A Life Woven in Color and Feminism Miriam Schapiro, born in Toronto, Canada, in 1923, was an artist whose journey mirrored the evolving landscape of twentieth and twenty-first century art. Her life, spanning nine decades until her passing in 2015, wasn’t simply a progression through artistic styles but a deliberate dismantling of boundaries – between high and low art, masculine and feminine expression, and ultimately, between personal experience and universal themes. Schapiro's early years were steeped in creativity; her father, Theodore Shapiro, an artist and industrial designer himself, nu…