Penelope Rosemont

Penelope Rosemont
Penelope Rosemont signing at Chicago's Women and Children First, 2007.

Penelope Rosemont (born 1942 in Chicago, Illinois) is a visual artist, writer, publisher, and social activist who attended Lake Forest College. She has been a participant in the Surrealist Movement since 1965. With Franklin Rosemont, Bernard Marszalek, Robert Green and Tor Faegre, she established the Chicago Surrealist Group in 1966.[1] She was in 1964-1966 a member of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), commonly known as the Wobblies, and was part of the national staff of Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) in 1967-68. Her influences include Andre Breton and Guy Debord of the Situationist International, Emma Goldman and Lucy Parsons.[2]

  1. ^ Abigail Susik, Surrealist Sabotage and the War on Work, Manchester University Press, 2021, pp. 182 and 186-7
  2. ^ Rosemont, Frankin, Penelope Rosemont, and Paul Garon. The Forecast is Hot! Tracts and Other Declarations of the Surrealist Movement in the United States, 1966-1976. Black Swan Press, 1977, p. 173.