June Blum
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An artist and pioneer in getting women artists and their works exhibited in mainstream museums, June Blum was in the forefront of the women's art movement in NYC in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Her "Female President Light Event" in 1968 helped raise awareness of Long Island artists and residents. As curator of contemporary art at the Suffolk Museum, Stony Brook from '71-'75, she created the exhibit "Unmanly Arts", the first in-house museum-curated exhibit of women artists. She also coordinated "Works on Paper", a show for women artists at the Brooklyn Museum, and began a series of portraits of women prominent in feminist circles, including Alice Neel and Betty Friedan.
In 1975, she formed Women Artists Living in Brooklyn, and was a juror of the exhibit "Washington to Washington", held at the National Museum of Women in the Arts. In 1980, Blum formed East Central Florida Women's Caucus for Art, and initiated women's exhibits around the country.
Blum, whose works have been exhibited nationwide, studied at Brooklyn College, Brooklyn Museum Art School, The Pratt Graphic Art Center and the New School for Social Research. She created Women for Art to publish catalogs, and was a member of the NY Professional Women Artists Group. In addition, she was an original artist and member of the all-women Central Hall Artists Gallery. http://www.nmwa.org/ - Go to Clara Database. You may also contact June Blum at the following - juneblumart@msn.com