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Apr 15, 2010 - 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Cindy Nemser Reading
NEW YORK, NY, April 5, 2010 – A.I.R. Gallery and The Feminist Art Project are pleased to announce a reading by Cindy Nemser from her memoir, Tales of the 70’s Art World. The event will take place on Saturday, May 15 at 6 PM and is open to the public.

Nemser will share stories from Tales of the 70’s Art World. The first reveals how a pertinent question from W.A.R. (Women Artists in Revolution) turned the writer into an avid feminist. The second relates how Alice Neel persuaded Cindy Nemser and her husband to disrobe for a portrait. The third is an account of Nemser’s participation in the performance piece, “The Fat Dance” with Faith Ringgold and Jan Mc Devit.

Following the reading there will be a brief slide show and an informal discussion. Special guests in the audience including Sylvia Sleigh, an honored member of the College Art Association and a prolific painter of her artistic circle, Audrey Flack, a renown painter, sculptor and out-spoken feminist, Silvianna Goldsmith, an original member of W.A.R. and an award winning film maker, Faith Ringgold, a world famous trouble maker, artist and author of beloved children’s books and Audrey Anastasi, a gifted artist and owner along with her husband Joseph of the Tabla Rasa Gallery.

Cindy Nemser was the publisher/editor of The Feminist Art Journal and is the author of Art Talk: Conversations with 12 Women Artist published in 1975 by Charles Scribner and reprinted in 1995 by HarperCollins with three additional interviews. She authored a monograph about the Op artist Ben Cunningham and a novel, Eve’s Delight. Nemser published Arts Magazine and has contributed to Art in America, Artforum, The Journal of Aesthetic Education, the Village Voice and the New York Times among others. She is the recipient of an Art Critics Fellowship from the National Endowment of the Arts, and recently a recipient of Certificate of Honor from the Veteran Feminists of America. She has lectured widely in the U.S. and Canada and has appeared on many radio and television programs.