Woman's Building (Los Angeles)
Location | Women's movement |
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Opened | November 28, 1973 |
Closed | 1991 |
Website | |
http://thewomansbuilding.org/ |
The Woman's Building was a
History
Feminist Studio Workshop
The time: mid-'70s. The place: the Feminist Studio Workshop, later to become the Woman's Building.
The quest: to find themselves, to make art, to change the culture.
— Jan Breslauer, 1992[3]
In 1973,
New building
In 1975, the building that FSW was renting was sold, and they, along with the other tenants, moved to a former
One of Kate Millett's statues that she had originally created for her work Naked Ladies was installed on top of the building in 1978 to commemorate the fifth anniversary of the art center.[9]
Numerous programs and groups formed out of FSW. They offered a two-year program in interdisciplinary arts, such as performing, graphics, video and writing.
In 1977, building co-founder Arlene Raven, formed the Lesbian Art Project with students who felt their artwork contained queer themes and content in order to highlight the contributions by lesbian artists.[5]
Artist
In 1979, artists from the Woman's Building issued a nationwide call for lesbian artists to organize exhibitions of their work as part of the Great American Lesbian Art Show (GALAS).[13]
Final decade
In 1981, the Feminist Studio Workshop closed, due to the diminishing demand for
Legacy
In 1991, Sandra Golvin, president of the board of directors, donated the Woman's Building records to the Smithsonian's Archives of American Art.[2] Other archival collections of materials are at the Getty Research Institute and the ONE Archives, both in Los Angeles.[15][16]
The Woman's Building and its legacy was the subject of a major exhibition called Doin It In Public: Feminism and Art at the Woman's Building at the Ben Maltz Gallery at Otis College of Art and Design in 2011/2012.[17] The exhibition was part of the Getty initiative, Pacific Standard Time.[18] The exhibition was accompanied by a 2-volume catalog, and a website that includes historical information about the Woman's Building.[19] On June 8, 2018, the L.A. City Council designated the Woman's Building as a Historic Cultural Monument.[20]
See also
References
Notes
- ^ "Los Angeles' Woman's Building remembered | Jewish Women's Archive". jwa.org. Retrieved 2016-03-08.
- ^ a b c d e f "Woman's Building records, 1970-1992". Archives of American Art. Smithsonian Institution. Retrieved 15 Aug 2011.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j Jan Breslauer (1992). "Woman's Building Lost to a Hitch in 'Herstory'". Business Closings. Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 15 Aug 2011.
- ^ "The Woman's Building | Los Angeles Conservancy". www.laconservancy.org. Retrieved 2016-03-08.
- ^ , retrieved 2023-05-24
- ^ "The Legacy of the Woman's Building and How it Lives On". KCET. October 2014. Retrieved 2016-03-08.
- ISBN 978-0-385-09782-6.
- ^ "The Woman's Building Records, Feminist Studio Workshop, Center for Feminist Art Historical Studies for project 36002 | Smithsonian Digital Volunteers". transcription.si.edu. Retrieved 2023-05-24.
- ^ "Kate Millett's Naked Lady on the Los Angeles Woman's Building Roof". www.getty.edu. Retrieved 2023-05-24.
- ISBN 978-0-8166-4622-7.
- ^ "Woman's Building People".
- ^ "Hello Sheila!".
- ^ "Woman's Building Timeline". Archived from the original on 2021-09-22. Retrieved 2 Feb 2014.
- S2CID 142509762.
- ^ Woman's Building records, 1960-2016, undated. The Getty Research Institute Special Collections, The J. Paul Getty Trust.
- ^ "Woman's Building Records". www.oac.cdlib.org. Retrieved 2020-04-01.
- ^ Magers, Susannah. "From Los Angeles: Doin' It In Public: Feminism and Art at the Woman's Building | Art Practical". Art Practical. Archived from the original on 2021-01-26. Retrieved 2016-03-08.
- ^ "Woman's Bulilding: Doin' It in Public". Retrieved 23 Oct 2014.
- ^ "Influential Feminist Exhibition Comes To LA". The Huffington Post. 17 February 2012. Retrieved 2016-03-08.
- ^ Weekly, LA (2018-06-14). "Status Update: The Woman's Building Earns Historic Cultural Monument Designation". L.A. Weekly. Retrieved 2018-06-18.
Further reading
- Doin' It in Public: Feminism and Art at the Woman's Building - A Guide to the Exhibition by Otis College of Art and Design, by Sue Maberry, Meg Linton, and Terry Wolverton (2012). ISBN 978-1-4774-0706-6.
- Doin' It in Public: Feminism and Art at the Woman's Building, Volume II, anthology edited by Meg Linton and Sue Maberry (2012). ISBN 978-0-930209-22-3
- From Site to Vision: the Woman's Building in Contemporary Culture, anthology edited by Sondra Hale and Terry Wolverton (2011). ISBN 978-0-930209-23-0.
- Insurgent Muse: Life and Art at the Woman's Building, by Terry Wolverton. San Francisco: City Lights Publishers (2002). ISBN 0-87286-403-0
External links
- An interview with Suzanne Lacy from the Smithsonian Archives of American Art.
- Woman's Building oral history interviews
- Woman's Building posters in the collection of the Center for the Study of Political Graphics