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 not only for women’s degradation but also a wide array of social injustices, and opposition to the Vietnam War as well. Later, Bernstein’s work continued in attention-getting fluorescents, with reproductive organs representing social justice. The humor in her work magnifies, without diminishing, the high cost of social injustice

Rosemary Mayer (1943–2014) was an American visual artist and writer  involved in the feminist art movement, and a co-founder of the A.I.R. Gallery, which also displayed her work in a solo exhibition in 1973. Mayer studied classics at St. Joseph’s College and the University of Iowa and fine art at the School of Visual Arts and the Brooklyn Museum Art School. She was fluent in Latin and Greek, and translated a diary of an Italian artist Pontormo. She has mostly been recognized for her large fabric sculptures and work on paper, drawings, outdoor installations and books. Her most well-known draper sculptures  are interpreted as an imitation of painting and medieval art. She named them after famous women, both historical and mythological women. She lived her entire life in New York, where she taught art for 20 years at LaGuardia Community College.