Since we have a free assignment this week, I want to briefly share that I had the pleasure to read about the A.I.R. gallery, which is the first all-female artist’s gallery in the United States, opened in 1972 in New York In DUMBO. It is still open, exciting, and it’s a place to go to see what is happening. Searching on their website, I saw someone I kind of knew. Judith Bernstein, born in 1942, is an American feminist artist whose large charcoal drawings of phallic-looking screws in the 1970s represented women’s anger and oppression. Her “penis-screw” signature became a metaphor for women’s degradation and a wide array of social injustices and opposition to the Vietnam War. Ana Mendieta (1948 – 1985) was a Cuban-American artist who came to the United. States in 1961 at the age of 13 and came to prominence in 1973 while studying French and art at Iowa University, where in a performance piece Mendieta restaged a rape scene and spread chicken’s blood on her body to represent violence and Ana Mendieta (1948 – 1985) a Cuban-American artist who came to the United States in 1961 at the age of 13. She made a performance piece where Mendieta restaged a rape scene and spread chicken’s blood on her body to represent violence!!!She used feminine symbols and symbols and spiritual conceptualization to reflect personal experiences. In 1978, Ana Mendieta joined the Artists In Residence at A.I.R. Gallery in New York.Mendieta called herself an “Earth body artist” who expressed her ideas using various organic materials like flowers, moss, blood, soil, gunpowder, water, and fire. She died in a fall from a window in her New York apartment. She was 36. I found this gallery very interesting, and I plan to go there and suggest everyone go too!