Miriam Schapiro
We really didn't have any literature telling us it was a good thing to be a woman artist. When I was trained, there were no precedents, and that was something to get really angry about.
Men think that sentiment is not valid; women think that sentiment is important.
Victor Papenack, who was teaching design, had his students making radios for a penny each that could be shipped to Third World people.
Women have always collected things and saved and recycled them because leftovers yielded nourishment in new forms. The decorative functional objects women made often spoke in a secret language, bore a covert imagery. When we read these images in needlework, in paintings, in quilts, rugs and scrapbooks, we sometimes find a cry for help, sometimes an allusion to a secret political alignment, sometimes a moving symbol about the relationships between men and women.Collection: Quilts
I question the negative connotations of fabric, of ribbon, of lace. I turn these symbols of our imprisonment around.Collection: Art
When I look back on the years of excessive self-doubt, I wonder how I was able to make my paintings. In part, I managed to paint because I had a desire, as strong as the desire for food and sex, to push through, to make an image that signified.Collection: Art
If you were to survey celebrated women, with every step toward real success there came a baby.Collection: Baby