Sarah Stifler papers 1967-2002

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Sarah Stifler papers 1967-2002

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Journal articles, newspaper clippings,dissertations, bibliographies, correspondence, flyers, slides and photographscollected by art scholar Sarah Stifler who researched the materials for herdoctoral dissertation, (2002). The bulk of thematerials are photocopies, and the content documents significant people andorganizations in the development of lesbian and feminist art, including the LosAngeles Woman's Building, the Feminist Art Program at the California Instituteof the Arts, the Feminist Studio Workshop and the Great American Lesbian ArtShow. Slippery When Wet: Visibility Politics and Lesbian Art in Los Angeles from 1970 to the Present

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Woman's Building (Los Angeles, Calif.)

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In 1973, artist Judy Chicago, graphic designer Sheila Levant de Bretteville, and art historian Arlene Raven founded the Feminist Studio Workshop (FSW), one of the first independent schools for women artists. The founders established the workshop as a non-profit alternative education center committed to developing art based on women's experiences. The FSW focused not only on the development of art skills, but also on the development of women's experiences and the incorporation of th...

Stifler, Sarah

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Biography Sarah Stifler is a scholar of art history with particular interests in contemporary art, gender and sexuality. In 1994, she received her Bachelor's degree in Art History at the University of Colorado at Boulder, and in 2000, she received her Master's degree in Art History at the University of Southern California (USC.) From 1997 to 2002, she pursued a Doctorate degree at USC, where she concentrated on lesbian and feminist art in Los...

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...