After two year in development, Envisioning The Future officially began on September 22, 2003 following two weekends of lectures and panel discussions about art, globalization, and the future. Nine facilitators trained by Judy Chicago and Donald Woodman worked directly with seventy participants chosen to create–both individually and collaboratively–a variety of images of what the future might hold. The participants and facilitators from throughout Southern California were selected through a rigorous application process. Their intensive training was based on Chicago’s participatory art pedagogy, honed over a forty year period through arts activism, teaching and the production of four majoy collaborative projects.

Artist as writer Judy Chicago–who coined the terms feminist art and feminist art pedagogy had not taught in twenty-five years when she returned to the classroom at Indiana University as a visiting professor. This set of videos presents a short and full version of her work with a group of women students as they struggle with the artistic process, from conception to public presentation. Along with the students, the filmmaker explores the nature of artistic expression, the character of feminist art, and the commitment needed to forge an independent artistic identity.

Resolution: A Stitch in Time
A collaborative project by Judy Chicago
Directed & Edited by Kate Amend & Johanna Demetrakas

Judy Chicago along with a team of highly skilled needleworkers, many of whom worked with Chicago in the past, produced an imaginative and humorous collection of art works exploring the themes of Family, Responsibility, Conservation, Tolerance, Human Rights, Hope and Change.

The needleworkers talk about why they chose to work with Chicago and how they were challenged to expand their personal needlework skills in order to interpret Chicago\’s designs. Chicago, who has the unique skill to create intricate images for the needle arts discusses her interest in creating a Feminist set of Resolutions for the 21st Century.

This video, which was part of the original museum tour curated by David McFadden for the Museum of Art and Design, New York, NY is directed and edited by film maker Johanna Demetrakis and award winning film editor Kate Amend. Demetrakis and Amend give us a unique insight into Chicago\’s working methods, her sense of humor and her unparalleled artistic skills.

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