Otis presents Pioneers of the Feminist Art Movement: Ruth Weisberg

Professor Ruth Weisberg teaches drawing and printmaking at the USC Roski School of Fine Arts. From 1995 to 2010, she served as dean of the Roski School, and, before that, she served as chair of the school's studio arts department and as acting associate dean for the School of Architecture and Fine Arts.

Weisberg works primarily in painting, drawing and printmaking. Her work is widely exhibited nationally and internationally, with her most recent exhibitions including "Ruth Weisberg: Unfurled" at the Skirball Cultural Institute, Los Angeles, and "Michigan Collects Weisberg" at Eastern Michigan University. Additionally, Weisberg's work is in the collections of major museums, including the Getty Center; Norton Simon Museum; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Smithsonian Institution; Metropolitan Museum of Art; Whitney Museum of American Art; Jewish Museum, New York; Art Institute of Chicago; Harvard University; Biblioteca Nazionale d'Italia (Rome); and Bibliotheque Nationale in Paris.

She has written more than 60 articles, reviews and catalogue essays, and regularly lectures and curates exhibitions. She has received numerous honors, including the USC Phi Kappa Phi Faculty Recognition Award for Creative Work, the College Art Association's Distinguished Teaching of Art Award, a Senior Research Fulbright combined with a visiting artist residency at the American Academy in Rome, a National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Seminar, and a Doctor of Humane Letters, honoris causa, from Hebrew Union College.
She received her M.A. from the University of Michigan, and her Laurea in Painting and Printmaking from the Academia di Belle Arti, Perugia, Italy.

This video is part of an ongoing series of Oral Histories about early feminist artists

The entire interview can be found in the Library at Otis College of Art and Design

Doin' It in Public: Art and Feminism at the Woman's Building

Ben Maltz Gallery
October 1, 2011 -- January 28, 2012

In conjunction with the Getty Foundation's larger initiative, Pacific Standard Time: Art in L.A. 1945 -- 1980, which highlights the Post World War II Los Angeles art scene

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