| LC control no. | n 97842994 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Ukeles, Mierle |
| Variant(s) | Ukeles, Mierle Laderman, 1939- |
| Associated place | New York (N.Y.) |
| Birth date | 1939 |
| Place of birth | Denver (Colo.) |
| Affiliation | New York (N.Y.). Department of Sanitation |
| Profession or occupation | Artists |
| Special note | Choreographer of Ballet mechanique for six sweepers for the Art Parade on Madison Ave, Oct. 1983. Data contributed by the Dance Heritage Coalition for the New York Public Library Dance Collection. |
| Found in | *MGZR Wikipedia, October 6, 2016 (Mierle Laderman Ukeles; Mierle Laderman Ukeles (born 1939, Denver, Colorado) is a New York City-based artist known for her feminist and service-oriented artwork, which relates the idea of process in conceptual art to domestic and civic "maintenance"; as an undergraduate, Ukeles studied history and international studies at Barnard College and later began her artistic training at the Pratt Institute in New York; in 1969 she wrote a manifesto entitled Maintenance Art Manifesto 1969! Proposal for an exhibition "CARE", challenging the domestic role of women and proclaiming herself a "maintenance artist"; several of her performances in the 1970s involved the maintenance of art spaces, including the Wadsworth Atheneum; since 1977 she has been the Artist in Residence (unsalaried) of the New York City Department of Sanitation) |
| Associated language | eng |
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