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For the past three years I have been a Lecturer in the Women's Studies Program at Cornell University, co-teaching a course entitled Women Artists and Cultural Change. When I began researching the work of women artists I gave much thought to the question of female sensibility and now I'm exploring the nature of lesbian sensibility in the visual arts. As a lesbian sculptor I started by analyzing the imagery in my own work and came out with exciting discoveries. From graduate school to the present my sculpture has undergone many changes. The themes and images reflect my developing consciousness as a women/lesbian artist in a sexist/heterosexist society. The outline below illustrates the sequence of images in a sampling of my work.

Graduate School 1968-1971
National/international protest themes
 "Viet Nam Box"
 "Kent State Killings"
 "Tree Ecology/Black-top Blight"
Satirical themes on the male oppressor
 "Fuck You Railroad"
 "Footed Penis Train"
 "'Come' Covered Tooth Brush Reliquary"
Themes dealing with women's oppression
 "The Cannibal Apple Train"
 "The 'Snatch' Box"
 "Cunt Reliquary"
Themes of emerging female imagery
 "Landscape Boxes"
 "Doors to Furry Interiors"
 "Bleeding Landscape"

The Feminist Studio 1973-1975
Drawings by me 
 "Masturbation Landscape"
 "Shell and Wave"
 "Flowing Eggs"
Drawings and sculpture done collaboratively with Betsy Damon
 "Homage to Georgia O'keeffe"
 "Cunt Garden"
 Angry Red Egg series
 "Hanging Totem"
 "Ritual Boat"
Ritual done collaboratively with Betsy Damon
 "series of slides of a 'Rite of Passage' ritual using the collaboratively sculpted wooden images

Individual Development 1975 to the present
 "Pain/Anger Totem"
 "Autoerotic Bowl"
 "Self Portrait/The Goddess"
 Tree Spirit Mask series
 "Vulva Ring"
 "Omphale"