23 Facts About Suzanne Lacy

Suzanne Lacy was born on 1945 and is an American artist, educator, writer, and professor at the USC Roski School of Art and Design.

Suzanne Lacy designed multiple educational programs beginning with her role as performance faculty at the Feminist Studio Workshop at the Woman's Building in Los Angeles.

The 1970s became a period where Suzanne Lacy continued to explore identities, women's bodies, and social conditions.

In 1972 Suzanne Lacy collaborated with three women; Judy Chicago, Sandra Orgel and Aviva Rahmani creating a piece of performance art called Ablutions.

Once Suzanne Lacy's makeover was complete the mass of older women silently dressed Suzanne Lacy in black clothes.

Suzanne Lacy produced many performances in various sites around the world, mostly focusing on race, class and gender equity.

On Mother's Day, May 10,1987, Suzanne Lacy directed the hour-long Crystal Quilt, a sequel to Whisper, the Waves, the Wind.

Suzanne Lacy believes that her work cannot be re-enacted literally based on its immediate response to specific times and places.

Between 1991 and 2001, Suzanne Lacy staged The Oakland Projects, a community performance art project, with TEAM members.

In October 2013, Suzanne Lacy organized conversations among women on the stoops of Park Place houses in Brooklyn, New York, for her Between the Door and the Street Project.

Suzanne Lacy collaborated with Peter Kirby to perform a reading of her diagrams alongside a video, which Kirby worked on, showing 70's photos of LA streets, pictures of her original diagrams, and a video of a woman tracing over the lines of her diagrams.

In 1977, Suzanne Lacy became an associate of the Women's Institute for Freedom of the Press.

Suzanne Lacy is the editor of Mapping the Terrain: New Genre Public Art, an anthology of essays about the impact of performance art in public spaces.

Suzanne Lacy has consistently written about her work: planning, describing, and analyzing it; advocating socially engaged art practices; theorizing the relationship between art and social intervention; and questioning the boundaries separating high art from popular participation.

Suzanne Lacy has held several positions at academic institutions focusing on the arts.

Suzanne Lacy was the Dean of Fine Arts at California College of the Arts from 1987 to 1997.

Suzanne Lacy was a founding faculty member at California State University, Monterey Bay and founding director of the Center for Fine Art and Public Life.

Suzanne Lacy served as the Chair of Fine Arts at Otis College of Art and Design from 2002 to 2006, before designing and launching a Master of Fine Arts program in Public Practice for the college in 2007.

Suzanne Lacy has won numerous fellowships, including several from the National Endowment for the Arts, a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Creative Capital Emerging Fields Award and the Lila Wallace Arts International Fellowship.

Suzanne Lacy was the first recipient of the Public Art Dialogue Annual Award in 2009.

Suzanne Lacy received the Distinguished Artist Award for Lifetime Achievement from the College Art Association in 2010 and the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Women's Caucus for Art in 2012.

Suzanne Lacy received A Blade of Grass fellowship in 2015.

Suzanne Lacy's work is owned by the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles and The Tate Modern.