Digital Archive

FEMINIST

Entity type: Organization

FEMINIST is a women-led social-first digital platform and collective that exists to actualize the intersectional feminist movement through the amplification of a diverse network of change-makers and creators. Their mission is to create a more just and equitable future for all. FEMINIST seeks to amplify, educate, inform and inspire. FEMINIST was co-founded by Blair Imani, Aisha Becker-Burrowes and Ky Polanco. 

Barbara Fendrick

Entity type: Individual

Barbara Fendrick, born Barbara Cooper Johnson, was an art dealer who worked in Washington, D.C., Maryland, and New York City. She worked as a docent at the National Gallery of Art prior to starting a career as an art dealer. After closing her galleries, Barbara Fendrick continued to work as an art consultant, appraiser, exhibition juror, lecturer, and guest curator.

Iris Films

Entity type: Organization

Iris Films was founded in 1975 by a group of feminist filmmakers to produce and distribute films that creatively address social and cultural issues. Iris has created the award-winning films, In the Best Interests of the Children, We All Have Our Reasons, Skin Deep, the widely acclaimed documentary about race relations on college campuses in the United States, Long Night’s Journey Into Day, the Sundance award winning, Academy® nominated film about South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission, and most recently, One Vote, a short video about women and voting in the United States. Iris Films productions have been used by activists, diversity and multi-cultural trainers, teachers, students and community groups to facilitate discussions about reconciliation, tolerance, transitional justice, racism, affirmative action, human rights, and civil rights.

Abbi Fisher

Entity type: Individual

Abigail E. "Abbi" Fisher-Gould is a former World Cup alpine ski racer from the United States. Born in South Conway, New Hampshire, she had one World Cup victory and three podiums. She suffered a knee injury in March 1979, at the pre-Olympic downhill at Lake Placid. Fisher competed in the Winter Olympics in 1976 and 1980. She was unable to start in the slalom at the World Championships in 1978 due to an ankle injury and was also named to the U.S. team in 1982. Fisher married Frank Gould; they have two children and reside in the Sun Valley area in central Idaho. This biography is from Wikipedia under an Attribution-ShareAlike Creative Commons License.

Nancy Folbre

Entity type: Individual

Jean Foos

Entity type: Individual

Jean Foos is a visual artist whose practice centers on richly painted and patterned surfaces. She gives new life to objects made from discarded packing materials and ceramics. For her installations she favors ad hoc urban settings, such as long-abandoned industrial buildings, military housing, and community gardens. Born in Rochester, New York, in 1953, Foos moved to NYC to attend Cooper Union and lived in the East Village for over 20 years. She first had a studio at 32 Union Square East, and later moved many times to work in Soho, the Bronx and the garment district. At each of her locations she was active in the community of artists and held open studios and exhibitions. Because her studio is currently located at an arts center (Culture Lab LIC) she has become more engaged than ever with the local populace.

Aminatta Forna

Entity type: Individual

Muriel Fox

Entity type: Individual

Barbara Frank

Entity type: Individual

Barbara Frank is an accomplished artist and important figure in the feminist artists' movement during the 1970s-1980s.

Diane Frankel

Entity type: Individual

Diane Frankel is an arts administrator whose career has focused on leadership within major cultural institutions and advocacy for the arts, such as the Museum of the City of New York and the New-York Historical Society. Frankel also served as president of ArtTable, contributing to the advancement of women’s leadership in the visual arts. In addition to her institutional work, she was a presidential appointee under Bill Clinton.

Dextra Frankel

Entity type: Individual

Dextra Frankel was an artist and curator. She worked as a professor of art at CSUF in the area of Exhibition Design and curated significant exhibitions in art department galleries during her tenure.

Lucinda Franks

Entity type: Individual

Helen Frederick

Entity type: Individual

Helen C. Frederick is an American artist, curator, and the founder of Pyramid Atlantic Art Center, an arts organization in Maryland. She is known mainly for printed media and large-scale works created by hand papermaking as a medium of expression that often incorporate the use of language. She has curated exhibitions such as Ten Years After 9/11, which respond to issues about the human condition. This biography is from Wikipedia under an Attribution-ShareAlike Creative Commons License.

