Lost and Found

Schapiro is a key figure in the women’s art movement of the 1970s. She founded the groundbreaking Feminist Art Program at CalArts in 1971. Its first project was Womanhouse (1971–1972), a collaborative effort in which twenty-three women transformed an abandoned mansion in Los Angeles by creating rooms that addressed women’s experiences. At about the same time, Schapiro produced her first “femmages,” in which she combined fabric and paint into a new kind of collage, with a specific meaning for and about women.