About Sabra Moore Books
Sabra Moore is an artist, writer, and activist. After moving to New York in 1966, she became a member of the Heresies Collective, a group of feminist political artists, was president of the NYC/Women's Caucus for Art, was a key organizer of the 1984 demonstration against MoMA for excluding women artists, joined the Women Artists in Revolution, counseled at NYC's first legal abortion clinic Women's Services, and organized several large scale exhibitions in New York City, Brazil, Canada and New Mexico. She also became the editor for Heresies, the art and feminist journal publication of the Heresies Collective, and worked for thirty years in NYC as a freelance photo editor for publishers such as Doubleday, Harper Collins, American Heritage, and Random House. Her involvement in the women's art movement was showcased in the feature length film The Heretics (2011) as well as at a reading event of her memoir at the Sackler Center for Feminist Art, Brooklyn Museum. She has published a book entitled Petroglyphs: Ancient Language/ Sacred Art (Clear Light Publishers, 1997), and her illustrations have been featured in several other publications. Her most recent solo museum show, Out of the Woods, was at the Harwood Museum in Taos in 2007. Her artist's books can be found in several museum collections, including the Brooklyn Museum and the Museum of Modern Art in NYC. She lives in Abiquiu, New Mexico with her husband and fellow artist, Roger Mignon.
