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词条 Irene Peslikis
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  1. Life and career

  2. Teaching

  3. Writing on feminism and art

  4. References

  5. External links

Irene Peslikis (October 7, 1943 - November 28, 2002) was an American feminist artist, activist, and educator. She was one of the early founders and organizers in the women's art movement, especially on the east coast.[1]

Life and career

Irene Peslikis spent her life in New York City. She was born into a Greek working-class family in Queens.[2]{{rp|46}} She began her studies in art at the Pratt Institute after completing high school in 1962, before breaking away in 1963 to help found The New York Studio School of Drawing, Painting and Sculpture.[1] She graduated from Queens College in New York in 1973 and earned an MFA from the City College of New York in 1983.[3]

Peslikis organized the first show of Second Wave women artists.[1] She was a founder of the New York Feminist Art Institute, which ran a full-time radical feminist art education program for women for years.[4] With another feminist artist, Patricia Manairdi, Marjorie Kramer and Lucia Vernarelli, Peslikis founded the journal Women & Art, which helped to make the artist Alice Neel famous.[1][3]

She was a founder of the NoHo Gallery in Manhattan, one of the first cooperative feminist art galleries. Her political cartoons, widely circulated in the early Women's Liberation Movement years & published in feminist journals and in collections of the feminist movement like [https://books.google.com/books/about/Dear_Sisters_Dispatches_From_The_Women_s.html?id=2uMwEGfAMSQC Dear Sisters: Dispatches from the Women’s Liberation Movement]. Peslikis was one of the earliest members of Redstockings, the leading Feminist women’s theoretical and consciousness- raising group in New York City as well as a member of the earlier group New York Radical Women and was a key organizer and participant of the Redstocking abortion speak-out at Washington Square Methodist Church in 1969.[5] She was also active in the Greek community.

Teaching

Peslikis taught courses on painting, drawing, visual arts orientation, women and art studio workshop, and contemporary perspectives on art at a number of post-secondary institutions including the City College of New York, the College of Staten Island, the College of New Rochelle and Ramapo College.[3]

Writing on feminism and art

Peslikis wrote "Resistances to Consciousness" (printed in Notes from the Second Year), an important paper for understanding consciousness raising and women's resistance to it.[6][2]{{rp|200}} She also contributed to the Archives of American Art "Art World in Turmoil" oral history project with Patricia Mainardi.[7] She published pieces on art and art history and criticism in Rozinanta, Demokratia and Eleftheri-Patrida.[1]

References

1. ^{{cite web|author=Rosalyn Baxandall |url=http://www.vfa.us/IrenePeslikis.htm |title=IRENE PESLIKIS. TOO SOON -- A LOSS FOR FEMINISM AND ART |accessdate=2014-03-21}}
2. ^ {{cite book|last=Rosen|first=Ruth|title=The World Split Open: How the Modern Women's Movement Changed America|date=2000|publisher=Viking|location=New York, NY}}
3. ^{{cite web|title="Historical Note"|url=http://library.duke.edu/rubenstein/findingaids/peslikisirene/|work=Guide to the Irene Peslikis Papers, 1957-2002 and undated|accessdate=26 March 2014|author=Jodi Berkowitz|author2=Aisha Peay|year=2008}}
4. ^{{cite web|last=NYFAI|title=Bios of Founders|url=http://www.nyfai.org/boardofdirectors.html|work=Board of Directors|accessdate=26 March 2014}}
5. ^{{cite book|last=Echols|first=Alice|title=Daring to Be Bad: Radical Feminism in America, 1967-1975|date=1989|publisher=University of Minnesota Press|location=Minneapolis, MN|pages=140-142}}
6. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.redstockings.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=98 |title=June 1969: A Blast of Redstockings Feminism |publisher=Redstockings.org |accessdate=2014-03-21}}
7. ^{{cite web|author=Archives of American Art |url=http://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/interviews/oral-history-interview-patricia-mainardi-and-irene-peslikis-12140 |title=Oral history interview with Patricia Mainardi and Irene Peslikis, 1972 |publisher=Smithsonian Institution |accessdate=2014-03-21}}

External links

  • The New York Feminist Art Institute
  • Irene Peslikis: Too Soon-- A Loss for Feminism and Art
  • Guide to the Irene Peslikis Papers
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9 : 1943 births|20th-century artists|American feminists|Artists from New York City|Feminist artists|Queens College, City University of New York alumni|2002 deaths|American people of Greek descent|City College of New York faculty

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