Description: The official website for the documentary film Judy Chicago and the California Girls, made by and about women, at the birth of the Women's Art Movement in 1971.
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At the height of the 1970's Women's Movement, on the cusp of revolutionary change, American artist Judy Chicago began a unique experiment: to train only young women artists in an all-woman art program at Fresno State College. So many young women were going into art schools, Chicago states, so few coming out the other end as professional artists. The film "Judy Chicago & the California Girls" documents this first all-woman art program, in a compelling and candid portrait of a country and culture in the midst
Awards, Festivals, Screenings and Collections:
- Los Angeles International Film Festival, Metropolitan Museum of Art , Whitney Museum of American Art , Armand Hammer Museum , National Museum of Women in the Arts , Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles and Geneva , California Institute for the Arts , Otis College of Art & Design , Princeton University, Stanford University, Columbia University, New York University, Vassar College, the Schlesinger Library at Radcliffe, the University of Chicago, the University of California, the University of Capetown,