Course description for "Women's Artmaking," an undergraduate seminar offered by the Department of Women Studies at the State University of New York, Buffalo, 1995-96:

This is a general art lab course specifically aimed at women who are not majoring in art. Its purpose will be to encourage women to experiment and investigate the possibilities of art—to discover how to use and to enrich their own lives. We will try to avoid evaluations, especially those based on current male-identified values of what is "good" and "bad" art. It will be one more attempt to demystify "great art" and to prove that all art is a combination of ideas, inventions, practice, correction, inspiration, accommodation, destruction, boredom, hard work, anticipation, skill, and whatever else the artist must use to explain what he/she wants to express. Materials are extra.

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