33 Facts About Miriam Schapiro

Miriam Schapiro was a Canadian-born artist based in the United States.

Miriam Schapiro was a painter, sculptor, printmaker, and a pioneer of feminist art.

Miriam Schapiro was considered a leader of the Pattern and Decoration art movement.

Miriam Schapiro incorporated craft elements into her paintings due to their association with women and femininity.

Miriam Schapiro honed in her domesticated craft work and was able to create work that stood amongst the rest of the high art.

Miriam Schapiro often used icons that are associated with women, such as hearts, floral decorations, geometric patterns, and the color pink.

Miriam Schapiro was the only child of Russian Jewish parents.

Miriam Schapiro's father, Theodore Schapiro, was an artist and an intellectual who was studying at the Beaux-Arts Institute of Design, in New York, when Schapiro was born.

Miriam Schapiro was an industrial design artist who fostered her desire to be an artist and served as her role model and mentor.

In 1943, Miriam Schapiro entered Hunter College in New York City, but eventually transferred to the University of Iowa.

At the University of Iowa, Miriam Schapiro studied painting with Stuart Edie and James Lechay.

Miriam Schapiro studied printmaking under Mauricio Lasansky and was his personal assistant, which then led her to help form the Iowa Print Group.

Miriam Schapiro did not receive a position, and was very unhappy during their time there.

Miriam Schapiro died on June 20,2015, in Hampton Bays, New York, aged 91.

Miriam Schapiro was involved in Abstract expressionism, Minimalism, Computer art, and Feminist art.

The Russian Avant Garde was an important moment in Modern Art history for Miriam Schapiro to reflect on because women were seen as equals.

Paul Brach and Miriam Schapiro moved back to New York after graduate school in the early 1950s.

Miriam Schapiro worked in the style of Abstract expressionism during this time period.

Between 1953 and 1957, Miriam Schapiro created a substantial body of work.

Miriam Schapiro created her own gestural language: "painting thinly and wiping out", in which the wiped area played a significant role as the painted area.

Miriam Schapiro started looking for maternal symbols to unify her own roles as a woman.

The Shrines enabled Miriam Schapiro to discover the multiple and fragmented aspects of herself.

One of Miriam Schapiro's biggest turning points in her art career was working at the workshop and experimenting with Josef Albers' Color-Aid paper, where she began making several new shrines and created her first collages.

Miriam Schapiro did collaborative art projects, like her series of etchings Anonymous was a Woman from 1977.

Miriam Schapiro was able to produce the series with a group of nine women studio-art graduates from the University of Oregon.

Miriam Schapiro's studios have become metaphors for her creative work, as well as spaces in which she could live her life and fulfill her dreams as well.

Miriam Schapiro's image is included in the iconic 1972 poster Some Living American Women Artists by Mary Beth Edelson.

Miriam Schapiro's painting My History she used the same structure as the House project and built rooms of different memories surrounding her Jewish heritage.

Mother Russia, was a fan piece made by Miriam Schapiro that drew from her family's Russian background.

Miriam Schapiro depicts the powerful women from Russia each on a row of the hand held fan with a hat and a veil.

Miriam Schapiro added pieces from each artist work in her "collaborative" style to join them as revolutionary women and give hidden figures praise.

Miriam Schapiro's works are held in numerous museum collections including the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Jewish Museum, the National Gallery of Art, the Museum of Modern Art, the Perez Art Museum Miami, in Florida, and the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts.

Miriam Schapiro's awards include the Distinguished Artist Award for Lifetime Achievement from the College Art Association and a 1987 Guggenheim Fellowship.