 That larger group also included Carole Harmel, Vera Klement, Linda Kramer, Susan Michod, and Alice Shaddle.The gallery opened in September 1973, in the center of Chicago's art scene near the new Museum of Contemporary Art, and was joined by a second women's collective, ARC Gallery; together they sought to challenge the notion that women artists were dilettantes by offering a professional venue equal to the city's commercial galleries.The following year, the "New Art Examiner" described the Art Institute of Chicago "Chicago and Vicinity Show," as "a triumph" for Artemisia, as its members (including Grad) accounted for more than one-tenth of all the artists chosen.