Friday, March 11, 2016


   


Shelia Levrant de Bretteville


Shelia Levrant de Bretteville was born in the 1940's. She is a feminist and was in her 20's and 30's when the feminism was getting big. She was the first tenured woman to join the Yale New Haven Art faculty in the 1990's. You can find her art at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angela's,  the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, Centre Pompidou in Paris, and in many other places. She has earned many degrees from various different institutes and colleges. She earned a BA in Art History at Barnard in 62, M.F.A at Yale University in 64, and honorary degrees at many other Institutes. In 71 at the California Institute of Arts she created the first women's design program. She also worked with magazines one was redesigning the Los Angela's Times.  She has also worked on newspapers and books.

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  2. Thanks for bringing her to my attention... I will look into her work and legacy some more.

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