Digital Archive

Women in the Arts Foundation

Entity type: Organization

Founded in 1971 by artists, writers and other art world professionals meeting in lower Manhattan during a time of great unrest and creative ferment, Women in the Arts quickly grew into a national organization. It incorporated in 1973 as Women in the Arts Foundation, Inc. (WIA). Throughout its history, WIA has proved to be adaptable and creative in its ongoing work to change outdated concepts and attitudes about women as professional artists.

Alberta Arthurs

Entity type: Individual

Alberta Arthurs is a consultant and commentator who is active in culture, philanthropy, and higher education. She was the long-time Director for Arts and Humanities at the Rockefeller Foundation, and earlier served as President of Chatham College. She has written and published extensively, including as co-editor of Crossroads: Arts and Religion in American Life.   .  

Cynthia Bickley-Green

Entity type: Individual

Cynthia Bickley-Green is an American painter associated with the Washington Color school. She was associated with A.I.R in the 1970s and part of the 1972 National Conference of Women in the Visual Arts at Corcoran Gallery in Washington, D.C.

Edit D'Ak

Entity type: Individual

Edik D'Ak was born in Hungary and later became an American art critic and writer. D'ak founded Printed Matter and co-founded the journal Art-Rite.

New Museum Digital Archive

Entity type: Repository

Agnes Gund

Entity type: Individual

Agnes Gund was an American philanthropist, arts patron, art collector, and arts education and social justice advocate. She was President Emerita and Life Trustee of the Museum of Modern Art and Chairman of its International Council. She was a board member of MoMA PS1. In 1977, in response to New York City budget cuts to arts education in public schools, Gund founded Studio in a School, a nonprofit that engages professional artists as art instructors in public schools and community-based organizations. This biography is from Wikipedia under an Attribution-ShareAlike Creative Commons License.

Heresies Collective

Entity type: Organization

The Heresies Collective was founded in 1976 in New York City, by a group of feminist political artists. The group sought to, among other goals, examine art from a feminist and political perspective. In addition to a variety of actions and cultural output, the collective was responsible for the overseeing the publication of the journal Heresies: A feminist publican on art and politics, which was published from 1977 until 1993.

Margo Machida

Entity type: Individual

Margo Machida is an American art historian, curator, cultural critic, and artist. She has Japanese ancestry and grew up in Hawaii. Machida is a Professor of Art History and Asian and Asian American Studies at the University of Connecticut, Storrs. Her book, Unsettled Visions: Contemporary Asian American Artists and the Social Imaginary, (Duke University Press, 2009) was awarded the Cultural Studies Book Award from the Association for Asian American Studies in 2011. In 2003 she co-edited the book, Fresh Talk/Daring Gazes: Conversations on Asian American Art, published by the University of California Press. She was a co-founder of Godzilla, an arts advocacy organization for Asian American artists. Machida curated the exhibition, Icons of Presence: Asian American Activist Art presented at the Chinese Cultural Center in San Francisco, California. She received her PhD in American Studies from the State University of New York, Buffalo.  This biography is from Wikipedia under an Attribution-ShareAlike Creative Commons License.

David Plakke

Entity type: Individual

"Where We At" Black Women Artists, Inc. (WWA)

Entity type: Organization

"Where We At" Black Women Artists, Inc. (WWA) was a collective of Black women artists affiliated with the Black Arts Movement of the 1960s and 1970s. It included artists such as Dindga McCannon, Kay Brown, Faith Ringgold, Carol Blank, Jerri Crooks, Charlotte Kâ (Richardson), and Gylbert Coker. Where We At was formed in the spring of 1971, in the wake of an exhibition of the same name organized by 14 Black women artists at the Acts of Art Gallery in Greenwich Village. Themes such as the unity of the Black family, Black female independence and embodiment, Black male-female relationships, contemporary social conditions, and African traditions were central to the work of the WWA artists. The group was intended to serve as a source of empowerment for African-American women, providing a means for them to control their self-representation and to explore issues of Black women's sensibility and aesthetics. Like AfriCobra, a Chicago-based Black Arts group, the WWA was active in fostering art within the African-American community and using it as a tool of awareness and liberation. The group organized workshops in schools, jails and prisons, hospitals, and cultural centers, as well as art classes for youth in their communities.   This biography is from Wikipedia under an Attribution-ShareAlike Creative Commons License.

