes starting immediately. A calendar of events occurring in the near future and the recent past is already up on the main FAP website at http://feministartproject.rutgers.edu/