ACTIVITIES, 1973-1991, 1998-2000

Summary: This series documents Brodsky's professional activities, exclusive of teaching and her presidency of the Women's Caucus for Art (WCA). Document types include copies of articles, reports and speeches, notes, correspondence, publications, organizational reports, financial records, curatorial files, a slide presentation, and a small number of photographic prints and videos. This material, as well as Brodsky's collection and arrangement of it, provides documentation not only of her career but of her work practices, cognitive practices, and unwavering focus on improving the status of women.

Much of the material represents Brodsky's post-presidency involvement in the WCA. Particularly the national conferences from 1984 through 1988, the organization of the exhibition Contemporary Issues: Works on Paper by Women, the 1987 reorganization of the newsletter Hue Points, and other activities. There is also a substantial amount of material related to the International Women's Year (IWY), with a special focus on the organization of the 1977 National Women's Conference in Houston and the Coalition of Women's Art Organizations. Further documentation of Brodsky's political activism is found in her participation in drafting a proposal to the New Jersey Department of Higher Education for an Institute for Research on Women. Finally, this series provides some documentation of the RCIPP activities in the late 1990s. Throughout the series, there is ample evidence that Brodsky saw the art exhibition as a strategy to advocate and educate for and about women artists.