Judy Chicago and Donald Woodman’s A multimedia project of Discovery

While I was a 4th year math graduate student, I applied for (with my advisor’s blessing) and was one of 25 artists selected to participate in Judy Chicago and Donald Woodman’s A Multimedia Project of Discovery during their residency at Vanderbilt University. In between writing my dissertation, I took a class in contemporary art theory with Dr. Vivien Green Fryd and developed the concept for eight 3 ft x 6 ft paintings of myself as other people’s preconceptions through Judy Chicago’s feminist participatory art pedagogy. It culminated in the exhibit, Evoke/Invoke/Provoke. The experience deeply affected my understanding of art and art making, and renewed my commitment to art even as I finished my Ph.D. in math and went on to become a math professor.

Chicago in Nashville: Feminist artist Judy Chicago’s latest collaborative work takes shape at Vanderbilt, 2006

Judy Chicago, Institutional Time: A Critique of Studio Art Education, Monacelli Press, 2014, p. 206-210.

Florida without Borders: Women at the Intersections of the Local and Global, edited by Judy A. Hayden, Sharon Kay Masters, Kim Vaz. Chapter 14: Evoke/Invoke/Provoke A Case Study of Judy Chicago’s Feminist Pedagogy, Vanderbilt University, Spring Semester 2006 by Viki D. Thompson Wylder and Keri Fredericks, p. 149-159.