[3] Following her MFA degree, Fishman worked as a library assistant at the Cooper Hewitt Museum from 1966 to 1968, and also served as an adjunct instructor at the college.
[5] In 1980 she was one of the ten invited artists whose work was exhibited in the main event of the Great American Lesbian Art Show.
As the feminist movement gained strength in the 1970s, Fishman abandoned her minimalist-inspired, grid-like paintings and began making work that reflected women's traditional tasks.
Returning later to the masculine realm of abstract painting, Fishman still sought a way to distinguish what she was doing from the work of male artists, both historic and contemporary.
This trip had a dramatic impact on her life as an artist, altered her way of working, and helped her to "investigate her Jewish identity.
[5] These paintings served as abstract art as well as memorials to a tragic and obscene event in history.