Arlene Raven An Interview (2007)

Arlene Raven 19442006 was a feminist historian theoretician poet and art historian who has published numerous books on contemporary art and written criticism for The Village Voice and a variety of other newspapers art magazines exhibition catalogues and scholarly journals since 1969 She is a pioneer in progressive education and was an architect of the educational programs of the Feminist Studio Workshop an independent school She is also the founder of the Womens Caucus for Art the Los Angeles Womans Building and Chrysalis magazine She became interested in art at an early age believing that it separated all the boring facts of life into something magical and special