FIVE NATIONAL ART EXPERTS TO LECTURE AT MILLS COLLEGE ON WOMEN ARTISTS AND THE FEMINIST ART MOVEMENT 

Free Public Events Precede Appearance by Gloria Steinem in March

Oakland, CA - Five nationally respected artists and writers will offer guest lectures at Mills College this spring as part of Professor Moira Roth’s art history seminar on “Contemporary U.S. Women Artists and the Feminist Art Movement.”

Free and open to the public, the lectures highlighting feminism and art precede an appearance at Mills on March 15 by Gloria Steinem. The following five guest lectures will take place from 6:45–7:45 pm in the Danforth Lecture Hall at Mills College, 5000 MacArthur Blvd., Oakland, CA 94613:

January 30: Laura Richard Janku will discuss "The Silence of Synapse: Productive Pauses in the Art of Sutapa Biswas and Writing" 
Janku is editor-in-chief of Artweek. A freelance writer and curator, she is a correspondent for Artinfo.com and has contributed to catalogues and magazines such as Art on Paper, artext, ARTnews, artUS, artzar.com, and Contemporary.

February 6: Whitney Chadwick, “Rethinking Issues of Gender and Transnationalism in an Age of Anxiety”
Chadwick is the author of Amazons in the Drawing Room: The Art of Romaine Brooks (2002), Women, Art and Society (1990), Women Artists and the Surrealist Movement (1983) and Framed (1998), an art historical crime novel. She is also editor/co-editor of The Modern Woman Revisited: Paris Between the Wars (2003), Mirror Images: Women, Surrealism and Self-Representation (1995), and Significant Others: Creativity and Intimate Partner (1993).

February 20: Lenore Chinn, “Lenore Chinn, Life and Work: From Cezanne to China”
Chinn’s portraiture explores the super-realistic depiction of a wide spectrum of people of color, lesbians, and same sex couples. Her inclusion in Harmony Hammond's Lesbian Art in America: A Contemporary History, the first study of American lesbian visual artists, expanded her national visibility. Her portraits documenting the historical evolution of San Francisco's queer community challenge social conventions that currently constitute the racialized order. She is a founding member of Lesbians in the Visual Arts and Queer Cultural Center and is affiliated with the Asian American Women Artists Association.

February 27: Faith Wilding, “subRosa: Rebooting Feminist Art”
Wilding, a multidisciplinary artist, writer, and educator, is chair and associate professor of performance at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She was a co-founder of the feminist art movement in Southern California, chronicled in her book By Our Own Hands (1976), and has exhibited worldwide. Her work addresses the recombinant and distributed bio-tech body in media including 2-D, video, digital media, installations, and performances. Wilding co-founded and collaborates with subRosa, a reproducible cyberfeminist cell of cultural researchers producing artworks, performances, workshops, contestational campaigns, publications, media interventions, and public forums.

The guest lectures are sponsored by the Mills College Women’s Studies and Art Departments.

Mills College is a nationally renowned, independent liberal arts college offering innovative degree programs for undergraduate women, and graduate degree and certificate programs for women and men. Consistently recognized as one of the top 100 liberal arts colleges in the nation by U.S. News & World Report, Mills currently ranks among the top 20 most diverse liberal arts colleges. The New York Times recently selected Mills as one of three leading California colleges for students to consider.

In 2006, the Washington Monthly College Rankings named Mills a leading liberal arts college based on community service, research spending, quality of preparation for graduate education, and social mobility. In addition, The Princeton Review’s annual guide, the Best 361 Colleges (2007) included Mills for the second year in a row among top U.S. institutions offering students an outstanding undergraduate education.

Nestled in the foothills of Oakland, California, on 135 lush acres, Mills provides a dynamic liberal arts education fostering women’s leadership, social responsibility, and creativity..

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