THE FLOWERING

Chicago is also an author, teacher, feminist and activist. Far from dividing the focus of her art, these identities are integral to her work, driving her efforts to achieve what has been a lifelong aim: a more just world for all beings. Written on the eve of her f irst-ever career retrospective at the age of eighty-two, after decades on the margins of an art world that devalued her work for its feminist content, The Flowering is an answer to and reflection upon her previous autobiographical writings, as well as a necessary update to ...[Read more]