Betty Friedan

Entity type: Individual

Betty Friedan was an American feminist writer and activist. A leading figure in the women's movement in the United States, her 1963 book The Feminine Mystique is often credited with sparking the second wave of American feminism in the 20th century. In 1966, Friedan co-founded and was elected the first president of the National Organization for Women (NOW), which aimed to bring women "into the mainstream of American society now [in] fully equal partnership with men". In 1970, after stepping down as NOW's first president, Friedan organized the nationwide Women's Strike for Equality on August 26, the 50th anniversary of the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution granting women the right to vote. The national strike was successful beyond expectations in broadening the feminist movement; the march led by Friedan in New York City alone attracted over 50,000 people. This biography is from Wikipedia under an Attribution-ShareAlike Creative Commons License.

A.I.R. Gallery

Entity type: Organization

A.I.R. Gallery (Artists in Residence) is the first all-female artists cooperative gallery in the United States. It was founded in 1972 with the objective of providing a professional and permanent exhibition space for women artists during a time in which the works shown at commercial galleries in New York City were almost exclusively by male artists. A.I.R. is a not-for-profit, self-underwritten arts organization with a board of directors made up of its New York-based artists. The gallery was initially located in SoHo at 97 Wooster Street and on 111 Front Street in the DUMBO neighborhood of Brooklyn until 2015. In May 2015, A.I.R. Gallery moved to its current location at 155 Plymouth St, Brooklyn, NY 11201.

Joan Ganz Cooney

Entity type: Individual

Joan Ganz Cooney is an American television writer and producer. She is one of the founders of Sesame Workshop (formerly Children's Television Workshop or CTW), the organization famous for the creation of the children's television show Sesame Street, which was also co-created by her. Cooney grew up in Phoenix and earned a Bachelor of Arts in education from the University of Arizona in 1951. After working for the State Department in Washington, D.C., and as a journalist in Phoenix, she worked as a publicist for television and production companies in New York City. In 1961, she became interested in working for educational television, and became a documentary producer for New York's first educational TV station WNET (Channel 13). Many of the programs she produced won local Emmys. This biography is from Wikipedia under an Attribution-ShareAlike Creative Commons License

Gay Community News

Entity type: Organization

Gay Community News was an American weekly newspaper published in Boston, Massachusetts from 1973 to 1999. Designed as a resource for the LGBT community, the newspaper reported a wide variety of gay and lesbian-related news. Founded as a collectively-run, local newsletter, early in the struggle for gay liberation, it was soon expanded into a major newspaper with an international readership. The publication saw itself as part an important vehicle for debating gay rights, feminism, antiracism, multiculturalism, class struggle, prisoners' rights, AIDS, and other causes. The newspaper's influence was such that it enjoyed a "national reach that was considered the movement's 'paper of record' throughout the '70s, and whose alumni at one point occupied so many leadership roles around the country that they were called the 'GCN mafia'". This biography is from Wikipedia under an Attribution-ShareAlike Creative Commons License.

Bob Gervais

Entity type: Individual

Guerrilla Girls

Entity type: Organization

Guerrilla Girls is an anonymous group of feminist, female artists devoted to fighting sexism and racism within the art world. The group formed in New York City, United States in 1985, born out of a picket against the Museum of Modern Art the previous year. The core of the group's work is bringing gender and racial inequality into focus within the greater arts community and society at large. The Guerrilla Girls employ culture jamming in the form of posters, books, billboards, lectures, interviews, public appearances and internet interventions to expose disparities, discrimination, and corruption (the latter includes conflicts of interest within museums). They also often use humor in their work to make their serious messages engaging. The Guerrilla Girls are known for their "guerrilla" tactics, hence their name, such as hanging up posters or staging surprise exhibitions. To remain anonymous, members don gorilla masks. On interviews, they use pseudonyms that refer to deceased female artists such as Frida Kahlo, Käthe Kollwitz, and Alice Neel, as well as writers and activists, such as Gertrude Stein and Harriet Tubman. According to GG1, identities are concealed because issues matter more than individual identities: "Mainly, we wanted the focus to be on the issues, not on our personalities or our own work." This biography is from Wikipedia under an Attribution-ShareAlike Creative Commons License.

Girls in the Nose

Entity type: Organization

Girls in the Nose started in Austin, Texas in 1985. In 1981 I [Kay Turner] met a young performer named Gretchen Phillips and she and I started hanging out and listening to records together and we were just music nerds and she played guitar and then my friend Betsy Peterson, a folklorist who moved to Austin, joined.

Global Fund for Women

Entity type: Organization

Lenore Goldberg

Entity type: Individual

Caroline Goldsmith

Entity type: Individual

Caroline Lerner Goldsmith (born Caroline Steinholz) was a promoter of the arts who founded influential New York arts organizations. This biography is from Wikipedia under an Attribution-ShareAlike Creative Commons License.

Jewelle Gomez

Entity type: Individual