by: Ellen C. Caldwell
for JSTOR Daily
In 1972, artists Judy Chicago and Miriam Schapiro created Womanhouse, an experiential and experimental feminist art installation featuring installation, sculpture, textile, and performance art in a run-down Hollywood home.
This spring, a new installment, called Women House, showcases a new generation of feminist artists at the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington, D.C.
Although Women House will only showcase two of the twenty-three original artists featured in the original (the creators Chicago and Schapiro), it’s clear that Womanhouse laid the foundation for current feminist art practice and theory. Beginning in 1971, Chicago and Schapiro began working towards the creation of Womanhouse.This endeavor grew out of the newfound Feminist Art Program at California Institute of the Arts, with twenty-one women studying under their tutelage…