Join us in this exciting conversation between writers and curators Eleanor Heartney, Helaine Posner, Nancy Princenthal and Sue Scott, who will be discussing their book, Mothers of Invention: The Feminist Roots of Contemporary Art. Joining in the dialogue is multimedia installation artist, Ann Hamilton.

Mothers of Invention is the result of a twenty-year collaboration between these acclaimed writers and curators that articulates the links that bind feminist ideas to the evolution of contemporary art. Digging deep into four crucial practices, the book illuminates how the feminist revolution sparked an artistic revolution as well. It uncovers evidence of the ways that feminist ideas like mutualism, impurity, corporality and return to the handmade shook up a ridgid art establishment and provided the nourishment for new ideas and approaches to art.

Delve into the perspectives of these pioneering women as they lay the groundwork for current conceptions of performance, craft, abstraction, and ecofeminism. We trace the narrative of the continuing influence of these ideas on artists and art establishments today.