An artist friend of mine

Now, young artists, both women and men, seem willing to embrace the ideas that helped put more women on art faculties and in galleries, and provoked the publication of books and writings on and by women and nonwhite artists. But every first-year class still has to be brought up to speed about how recent has been the push to move the margins to the center, to use bell books's concept. There has been no trickle-down of feminist thought to elementary and secondary school education. At this point, the numbers of women artists who get press, are given museum shows, and have avid dealers and collectors hardly reflect the numbers of fine women artists turned out by advanced art programs. Those artists who are not white, young, and straight, and who are openly political, and feminist, seem to still be on the margins. I hope we all will see more change soon.

Emma Amos lives in New York City. Professor of Art at the Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University, she is also a Governor of The Skowhegan School, Maine. She has degrees from Antioch College in Ohio, the Central School of Art in London, and New York University. Her awards include grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and the New York Foundation for the Arts, a Rockefeller Bellagio Fellowship, and an honorary Doctorate of Fine Arts from The College of Wooster.

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