The Counterfeit Crochet Project - Stephanie Syjuco April 30, 2008

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Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2008/03/25/Women_Artists_and_Political_Expression

San Francisco artist Stephanie Syjuco describes her participatory artwork, the "Counterfeit Crochet Project (Critique of a Political Economy)."

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Political Is Personal Panel: Contemporary Women Artists and Political Expression.

A panel of diverse female artists discuss the feminist art movement and present works that exemplify how the political is personal.

Stephanie Syjuco was born in the Philippines in 1974. She received her MFA from Stanford University and BFA from the San Francisco Art Institute. She has shown nationally and internationally: at the Whitney Museum of American Art, NY; SFMOMA, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (SF), The San Diego Museum of Contemporary Art, and New Langton Arts, among others. She was included in the 2002 California Biennial, and is the recipient of a Eureka Fleishhacker Fellowship Grant for 2001, and a 1999 ArtCouncil Grant.

Her work is in numerous collections, most notable the Whitney Museum, SFMOMA, The New Museum, and the Contemporary Arts Museum Honolulu. Residencies include the Headlands Center for the Arts (Sausalito, CA), Skowhegan (ME), and the Center for Metamedia, Czech Republic. She currently teaches at Stanford University and the California College of the Arts, San Francisco.