Vera Klement
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Vera Klement (December 14, 1929 – October 20, 2023)[1] was an American artist, and Professor Emerita at the University of Chicago. She was a 1981 Guggenheim Fellow.[2]
Klement graduated from Cooper Union in 1950. She taught at the University of Chicago from 1969 to 1995.[3]
In 1973, Klement was a founding member of Artemisia Gallery, one of the Midwest's first feminist Cooperative Galleries located in Chicago, Illinois.[4]
She was a 1981 Guggenheim Fellow.[5]
In 1987, she showed art at the Renaissance Society.[6] She was the 2003 visiting artist at Goshen College,[7] and 2007 artist in residence at Indiana State University.[8]
There is an eleven-minute American documentary film about her, titled Vera Klement: Blunt Edge (2010).[9][10]
Her work is in the collection of the state of Illinois,[11] the Kentucky Center for the Performing Arts,[12] and the Krannert Art Museum.[13]
The Archives of American Art in Washington, D.C. holds the Vera Klement papers.[14]
