EVA COCKROFT

Biographical Information

A writer and art historian as well as an artist, Cockroft painted and/or directed the painting of more than 25 murals, primarily in New York and New Jersey, before moving to southern California in 1989. Cockcroft wrote extensively on murals, especially on their relationship to progressive movements for social change. She was the co-author of Toward A People's Art: The Contemporary Mural Movement, published in 1977. She and Holly Barnet-Sanchez edited Signs From The Heart: California Chicano Murals, published by SPARC in 1990. Her paintings and drawings have been exhibited in numerous solo and group shows on both the East and West coasts. She studied at Cornell University (B.A. in English) and Rutgers University (M.A. in Art History). Cockroft died from cancer during 1999.