The following info is from the MCAD website, and this event is part of their Women's Art Institute. The Women's Art Institute "offers educational opportunities to assist individuals in attaining philosophical, aesthetic and historical knowledge to help them define their goals as women artists."
Monday, March 31, 7pm
Minneapolis College of Art & Design
Auditorium 150
This event is free and open to the public. Diane Mullin, art historian and curator at the Frederick R. Weisman Art Museum at the University of Minnesota, will speak about the year's current recognition of women artists in the exhibition "WHACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution" at MOCA in Los Angeles; "The International Feminist Art Exhibition" at the Brooklyn Museum in New York; and "WARM: 12 Artists of the Women's Art Registry of Minnesota," a recent exhibition at the Weisman Museum curated by Dr. Johanna Inglott. Dr. Mullin will also spotlight several artists whose work is contributing to the recognition of the questions being asked by women artists. Dr. Mullin earned her PhD in art history from Washington University in St. Louis. Her curatorial and scholarly work focuses on postwar and contemporary art. A faculty member at MCAD from 1998 to 2004, she also served as director of MCAD Gallery from 2002-04.
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