Background
Raven, Arlene was born on July 12, 1944 in Baltimore. Daughter of Joseph and Annette Rubin. Bachelor of Arts, Hood College, 1965, honorary Doctor, 1979.
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Raven, Arlene was born on July 12, 1944 in Baltimore. Daughter of Joseph and Annette Rubin. Bachelor of Arts, Hood College, 1965, honorary Doctor, 1979.
Master of Fine Arts, GeorgeWashington University, 1967. Master of Arts, Johns Hopkins University, 1971. Doctor of Philosophy, International College, 1975.
Founder, board directors The Woman"s Building, Los Angeles, 1973-1983.
Founder, executive editor Chrysalis magazine, Los Angeles, 1976-1980. Guest curator Long Beach Museum Art, California, 1982-1983.
Member of faculty University of Southern California, 1982-1983, Otis/Parsons, Los Angeles, 1981-1983. Member of faculty New School Social Research, New York City, 1983, Parsons School Design, 1996.
Art critic, New York and California, 1983, village Voice, also art magazines, scholarly journals and newspapers.
Advisor arts committee Committee on the Observance of International Women"s Year, 1977.
Arlene Raven"s parents were Joseph and Annette Rubin, middle-class Jewish-American parents, in Baltimore, Maryland. Raven earned an Artium Baccalaureatus from Hood College in Maryland in 1965, then went on to complete graduate study. Raven was a major figure in the Feminist Art Movement and was part of an effort to educate women artists and provide them with opportunities to make and show work that was specifically about their experiences as women.
In 1973, Raven co-founded the Feminist Studio Workshop with Judy Chicago and Sheila Levrant de Bretteville.
The goal of the Feminist Studio Workshop, an independent art school ultimately housed in the Los Angeles Woman"s Building, was to "come together as a community of working individuals whose work grows out of our shared experiences as women and our shared social context," and an emphasis was put on "cooperation, collaboration, and sisterhood." That same year, Raven co-founded The Center for Feminist Art Historical Studies with fellow Johns Hopkins-educated art historian Ruth Iskin. The Center was dedicated to serious research on women artists, developing a feminist art historical methodology, and creating a slide archive of work by women.
Raven also co-founded and edited the women"s culture magazine Chrysalis. In addition to the Feminist Studio Workshop, Raven also taught at the California Institute of the Arts, Maryland Institute College of Art, Parsons The New School for Design, University of California, Los Angeles, University of Southern California and The New School for Social Research.
In the 1980s she became the chief art critic for the Village Voice.
She curated ten exhibitions, including ones for the Baltimore Museum of Art and the Long Beach Museum of Artist In 2000, Raven became critic-in-residence at the Rinehart School of Sculpture at the Maryland Institute College of Artist In 2002, she received the Frank Jewett Mather Award for art criticism from the College Art Association.
Raven died of cancer at her home in Brooklyn, New York on August 1, 2006, aged 62.
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Founder, advisor Women's Caucus for Art, 1973, California Commission on Status of Women, 1977-1983. Member College Art Association, Art Critics International (American section), National Writers Union.