Archival exhibitions are not merely the best way to understand currents in 1970s feminist art and activism, but to form an active and personal connection to them that can energize both practices in the present. Janet Sarbanes visits "The Feminist Art Program (1970-1975): Cycles of Collectivity" at REDCAT, and "Heresies: Still Ain’t Satisfied" at UCR Arts, both which pay tribute to feminist pedagogy and organizing through the art of assembling the archive.

In this interview, Miriam Schapiro describes her discovery of a new, more engaged way of teaching when she moved to Southern California from New York, and how that was inspired by what she witnessed visiting Judy Chicago’s class at Fresno State. This meeting led to the two artists collaborating on the Feminist Art Program at CalArts, and Schapiro discusses the program and describes some of the student projects, including Womanhouse and Anonymous Was a Woman. She then discusses her return to New York and her role in establishing the feminist art journal Heresies.