Elizabeth Stephens - Artists and Political Expression April 30, 2008

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

Elizabeth Stephens, Chair of the Art Department at the University of California - Santa Cruz, argues that politically-aware artists have a particular responsibility to incorporate their beliefs into their work.

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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.

Multimedia artist Elizabeth Stephens works in performance, sculpture, web based media and photography. She lives between the Love Art Lab in San Francisco and the Love Art Shack in Boulder Creek, California. She is currently the chair of the UCSC Art Department where she teaches in the intermedia and sculpture areas.

Most recently she has been performing Exposed: Experiments in Love, Sex, Death and Art with her partner Annie Sprinkle. Together they are doing a seven-year performance art piece about love.