Grossman, Nancy (1940-)
Person
Dates
- Existence: 1940-
Biography
Nancy Grossman is an American artist. She was born to garment workers in New York City. In 1945 she and her family moved to upstate New York where they continued to produce garments. As a child she helped her parents with their clothing creation by sewing darts and gussets. She studied at Pratt Institute where she earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts, but states her early life experience in sewing largely influenced her work as an artist. Grossman is probably most well known for her work with figures sculpted from soft wood and then covered in leather, and her work as a feminist activist. Grossman has said her work challenges the ideas of gender identity and gender fluidity.
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Web Boodey and Audrey Meyer interview, 1994 November 10, 1994 November 10
Item
Identifier: SC.FITA.3.20.4.9.4.34
Scope and Contents
Web Boodey and Audrey Meyer discuss their time with the Social Science Department. Boodey was a world affairs professor and Meyer a professor of sociology who, though retired, still taught as an adjunct at the time of the interview. They talk about the dress code upheld by Marion Brandriss in the 1960s as well as FIT’s former requirement of 30 hours of mandatory volunteer work. They discuss when FIT’s faculty shared a large office, each with their own cubicle, and the beginnings of the...
Dates:
1994 November 10
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- Subject: Civil rights X