Laura Meyer received her PhD in Art History from the University of California, Los Angeles, in 2003. She also holds an MFA in painting from California State University, Los Angeles.
Her publications on contemporary art issues include A Studio of Their Own: the Legacy of the Fresno Feminist Experiment (Fresno State Press, forthcoming in 2009); “The Woman’s Building and Los Angeles’ Leading Role in the Feminist Art Movement,” in the e-book, [From Site to Vision] the Woman’s Building in Contemporary Culture, edited by Sondra Hale and Terry Wolverton, http://fromsitetovision.org (2007); and “Power and Pleasure: Feminist Art Practice and Theory in the United States and Britain,” in A Companion to Contemporary Art Since 1945, edited by Amelia Jones (Boston: Blackwell Publishers, 2006). She is currently writing a book on Louise Bourgeois and the Abstract Expressionist Movement.
Dr. Meyer is Assistant Professor of Modern and Contemporary Art at Fresno State University. She teaches upper division courses on 19th Century Modern Art, 20th Century Modern Art, and Contemporary Art Since 1945. Her graduate seminars have covered topics including Theories of Modernism and Postmodernism, Pop Art, French Impressionism, and the Legacy of the Feminist Art Movement. |
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| Gina Strumwasser, received her Ph.D. in Art History from UCLA and is a Professor of Art , specializing in Renaissance and Baroque art. She has published articles and presented papers on a diversity of subjects including Leonardo da Vinci, Jan van Eyck, Rembrandt, heroic women from the Old Testament, problems of gender in art, humor, popular culture and advertising. She enjoys traveling to Italy and has led numerous tours to Rome, Florence and Venice -- visiting museums, churches, piazzas and palazzi. |
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