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Schedule
FEMINIST ART INTERIM SCHEDULE
WEEK 1 January 6-12
January 6, Monday:
1) Group meeting and formation of small CR (conscious raising) groups
Carole Fisher
a.m. 2) Instruction in CR
3) Discussion of workshop, expectations, etc.
& p.m. 4) Establish journal project
5) Questions and open discussion
6) Set up studio
evening 7) Art faculty dinner
January 7, Tuesday:
a.m. 1) CR groups—theme for week—Feelings Towards Mothers Groups meet Judy and Carole
p.m. 2) Art Workshop-Images of Mothers
evening 3) PUBLIC SESSION: Judy discusses work in her exhibit at St. Catherines art department gallery
January 8, Wednesday:
a.m. 1) CR sessions—Feelings Towards Fathers
2) Journal—write/discuss
3) Reading
p.m. 4) Art Workshop—Images of Fathers
January 9, Thursday:
a.m. 1) CR-Feelings Toward Church
p.m. 2) Art Workshop-Images of Self in Relation to Church
evening 3) PUBLIC SESSION: lecture/discussion, Feminist Art Education, Part I (Judy Chicago)
January 10, Friday:
a.m. 1) CR groups meet alone
2) Small group discussion of Mary McCarthy's Memories of a Catholic Girlhood
p.m. 3) Open time—secure supplies, reading, journal writing
January 11 & 12, Saturday & Sunday:
1) Group project using images made during week and writing in journal on subject matter of the week
White paper (butcher paper on rolls) to be wrapped around studio walls. Start by cutting out and collaging images made during week on theme of relation to Mother/Father/Church, grouping images by looking for commodity, then adding writing, more images, painting, drawing, collaging—using any materials until entire wall space is filled in both rooms
WEEK 2 January 13—19 THEME—SELF—IMAGES & IMAGES OF WOMEN (Carole Fisher & Arlene Raven)
January 13, Monday:
a.m. 1) Group meeting with Arlene Raven—look at mural and do critique
p.m. 2) Discuss meanings of images and how they relate to larger issues
January 14, Tuesday:
a.m. 1) CR groups—How I See Myself
p.m. 2) Art Workshops—Self-Images (Carole Fisher)
evening 3) PUBLIC SESSION: Artist and Women—Self-image Split, lecture (Arlene Raven)
January 15, Wednesday:
a.m. 1) CR groups meet and read journals aloud
p.m. 2) Group discussion of Anais Nin's First Diary in relation to student's journals and women's autobiographical writings in general
January 16, Thursday:
a.m. 1) CR groups—How I See Other Women
p.m. 2) Art Workshop—Self-images
evening 3) PUBLIC SESSION: Feminist Art Education, Part II—A Context Approach to the History of Art: Feminist Perspectives on Major Art Historical Themes
January 17, Friday:
a.m. 1) Images of Women (Arlene Raven) Group discussion with slides, closed session
January 18 & 19, Saturday and Sunday:
1) Individual project—Self-image and Images of Women, any media
WEEK 3 January 20—26 THEME—ON BEING ANGRY (Coordinated by Carole Fisher utilizing resources of area women)
January 20, Monday:
a.m. 1) Critique of weekend projects (Carole Fisher)
p.m.
2-4:00 2) Circle of the Witch-Feminist Theatre Workshop
evening
8:00 3) PUBLIC SESSION: Circle of the Witch Singers-feminist and political songs/discussion
January 21, Tuesday:
a.m. 1) Sisterhood is powerful-discussions in small groups
p.m.
3:00 2) Women Poets of the Twin Cities (Patricia Hampl and Phoebe Hanson) Meet with and discuss their work with students
January 22, Wednesday:
a.m. 1) CR-On Being Angry
p.m. 2) Open project-trying to bring feelings expressed in morning into images in afternoon, any media
January 23, Thursday:
a.m. 1) CR groups-How I Feel About Being Independent
p.m. 2) Open project-trying to deal with feelings expressed in morning, any media
evening 3) PUBLIC SESSION-Films by and for women including Twin Cities Women's Film Collective
January 24, Friday:
a.m. 1) Small group discussion-A Room of One's Own
p.m. 2) Group meeting-selected journal readings
evening 8:00 3) PUBLIC SESSION: Women Poets of the Twin Cities-Jenne Andrews, Jill Haldeman, Marisha Chamberlain, Bea Williams
January 25 & 26, Saturday & Sunday:
1-5:00 each day 1) PUBLIC SESSION: Weekend slide marathon, women only, area women to show slides, films and video tape
WEEK 4 January 27-30 THEME-SELF-DOCUMENTATION (Arlene Raven, Ruth Skin, Carole Fisher)
January 27, Monday:
a.m. 1) Self-documentation workshop, (two closed sessions, two sections), workshop and discussion about professional means for a representation of yourself and your art. Appropriate contacts with galleries and museums, means for documentation of your work, photographs, slides, resumes, etc. Slides or other documentation of your work must be brought to this session
p.m. 2) Summary of the Feminist Art Workshop at St. Catherine and plans for the future
evening 3) PUBLIC SESSION: Self-images of Women Artists from the Renaissance to the 20th Century, lecture/slide presentation by Ruth Iskin
January 28, Tuesday:
a.m. 1) Marathon slide showing and discussion of Women's Art History
evening 2) PUBLIC SESSION: Panel discussion, "Women in Art History Today" Members: Arlene Raven, Eileen Michels, Kathryn C. Johnson, Ruth Iskin
January 29, Wednesday:
a.m. & p.m. 1) CLOSED SESSIONS: All day critique of work, summary and discussion of workshop
January 30, Thursday:
a.m. 1) Set up work, journals, products of workshop
2) Group lunch
p.m. 1:00 3) Open reception-women in workshop to be hostesses, answer questions, etc.
READING LIST:
Required reading (will be discussed in order given)
Memories of a Catholic Girlhood, Mary McCarthy
First Diary, Anais Nin
Sisterhood is Powerful, Robin Morgan
A Room of One's Own, Virginia Wolf
Related reading (should be read before start of program)
Golden Notebook, Doris Lessing
Century of Struggle, Eleanor Flexner
5 Centuries of Women Artists, Eleanor Tufts
Art & Sexual Politics, Linda Nochlin, Thomas Hess
