Bella Feldman's work has affinities with Surrealism, Post-Minimalism, and the Feminist art movement, although she has no formal affiliation with these.
17 Facts About Bella Feldman
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Bella Feldman was a Professor Emeritus at the California College of the Arts.
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Bella Feldman lived and worked in Oakland, California and in London, England.
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When Bella Feldman was thirteen, she visited her first art museum, the Museum of Modern Art.
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Bella Feldman received a BA degree from Queens College, City University of New York.
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Bella Feldman married Leonard Feldman at age 18, and moved to California with him in 1951 where they both accepted teaching positions.
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In 1965, Bella Feldman started teaching at the California College of the Arts.
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Bella Feldman spent two years teaching art in Uganda prior to the genocidal war in that country.
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Bella Feldman's successful fight to retain her position prompted her to later become an advocate for other women faculty, who she helped to achieve equity and job security.
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Bella Feldman was awarded an MA degree in 1973 from San Jose State University.
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Bella Feldman's teachers were Sam Richardson, John Battenberg, and Fletcher Benton.
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Bella Feldman was incensed by the tone of admiration she heard in President George Bush's voice when he referred to the Patriot missile.
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Bella Feldman pioneered the technique of blowing glass into metal forms in the late 1990s.
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The first series of mostly hanging sculptures Flasks of Fiction were originally inspired by the lanterns in mosques Bella Feldman visited while in Turkey.
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Since 2003, Bella Feldman has created a number of large-scale sculptures that embody her lifelong interest in process and materials.
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Bella Feldman has won numerous awards for her work, and her sculpture is featured in private and museum collections, including the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, the di Rosa Preserve, Napa, CA, and the Palm Springs Desert Museum.
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Bella Feldman was awarded a National Endowment for the Arts' Individual Artists award in 1986 and received Distinguished Artist Awards from Kala Art Institute, Berkeley, CA, and Women's Caucus for Art.