[PARTICIPANT INFORMATION: THE IMPACT OF NEW FEMINISMS PANEL]
• Panel moderator Dr. Maria Elena Buszek is a critic, curator, and assistant professor of art history at the Kansas City Art Institute. Her research and criticism have appeared in Art in America, Make, TDR: The Journal of Performance Studies, and Woman’s Art Journal. She is also a regular contributor to Review as well as the popular third-wave feminist ‘zine Bust: The Voice of the New Girl Order. Maria’s first book, Pin-up Grrrls: Feminism, Sexuality, Popular Culture, will be published this spring by Duke University Press.
• Dena Muller is Director of the legendary A.I.R. Gallery, the first artist-run, not-for-profit space for women artists in the country—a post she accepted after finishing her M.A. in 1998 at New York University. She has served on the National Board of the Women’s Caucus for Art since 2001, where she was National Board President from 2004 until 2006—when she turned over the position to Jennifer Colby. She is also on the National Coordinating Committee for the Feminist Art Project, and co-chair of its New York Regional Activities board.
• Dr. Maura Reilly is the Curator of the Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art at the Brooklyn Museum, the first center of its kind in the world. Prior to this position, she taught art history and women's studies at Tufts University, as well as courses at Pratt Institute, Vassar College, and at her alma mater, N.Y.U., where she received her M.A. in 1993 and then her Ph.D. in 2000. Maura has curated, lectured and published extensively, both nationally and internationally, and has been a regular contributor to Art in America since 1998. In 2005, in celebration of ArtTable’s 25th year Anniversary, she received one of their prestigious Future Women Leadership Awards. At the moment, with Linda Nochlin she is co-curating an international exhibition of contemporary feminist art to be presented as the inaugural exhibition of the Sackler Center in March of 2007. This year, Maura was honored with the WCA President’s Award, which recognizes and anticipates a lifetime of achievement in the arts.
• Wanda Ewing hails from Omaha, NE where she is currently an Assistant Professor of Fine Arts at the University of Nebraska at Omaha. She received her BFA from the San Francisco Art Institute and her MA and MFA degrees from the University of Iowa. Wanda's work has been included in both National and International exhibitions, most recently the 8th International Open at Woman Made Gallery in Chicago, New Prints 2005 at the International Print Center New York and the 79th Annual International Competition at the Print Center in Philadelphia.
• Leone Reeves is currently a graduate student in the Performance department—led by pioneering feminist artist Faith Wilding—at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Leone is a founding member of the performance collective/radical cheerleading squad Rah!Booty at the Kansas City Art Institute, where she received her BFA in 2003. Her recent performance work and art historical studies are informed by what she calls her attempt to “un-learn” pop culture’s negative stereotypes of feminism, in order to discover how her past, future, surroundings, and interactions are both affected by and affect the history of the feminist movement.