Long Beach Museum of Art Video Archive, ca. 1970-2002.

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Long Beach Museum of Art Video Archive, ca. 1970-2002.

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At the core of the Long Beach Museum of Art Video Archive are more than 4,000 videotapes produced and collected by the museum from the late 1960s through the 1990s. In addition to video artworks, the collection contains taped interviews with artists, collectors and curators, as well as video documentation of exhibitions, performances and other events at the museum and throughout Southern California. More than 250 tapes from the Los Angeles Woman's Building include feminist performance videos, video art, and documentation of the feminist movement in Southern California through interviews, performances, readings and other events. Founded in 1973, the Woman's Building was an independent feminist arts institution that served as a center for education and activism until 1991. In addtion to video and a few audio tapes, the archive also contains supporting documentation pertaining to individual artists, exhibitions, grant programs and cable series, and museum administration, as well as photographs. The papers include acquisition forms, correspondence, sketches, clippings, screening and exhibition announcements, photographs of artists and installations, promotional photographs, and video stills. The collection also includes 14 framed video exhibition announcements, 14 pieces of audio-visual equipment, and four video-art installation works: Framed by Bruce and Norman Yonemoto; The Drowning Pool by Rita Myers; Seven Prophecies by Stuart Bender; and [TV console?] by Nam June Paik.

ca. 5,000 videos.

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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...

Long Beach museum of art

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The Long Beach Museum of Art (LBMA) was among the first to focus on video as an artistic medium, spurring similar efforts throughout the United States. Beginning in 1974 the museum began collecting and exhibiting video art, later also actively encouraging the development of video art by co-producing projects and offering editing facilities to artists in its Video Annex. The museum's innovative approaches to the display of video art included several experiments with broadcast and cable television...