Joyce Aiken Explained

Joyce Braun Aiken
Birth Name:Joyce Braun
Birth Date:1931
Birth Place:United States
Occupation:Artist

Joyce Aiken (born 1931) is an American feminist art historian, artist, and educator. Aiken taught the subject for over 20 years at California State University, Fresno, and assisted her students in opening a feminist art gallery. This helped put Fresno, California on the map as a key place for the feminist art movement. Most recently, she served as the director of the Fresno Arts Council.

Life and work

Joyce Aiken earned both her bachelors and master's of art from California State University, Fresno. Aiken started teaching feminist art in 1973 at California State University, Fresno, taking over from fellow artist Judy Chicago, who had started the class in 1970. She taught the class until her retirement in 1992.[1] In 1974, her students founded an alternative art gallery for women in Fresno, California called Gallery 25. The gallery, along with Aiken's class, helped put Fresno on the map as a center for the feminist art movement, and continues to be one of the longest running co-op galleries in the United States.[2] Aiken was elected as president to the Coalition of Women's Art in 1978, and moved to Washington, D.C. for a year during her tenure. The organization actively lobbied for the rights of women artists. Her work with the Coalition led to her being picked as one of the "80 Women to Watch in the 80's" by Ms. magazine.[3]

In 1986, she curated a year-long exhibition at the Fresno Art Museum that honored women artists of California active between 1945 and 1965. The exhibit was the first of its kind in the United States. She was co-chair, in 2004, of the Council of 100, an organization within the Fresno Art Museum that continues to honor a woman artist every year with an exhibition, a special luncheon, and a catalog.[3] That year, she also became the director of the Fresno Arts Council,[3] before retiring in 2010.[4] [5]

Collections and exhibitions

Exhibitions

A few of exhibitions are:

Published works

The following are books that Joyce Aiken co-wrote with Jean Ray Laury:

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: A Studio of Their Own: The Legacy of the Fresno Feminist Art Experiment . Legacy/History . California State University, Fresno . 8 January 2011.
  2. Web site: History of Gallery 25 . About us . Gallery 25 . 8 January 2011 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20101123002650/http://gallery25.org/aboutUs.html . 23 November 2010 .
  3. Book: Barbara J. Love. Feminists who changed America, 1963-1975. registration. 7 January 2012. 2006. University of Illinois Press. 978-0-252-03189-2. 6.
  4. Web site: Victor Ramayrat . 2010 . Joyce Aiken Retirement Party . . 9 January 2011.
  5. Zenovich . Jennifer . Moreman . Shane . 2015 . Third wave feminist analysis of a second wave feminist's art: A feminist oral history of an artist's last performance . Departures in Critical Qualitative Research . 4 . 1 . 57–80 . 10.1525/dcqr.2015.4.1.57 . February 27, 2024.
  6. Web site: 2012 . Public Art on the Fulton Mall . Fulton Mall Public Art Tour . Downtown Fresno . 7 January 2011 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20110116210846/http://downtownfresno.org/publicart.html . 16 January 2011 .
  7. Web site: 2010 . 39NOW . Sophia Louisa Projects . 8 January 2011 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20110126061754/http://www.sophialouisaprojects.com/ . 26 January 2011 .
  8. Web site: 2012 . Seeing Through It and Seeing It Through . Mixed Media Artworks . Jan Camp . https://web.archive.org/web/20080506075733/http://www.oakopolis.org/ . dead . May 6, 2008 . 19 April 2012 .

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