The exhibition will feature artworks that explore, expand and evaluate Feminist thought. CalArts students, faculty, and alumni in dialogue with feminist discourse, will be showcased in a gallery installation as well as two weeks of performances, readings, film screenings, and workshops.

Exhibition will take place in the Main, L-Shape, D-300 & D-301 Galleries

Exquisite Acts & Everyday Rebellions is a student-organized project based at California Institute of the Arts that seeks to produce discourse around the questions and contexts of contemporary feminist practice in art and society.  The project encompasses projects and workshops proposed by students from across the schools of CalArts, a curated exhibition of student, faculty, and alumni works addressing feminism, a feminist performance series, and a day-long symposium of panel discussions with guest artists, activists, and curators.

While, WACK! presents a survey of work up to 1980, Exquisite Acts brings feminist practice into the present. "We wanted to partner with MOCA to continue the conversation initiated by the WACK! exhibition," said Audrey Chan, student co-organizer of the Exquisite Acts symposium. "We formed a collaborative group to develop events that reflect the younger generation's desire to communicate with feminists of different eras and within the current CalArts community. The goal of the project is to understand our roles, as artists and citizens, in shaping the future of feminism."

CalArts played an influential role in the women's movement of the early 1970s. During that time, the Institute housed the unprecedented Feminist Art Program and Women's Design Program, which created the first large-scale public feminist art installation Womanhouse, in downtown Los Angeles, and published the influential anthology Anonymous Was a Woman. Other influences include the Feminist Art Workshop (FAWS) and the 1998 F-Word conference at CalArts.

CalArts will host a number of events, concurrent with WACK!, at REDCAT in downtown Los Angeles. Programs include Where Did Our Love Go? -- a week-long series of classic and contemporary feminist film and video screenings curated by Bérénice Reynaud, a talk by activist artist and critic Martha Rosler, and a performance by legendary dancer and artist Yvonne Rainer. CalArts is also hosting Feminaissance, a conference on experimental women writers, at MOCA.

For More Information:

Schedule for Exquisite Acts & Everyday Rebellions: 2007 CalArts Feminist Art Project
http://alum.calarts.edu/~feminist

Where Did Our Love Go?
http://redcat.org/season/0607/fv/love.php

Martha Rosler in Conversation
http://redcat.org/season/0607/cnv/rosler.php

CalArts and other Los Angeles-based schools and organizations participating in feminist programming will list their events in the Calendar area of the Feminist Art Project website:
http://feministartproject.rutgers.edu/

Participating Artists:

STUDENTS Danielle Adair Saul Alvarez Ian Arenas Jennifer Bruce Camlab (Anna Mayer & Jemima   Wyman) Angie Cardone Anneliese Charek Akina Cox with Cynthia Toffey,   Nancy Genn & Kara Toffey Greg Curtis and Al Schulte Bianca D’Amico Mariechen Danz Zackary Drucker Emily Eklund Diana-Sofia Estrada Lindsay Foster Anna Jones, Madison Metro,    Jade Thacker & Niko Solorio Meekyung Lee Eileen Levinson Laida Lertxundi & Lucas Quigley Anna Mayer Alex Olson Nate Page Marcus Pontellos Cynthia Simonian Niko Solorio Clarissa Tossin Miller Updegraff Kaari Upson & Miller Updegraff Jemima Wyman Rosha Yaghmai Chie Yamayoshi	FACULTY Karen Atkinson Lynda Benglis* Nancy Buchanan Kaucyila Brooke Jo Ann Callis Anoka Faruqee Judy Fiskin Connie Hatch Martin Kersels Darcy Huebler Francesca N. Penzani Shirley Tse Matias Viegener Christine Wertheim Millie Wilson * former faculty	ALUMNI Judie Bamber Sherry Brody Zoe Crosher Gilda Davidian Amelia de Neergaard Chris Diaz & Vivian Babuts Dana Duff Ida Foreman Trulee Grace Hall Mara Lonner Robin Mitchell Julie Orser Laura Owens Shizu Saldamando Rena Small Genn Toffey Anne Walsh Dee Williams Michiko Yao Teri Yarbrow Nancy Youdelman Bari Ziperstein