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Join us for a special discussion on the release of Mothers of Invention: The Feminist Roots of Contemporary Art, by writers and curators Eleanor Heartney, Helaine Posner, Nancy Princenthal, and Sue Scott. Released this summer, Mothers of Invention: The Feminist Roots of Contemporary Art explores the lineages of performance, abstraction, craft, and ecofeminism in ways that demonstrate the debt these crucial genres owe to the work of pioneering women artists. As well as tracing our themes to the present, we recognize foundational figures—mothers of invention—in each, including Marina Abramović, Lenore Tawney, Pat Steir, and Mierle Ukeles.

Mothers of Invention: The Feminist Roots of Contemporary Art is the latest product of a twenty-year collaboration following After the Revolution: Women who Transformed Contemporary Art, an in-depth examination of the work of twelve contemporary women artists from diverse generations, media and backgrounds, and The Reckoning: Women Artists of the New Millennium, which focuses on a larger group of younger women artists.

The panel will include authors Eleanor Heartney, Helaine Posner, Nancy Princenthal, and Sue Scott, and artist Suzanne McClelland, who is a Parrish Collection artist and featured in the book. The conversation will be followed by a signing in the Museum Shop and Lobby.