Lawrence Alloway

Entity type: Individual

Lawrence Reginald Alloway was an English art critic and curator who worked in the United States from 1961. In the 1950s, he was a leading member of the Independent Group in the UK and in the 1960s was an influential writer and curator in the US. He first used the term "mass popular art" in the mid-1950s and used the term "Pop Art" in the 1960s to indicate that art has a basis in the popular culture of its day and takes from it a faith in the power of images. This biography is from Wikipedia under an Attribution-ShareAlike Creative Commons License.

Robbin Ami Silverberge

Entity type: Individual

Robbin Ami Silverberg is an artist and founding director of Dobbin Mill, a hand-papermaking studio, and Dobbin Books, a collaborative artist book studio. Robbin Ami Silverberg's artwork is divided between artist books and installations. The work conceptually focuses on themes of interlinearity, mapping, and memory, with an emphasis on process and paper as activated substrate.

Paule Anglim

Entity type: Individual

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Paule Isabelle Anglim was a Canadian-born gallerist, dealer, and curator. She founded and directed Gallery Paule Anglim in San Francisco for approximately four decades before her death on April 2, 2015. According to a tribute written about her in SF Gate April 2, 2015, Anglim "endeared herself to the artists she handled with her unflinching commitment to work that she believed in. Her exhibitions encompassed the work of defining figures of the Bay Area Beat era and conceptual art sensibility, such as David Ireland, Paul Kos, Tom Marioni and Jim Melchert. This biography is from Wikipedia under an Attribution-ShareAlike Creative Commons License.

Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution

Entity type: Repository

The Archives of American Art is the largest collection of primary resources documenting the history of the visual arts in the United States. More than 20 million items of original material are housed in the Archives' research centers in Washington, D.C., and New York City. As a research center within the Smithsonian Institution, the Archives houses materials related to a variety of American visual art and artists. 

Marilyn Arsem

Entity type: Individual

Marilyn Arsem is an American contemporary artist. She creates live events, performances, makes installations, site-specific, interactive art. Her works were presented throughout Europe, Asia, North and South America, and in the Middle East. This biography is from Wikipedia under an Attribution-ShareAlike Creative Commons License.

ArtTable

Entity type: Organization

ArtTable is the foremost professional organization dedicated to advancing the leadership of women and nonbinary professionals in the visual arts. Through their membership network and community initiatives, their goal is to expand professional opportunities for women and nonbinary professionals from historically underrepresented backgrounds and at all stages of their careers by supporting and fostering a stronger future for everyone in the arts. All ArtTable members can connect with the worldwide network of professional peers through their member directory, programs, and volunteer opportunities.

Dotty Attie

Entity type: Individual

David Attie

Entity type: Individual

Nancy Azara

Entity type: Individual

Susan Baker

Entity type: Individual

Susan Baker came to WSW to silkscreen her artist’s book, Don’t Bug the Waitress. Susan graduated from Rhode Island School of Design in 1968. Currently she maintains the (pre-mortem) Susan Baker Memorial Museum on Cape Cod.

Jennifer Bartlett

Entity type: Individual

Rachel bas-Cohain

Entity type: Individual

J. Catherine Bebout

Entity type: Individual

Catherine Bebout received an MFA from Rochester Institute of Technology in Printmaking and Sculpture. She is a Professor of Art and the Director of Printmaking at Montclair State University since 1996. Bebout has exhibited her work nationally and internationally with solo exhibitions in Shanghai, China, Quebec, Canada, and Auckland, New Zealand. As a Fulbright Senior Research Scholar to India, her work was in a traveling exhibition that opened at the Ruchika Art Gallery in Goa and travel to the Prince of Wales Museum, Mumbai and Lalit Kala Akademi in Chennai, India.

Margarita Beccera Cano

Entity type: Individual

Margarita Becerra Cano came to WSW from Colombia via SUNY-Stony Brook. She received an MFA from Syracuse University for Art Video Production, and did additional graduate work at Tulane. At WSW, Margarita’s artist’s book, Satanic Loves combined letterpress, photography, handmade paper and mixed media. Satanic Loves explores the historical manipulation of women’s sexuality by the Catholic Church.