Linda Plotkin is an American postwar and contemporary artist this collection consists of feminist publications related to art and issues of Ms. Magazine (an American liberal feminist magazine).
Linda Plotkin Collection of Feminist Publications, #07140, Special Collections Library, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA.
Terms of Use and Reproduction
Photocopies of original materials may be made available for research purposes at the discretion of the Eberly Family Special Collections Library. Photocopies or reproductions of original materials may be subject to fees as outlined by the Pennsylvania State University Libraries reproduction policies. Copyright is retained by the creators of items in these papers, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law. Patrons seeking advice on the availability of unpublished materials for publication should consult relevant copyright law and laws of libel.
Source of Acquisition
Gift of Linda Plotkin; 2010.
Biographical or Historical Sketch
Linda Plotkin (1938- )was born and educated in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and received a B.A. in art from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1961, and an M.F.A. from Pratt Institute in 1962. She lived in Centre County 1962-1979, teaching at Penn State as a visiting lecturer in 1970 and as an assistant professor of art from 1972 to 1977. During these years Plotkin and other feminists started a women's group in Centre County, Pennsylvania. Members attended conferences in New York and staged events in State College against the Vietnam War and for women's reproductive rights. Plotkin remembered they arranged a "military ball" where all attendees dressed in black and wore death masks. This group of feminists were the motive force behind the opening of a shelter for abused women in State College, Pennsylvania. In addition to Plotkin's activism in these years, she was highly productive professionally. Her intaglio prints won her many awards in the late 1960s and early 1970s. By then her works had been shown at 30 public and private galleries and were part of collections at the Brooklyn Museum of Art, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Library of Congress, the Metropolitan Museum, and the Philadelphia Museum of Art. When she left Penn State in 1977, she obtained positions first at SUNY-Purchase (1986), then the Manhattan Graphics Center(1989), and finally the City University of New York-New York City College of Technology - Department of Advertising Design and Graphic Arts (1989 - ). She continues to exhibit widely and collaborate with artists in other fields. Her work is frequently published.
