Feminist Art Coalition
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The Feminist Art Coalition (FAC) is a collaboration of over 100 art museums and nonprofit institutions from across the United States. The organizations are collectively creating a series of programming and exhibitions centered around feminist thought to be held beginning in the fall of 2020, during the run-up of the presidential election. The project was initially planned to occur from September through November 2020, but has been extended through the end of 2021 due to changes in exhibition schedules resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic.
A feminist art initiative was conceived by Apsara DiQuinzio in early 2017 in response to the 2016 presidential election and the grassroots organization of the Women's March in Washington, D.C., that followed.[1] DiQuinzio, a curator at the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, in the lead up to the 2020 presidential election, planned a series of arts programming centering on feminist ideas. The concept for the FAC was largely inspired by the model of Getty's Pacific Standard Time. The Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts awarded a $50,000 curatorial grant to the Feminist Art Coalition in 2017, which provided the necessary funding to the working group to plan and shape the project together and the development of the website.[2]
In spring 2018, the working group of curators convened in Berkeley and a roundtable titled Feminist Curatorial Practices was held on campus, hosted by Julia Bryan-Wilson and the Arts Research Center; attendants of a colloquium in Berkeley included Adrienne Edwards, Rita Gonzalez, and Henriette Huldisch.[1]
The organizers of the Feminist Art Coalition have emphasized that the initiative is gender-inclusive and recognizes a plurality of different feminisms.[3]