Nancy Youdelman
| Nancy Youdelman | |
|---|---|
| Born |
June 10, 1948 New York, N.Y. |
| Nationality | American |
| Education | Fresno State College, California Institute of the Arts, University of California, Los Angeles |
| Known for | Sculpture: Mixed Media/Encaustic |
| Movement | Feminist Art Movement |
| Website | Official website |
Nancy Youdelman (born 1948, New York City) is a mixed media sculptor who lives and works in Clovis, California. She also taught art at California State University, Fresno from 1999 until her retirement in 2013. "Since the early 1970s Youdelman has been transforming clothing into sculpture, combining women's and girl's dresses, hats, gloves, shoes, and undergarments with a variety of organic materials (flowers, roots, leaves, and vines) and common household objects (buttons, pins, photographs, and letters).
Marina La Palma writes in The magazine, "Youdelman studied costume design at Fresno State University and was drawn into the Feminist Art program founded by Judy Chicago in 1970. She went on to the Cal Arts program that followed a short time after this. Youdelman participated in the 1972 Womanhouse, in which artists created elaborate installations in the various rooms of an old Hollywood mansion.Womanhouse evolved to become "the influential and long-lived Los Angeles Woman's Building project, and inspired similar undertakings in other cities."
Nancy Youdelman was one of the first students to participate in the Feminist Art Program, which Judy Chicago started in 1970 at Fresno State College. Nancy recalls why she signed up for Chicago's class advertised as a sculpture class for women only:
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