ABSTRACT
I’ve often stated that it would have been impossible to conceive of, much less implement, the 1970/71 Fresno Feminist Art Program anywhere but California. One reason for this became evident in the 2000 Los Angeles County Museum of Art exhibit on one hundred years of art in California, whose title I borrowed for this chapter. The Made in California show demonstrated some of the unique qualities of California culture, notably, an openness to new ideas that is less prominently found in the East, where the white, male, Eurocentric tradition has a longer legacy and thus casts a stronger shadow.
