Artemisia

In 1972, at the height of the feminist upsurge, a call went out to women artists in the Chicago area to discuss the formation of a non-hierarchical cooperative feminist gallery. I went. The meeting room was packed with women. The group voted for four of the women present to be a committee that was to select thirty women for membership in the new gallery. I was one of the thirty. We named our gallery Artemisia, after the glorious Italian Renaissance painter Artemisia Gentileschi. Vera Klement