You should check out the trailer that Amy Stein recently posted on her blog. The documentary is a moving depiction of women artists and their decline in the art world post graduate school (here).

On another note, last Friday I attended the Wack! Art and the Feminist Revolution exhibit at the Vancouver Art gallery. The exhibit focuses on feminist art created between 1965 and 1980. At times I felt a bit like I was attending a 70s consciousness raising group, but all in all I was pretty excited to see the original scroll that  Carolee Schneemann pulled out of her vagina, sit on the floor and watch Yoko Ono’s “Cut Piece” and be in the same room as the artist celebrity Orlan. The exhibit is on at the VAG till January 11, 2009.

And here are some amazing audio interviews with WACK artists on the specific pieces they have hung in the show (go here and click on the subsection “highlights”).

An interview with Jeff Mermelstein broadcast on Media Matters in 2003. It is quite an impressive interview, that shows how he works on the streets of NY.

Note: Ignore the writing, just push play and it should work.

I was a teenager living in small town Oregon, when Sally Mann’s, Immediate Family, was released. I happened to be thumbing through my grandmother’s Time magazine and came across the famous photograph of her children, Jessie, Emmett, and Virginia waist high and shirtless. Something about that image spoke to my teenage self so incredibly loud, I ended up pestering my parents for months to buy me that book. I am still unsure what about that exact image possessed me so. But, the possession was so strong and iconic, that it now feels like a memory to me.

And Sally Mann on the collodion process: