Sisters of Survival records, 1954-2015
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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 ...
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...
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 ...
Allyn, Jerri, 1952-
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Jerri Allyn is an American feminist performance, installation artist and educator based in Los Angeles, California. Allyn earned an M.A. in Art and Community from Goddard College in 1978 and also attended The Feminist Studio Workshop at the Los Angeles Woman's Building from 1978-1978. Allyn was active in the feminist art movement, co-founding multiple feminist performance groups in the 1970s and 1980s. The first of these was "The Waitresses," co-founded with Anne Gauldin in 1977. All of the mem...
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...
Sisters of Survival
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Sisters of Survival (S.O.S.) was an anti-nuclear performance art group founded in 1981 by Jerri Allyn, Nancy Angelo, Anne Gauldin, Cheri Gaulke, and Sue Maberry. Emerging from the feminist art movement, S.O.S. used the nun image to represent a sisterhood ordered around nuclear disarmament and world peace. Clothing themselves in the colors of the rainbow, their imagery evoked hope, humor, and a celebration of diversity. Inspired by anti-nuclear war demonstrations in Europe, S.O.S. created "End o...
