Kathy Acker and Karen Finley
APP Professors Karen Finley and Anna Deavere Smith are both featured in The New York Time’s Style Magazine’s Culture issue article, "This Woman's Work: 40 legendary female artists--and the younger women who remind them why they make art"
Julia Halperin writes, “Mentor-mentee relationships have nourished generations of artists, especially those who were not provided formal training or welcomed by established gatekeepers — and in male-dominated fields, the support between women has long served as a kind of shadow academy, anointing and ushering in the next wave of talent. The concept of a mentorship, though, as seen in the examples below, is widely variable. Some mentors are also friends, though a close connection is not always necessary. Sometimes, all it takes is a word of encouragement at the right time to alter the course of cultural history.”