[1] Founding members included Lucy Lippard,[1] Poppy Johnson,[2] Brenda Miller,[2] Faith Ringgold[1] and later, Nancy Spero.
[5] Coinciding with the opening of the 1970 Sculpture Annual, they printed fake tickets and distributed a forged press release stating that "half the artists in the exhibition would indeed be women, with a proportional percentage of black, Asian, and Puerto Rican artists," forcing the director of the museum to issue a statement to the contrary.
Sanitary napkins followed...Generally, everywhere the staff went they found loud and clear messages that women artists were on the Whitney's case.
[6][7] In 1972,[8] the Committee (on the colophon listed as: Maude Boltz, Loretta Dunkelman, Joan Snyder, Nancy Spero, May Stevens and Joyce Kozloff) published the Rip-Off File.
The 'dossier' was based on responses they received when Spero and Kozloff sent letters to 800 women in the art world asking for stories about their experiences with sexism and discrimination.