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Pattern & Decoration and Femmage: Then and Now

The National Academy is pleased to present “Pattern & Decoration and Femmage: Then and Now” a panel featuring artists Melissa Meyer, Robert Kushner and Gaby Collins-Fernandez, in a conversation moderated by curator, writer and Director of the National Academy, Maura Reilly. Organized in conjunction with the exhibition Miriam Schapiro, A Visionary, currently on view at the National Academy Museum, this program will explore the origins of the 1978 Heresies article, “Waste Not, Want Not: An Inquiry Into What Women Saved and Assembled–Femmage” written by Miriam Schapiro and Melissa Meyer, and its relationship to the Pattern and Decoration movement of the 1970s, as well as contemporary ideas of collage and gender.

The Femmage collaboration began with the questions of why so many women made collages, and what parts of the collage process related to women’s lives and activities. It ultimately revealed the need to rewrite the history of collage to include women’s, anonymous, and folk artists’ cut-and-paste work predating that of Picasso and Braque. The panel will address this history, as well as that of the Pattern and Decoration movement’s relationship to collage, craft, and gender, and whether these concerns remain relevant today.











When: Wed., Apr. 20, 2016 at 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm
Where: National Academy School & Museum
5 E. 89th St.
212-369-4880
Price: Free, RSVP requested
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The National Academy is pleased to present “Pattern & Decoration and Femmage: Then and Now” a panel featuring artists Melissa Meyer, Robert Kushner and Gaby Collins-Fernandez, in a conversation moderated by curator, writer and Director of the National Academy, Maura Reilly. Organized in conjunction with the exhibition Miriam Schapiro, A Visionary, currently on view at the National Academy Museum, this program will explore the origins of the 1978 Heresies article, “Waste Not, Want Not: An Inquiry Into What Women Saved and Assembled–Femmage” written by Miriam Schapiro and Melissa Meyer, and its relationship to the Pattern and Decoration movement of the 1970s, as well as contemporary ideas of collage and gender.

The Femmage collaboration began with the questions of why so many women made collages, and what parts of the collage process related to women’s lives and activities. It ultimately revealed the need to rewrite the history of collage to include women’s, anonymous, and folk artists’ cut-and-paste work predating that of Picasso and Braque. The panel will address this history, as well as that of the Pattern and Decoration movement’s relationship to collage, craft, and gender, and whether these concerns remain relevant today.

Buy tickets/get more info now