Feminist Art Workers records, 1976-2013
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Compton, Candace
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Candace Compton Pappas (born 1951) is a painter, sculptor, performer and filmmaker who was active in Los Angeles feminist circles in the 1970s. Compton Pappas’ 1976 film Nun and Deviant, which she made with Nancy Angelo, is considered a canonical work of early feminist video. She also co-founded the Feminist Art Workers in 1976, along with Angelo, Cheri Gaulke, and Laurel Klick. The ground breaking performance Art group emerged from the Women’s Building in Los Angeles, and traveled the country a...
Angelo, Nancy
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Nancy Angelo (born October 8, 1953 in Carson City, Nevada, USA) is an organizational psychologist and formerly a performance and video artist who took part in the feminist art movement in Los Angeles. After studying photography in Denmark and attending San Francisco Art Institute, Angelo moved to Los Angeles in 1975 in order to enroll in the Feminist Studio Workshop at the Woman’s Building. Shortly after enrolling in the FSW, Angelo immersed herself in performance art and in 1976 she co-founded...
Green, Vanalyne, 1948-
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Vanalyne Green (born 1948) is an American artist who also teaches and writes about culture. She has screened her video work extensively in the United States and abroad, including The Whitney Biennial (1991), American Film Institute, Rotterdam International Film Festival, the Videotheque de Paris, The Robert Flaherty Film Seminar, The Guggenheim Museum and many other museums, universities and film festivals. Vanalyne Green studied art at Fresno State University in the first feminist art program ...
Gaulke, Cheri
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Cheri Gaulke (born 1954) is a visual artist most known for her role in the Feminist Art Movement in southern California in the 1970s and her work on gay and lesbian families. Gaulke holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Minneapolis College of Art and Design and a Master of Arts degree (in Feminist Art/Education) from Goddard College. In 1975, she moved to Los Angeles and became involved with the Feminist Studio Workshop at the Woman's Building. At the Feminist Studio Workshop, Gaulke studied...
Klick, Laurel, 1950-
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Laurel Klick (born 1950, Chicago, Illinois) is a motion picture Visual Effects Supervisor, artist and educator. She graduated cum laude with a BFA from Fresno State University. In 1973 she joined the Feminist Studio Workshop at the Woman's Building in Los Angeles, where she was both a teacher and co-creator of the Summer Art Program. She is a founding member of Feminist Art Workers along with Nancy Angelo, Candace Compton, and Cheri Gaulke. In 1977 she was hired to work on the crew of Star Wars...
Raven, Arlene
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Arlene Raven (Arlene Rubin: July 12, 1944, Baltimore, Maryland – August 1, 2006, Brooklyn, New York) was a feminist art historian, author, critic, educator, and curator. Raven was a co-founder of numerous feminist art organizations in Los Angeles in the 1970s....
Feminist Art Workers
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The Feminist Art Workers were a collaborative feminist performance group created in 1976 by Candace Compton, Laurel Klick, Nancy Angelo, and Cheri Gaulke. The group formed after teaching together for the Summer Art Program at the Woman's Building in Los Angeles. Compton left the group shortly after its inception and Vanalyne Green joined in 1978. The Feminist Art Workers were recognized for their combination of performance art and feminist pedagogy and their emphasis on making art in a non-hiera...
