The Feminist Art Program
Suzanne Lacy, Car Renovations, 1972. Performance created under the Feminist Art Program at CalArts, assignment from Judy Chicago class, highway 126, from Newhall to the Pacific Ocean. Photo courtesy of Suzanne Lacy Studio.

Alexandra Grant’s Letter to A Young Woman artist as part of Gala Porras-Kim’s More Letters to a Young Woman Artist project

Alexandra Grant’s Letter to A Young Woman artist as part of Gala Porras-Kim’s More Letters to a Young Woman Artist project, currently on view at CalArts’ as part of the exhibition The Feminist Art Program (1970-1975): Cycles of Collectivity.

“If this letter has found its way into your hands or onto your screen, then I am lucky. This is what an artist dreams about, finding the perfect audience for her own voice. And you, reading this missive, are she.

Writing this to you, today, at 50 years old, I have spent over half my life as a professional artist. While I may not be a Young Woman Artist relative to you, I am still one today in relationship to the women who came before me and to myself. Once a Young Woman Art, always one. Louise Bourgeois, Joan Brown, Miriam Shapiro, or any of the women involved in the CalArts Feminist Art Project will always be Young Women Artists in their interiors and spirits in relationship to the artists who taught and inspired them.”  Alexandra Grant.

Download the letter here.
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