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Dear Ulrike,
It was lovely to meet you and to discuss your interest in the Feminist Art Program
and its impact on myself, other women artists, and the art world. I was a participant
of the Feminist Art Program in its first year at CalArts and worked on Womanhouse
and the experience left a deep impression on my life.
I knew from an early age that I was an artist, but
it was always a question to me how that might manifest itself in my life. I already
had a strong independent sense of myself and an awareness of contemporary art when
I heard Judy Chicago speak about her experiment with the Feminist Art Program at
California State University, Fresno. I was familiar with some of the aspects of being
a women artist, but she addressed issues that I had not encountered yet but I had
an inkling were part of my immediate future. I was interested in what she had to
say and wrote Judy. I was invited to come and visit the women of the program. I had
already been accepted to tile undergraduate program at CalArts and had already completed
three years of undergraduate school.
Visiting the program in Fresno was revelatory. I was confronted
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Creative blossoming, periods
of dormancy, regeneration, and renewal ñ but always constant growth.
Sincerest regards,
Robin Mitchell |
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Robin Mitchell received
her MFA (1974) and BFA (1972) in Art from California Institute of the Arts. She was
awarded the City of Los Angeles - Individual Artists Grant for 1997-1998, the Anonymous
Was A Woman Award (1986), and a National Endowment for the Arts Visual Artist Grant
for Painting (1987). Her art work including paintings, works on paper, and sculpture,
has been exhibited extensively. She has been a teacher of Studio Art and Contemporary
Art courses at the University of Southern California, the University of California
at Irvine and Santa Barbara, Art Center College among other art institutions. |
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