Maria Karras collection of Woman's Building papers and photographs, 1972-2018
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Phranc
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Susan Gottlieb, known professionally by her stage name Phranc (Frank), is an American singer-songwriter whose career has spanned several decades. As a teenager Phranc attended The Feminist Studio Workshop at the Woman’s Building in Los Angeles, California, where she focused on songwriting and silk-screening. In the late 1970s Phranc was a member of the bands Nervous Gender and Catholic Discipline in the L.A. punk rock scene. She has released five albums of original music on Rhino Records, Islan...
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Cheryl Swannack was an artist, collector, and magician with a Master of Fine Arts in Sculpture. While in grad school, she presented renowned luminaries such as Judy Chicago and R. Buckminister Fuller, which set a tone for events heavy on content. Swannack was instrumental in the development of the Woman's Building in Los Angeles: A Public Center for Women's Culture, with a focus on the performance and gallery spaces. She worked with Judy Chicago, Sheila Levrant de Bretteville, and Arlene Raven—t...
Near, Holly
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Holly Near, singer, songwriter, activist, and author, was born in Ukiah, California, in 1949, the daughter of Anne (Holmes) and Russell Near. She grew up on her parents' cattle ranch in Potter Valley, California, and began performing at age 7, singing at local events and conventions. Near was involved with acting and music at Ukiah High School. She attended the University of California, Los Angeles, where she majored in drama. During her studies at UCLA, Near auditioned for the Free the Army Sho...
Iskin, Ruth
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Ruth E. Iskin holds a PhD from the University of California, Los Angeles. She has received the Andrew W. Mellon fellowship at the Penn Humanities Forum. Her publications include essays in The Art Bulletin, Discourse and Nineteenth-Century Contexts. She teaches art history and visual culture at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in Israel. Iskin was invited to serve as co-director of Womanspace Gallery along with Gretchen Glicksman, and soon founded (and edited) Womanspace Journal to document it...
Mogul, Susan
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Susan Mogul (born 1949) is an American artist primarily known for her work in video art. She also works in photography, installation art, and performance art. Originally from New York City, she currently lives and works in Los Angeles, CA. Mogul received her B.F.A. from Tufts University and Boston Museum School of Fine Arts in 1972, and later received her M.F.A. from the University of California at San Diego in 1980. In between this time, she studied at CalArts under Judy Chicago within the Fem...
Metzger, Deena
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Deena Metzger (born September 17, 1936) is an American writer, healer, and teacher whose work spans multiple genres including the novel, poetry, non-fiction, and plays. She received an M.A. in English and American Literature from UCLA and a Community College Teaching Certificate from UCLA in 1966. She received a PhD in Literature and Women's Culture from International College in 1975. In the 1960s and 1970s Metzger was a member of the Critical Studies faculty at the California Institute of the ...
Labowitz, Leslie
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Leslie Labowitz-Starus is an American performance artist and urban farmer based in Los Angeles. Labowitz-Starus worked at the Woman's Building, a cultural center just east of Chinatown in downtown Los Angeles devoted to feminist art and cultural change. From 1977 to 1980, Labowitz-Starus and Suzanne Lacy collaborated on a series of large-scale performances that often took place in public settings. Their first collaboration was In Mourning and in Rage. Together they founded ARIADNE: A Social Art...
Wolverton, Terry
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Terry Wolverton (born 1954) is an American novelist, memoirist, poet, and editor. Her book Insurgent Muse: Life and Art at the Woman's Building, a memoir published in 2002 by City Lights Books, was named one of the "Best Books of 2002" by the Los Angeles Times, and was the winner of the 2003 Publishing Triangle Judy Grahn Award, and a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award. Her novel-in-poems Embers was a finalist for the PEN USA Litfest Poetry Award and the Lambda Book Award. Wolverton attende...
Rosenthal, Rachel, 1926-2015
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Rachel Rosenthal (November 9, 1926 – May 10, 2015) was an interdisciplinary and performance artist, teacher, actress, and animal rights activist based in Los Angeles. She was best known for her full-length performance art pieces which offered unique combinations of theatre, dance, creative slides and live music. She was a leading figure in the L.A. Women's Art Movement in the 1970s and co-founded the Womanspace Gallery, a cooperatively run gallery devoted to work by female artists, in 1973. Sh...
King, Susan Elizabeth, 1947-
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Susan E. King is an artist, educator and writer who is best known for her artist's books. She received a B.A. in Ceramics from University of Kentucky and a master's degree in Art from University of New Mexico. She came to California to be part of the Feminist Art Program at the Woman's Building, where she held the position of Studio Director of the Women's Graphic Center. She publishes books through the Paradise Press imprint and currently divides her time between Kentucky and California....
Lacy, Suzanne
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Suzanne Lacy (born 1945) is an American artist, educator, writer, and professor at the USC Roski School of Art and Design. She has worked in a variety of media, including installation, video, performance, public art, photography, and art books, in which she focuses on "social themes and urban issues." She served in the education cabinet of Jerry Brown, then mayor of Oakland, California, and as arts commissioner for the city. She designed multiple educational programs beginning with her role as p...
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...
Feminist Studio Workshop
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The Feminist Studio Workshop was founded in Los Angeles in 1973 by Judy Chicago, Arlene Raven, and Sheila Levrant de Bretteville as a two-year feminist art program. Women from the program were instrumental in finding and creating the Woman's Building, the first independent center to showcase women's art and culture. Disillusioned with the male-dominated atmosphere at CalArts and desiring their own space, the faculty modeled their classes on a non-hierarchical structure and focused on training st...
Women's Graphic Center (Los Angeles, Calif.)
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In 1973, Sheila de Bretteville founded the Women’s Graphic Center and co-founded the Feminist Studio Workshop (along with Judy Chicago and Arlene Raven), both based at the Woman's Building. The Women's Graphic Center, run by de Bretteville and Helen Alm, became one of the most important features of the Building, and its design program was, in many ways, the core of the Feminist Studio Workshop. The WGC was built on the precepts of de Bretteville's Marxist approach, which treated design as a pub...
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...
Maberry, Sue
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Sue Maberry (b. 1949, Kansas City, Missouri) graduated from Pitzer College with a major in art. She attended the Feminist Studio Workshop at the Woman's Building 1977-78. She collaborated with many artists and artists' groups and was a co-founder of Sisters of Survival. In 1978 she joined the staff of the Woman's Building and held various administrative positions for the next ten years. Subsequently, she was Program Director at the Armory Center for the Arts (Pasadena) for four years, where she ...
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...
Gauldin, Anne
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Anne Gauldin (b. 1951, Whittier, California) is an artist and graphic designer with many ties to collaborative projects. While a participant in the Feminist Studio Workshop at the Woman's Building in Los Angeles, she received her MA in Feminist Art and Education from Goddard College. Gauldin co-founded two historically significant, collaborative feminist perfomance art groups: The Waitresses and Sisters of Survival. At the Woman's Building she helped establish and maintain the Woman's Building ...
Karras, Maria, 1950-
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Maria Karras was born in New York City in 1950 and received her BFA in printmaking from the State University of New York at Buffalo in 1973. Inspired by a two-day workshop led by Judy Chicago that she attended before graduating, Karras decided to enroll at the Feminist Studio Workshop (FSW), which opened later that year in the fall of 1973. She arrived in Los Angeles that September, and became part of the inaugural cohort at the FSW, where she attended the first classes held at co-founder Sheila...
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....
