Born amid the efflorescence of women's artist collectives and cooperatives in the 1970s, Red, White, Yellow, and Black was a short-lived coalition of four women who held "multimedia concerts" at The Kitchen-then located on Mercer Street-on December 16, 1972, and April 20-21, 1973. The name Red, White, Yellow, and Black riffed on the "red, white, and blue" of the US flag as it foregrounded the distinct ethnicities of the group's members, who were Native American (Navajo), white, Japanese, and Black.
