Mierle Laderman Ukeles’ Maintenance Art in 4 Works Hartford Wash: Washing Tracks Maintenance: Outside and Inside, 1973 Her Manifesto for Maintenance Art led to the first maintenance piece by Mierle Laderman Ukeles Since the proposal of the manifesto for an exhibition was rejected, Laderman Ukeles sent it to Jack Burnham who published parts of it in the magazine called Artforum