From 1992 until 2003, a unique and influential MA course was created and led by Griselda Pollock. This course was the MA in Feminism and the Visual Arts, shortened to MAFEM. During this period, its students were predominately women who came to study, debate, write and make art - recognizing this was indeed a feminist space. No two year groups were alike; the course brought together practicing artists and academics, with students coming from a range of social and cultural backgrounds, geographical places, and with equally divergent understandings of the term ‘Feminism.’ The Seminar – and the Art Gallery – was the forum where text, artwork and ‘woman’ were all rigorously investigated. MAFEM was profoundly invigorating and also deeply challenging: for many of its students - life changing.

4 contributors will make an account a MAFEM experience relevant to their contemporary life now, that demonstrates Griselda Pollock’s enduring impact as a committed educator, in both personal and political ways. The panel aims to celebrate her work by showing how the core principles of MAFEM continue to underpin their work across a diverse range of sectors, and critically consider what a feminist life now looks like across very different working worlds.