From Site to Vision
The Woman's Building in Contemporary Culture

From Site to Vision is an electronic book (e-book in PDF format), that documents the history and legacy of the Woman’s Building, a public center for women’s culture that was a powerful symbol of the feminist art movement in Los Angeles and around the world. More about the book .

Essays:

Foreward by Lucy R. Lippard

Introduction by Terry Wolverton

Power and Space: Feminist Culture and the Los Angeles Woman’s Building: A Context by Sondra Hale

The Woman’s Building and Los Angeles’ Leading Role i n the Feminist Art Movement by Laura Meyer

Looking Through a New Lens: An Interview with Arlene Raven by Terry Wolverton

Feminist Art Education at the Los Angeles Woman’s Building by Betty Ann Brown

At Home’ at the Woman’s Building (But Who Gets a Room of Her Own?): Women of Color and Community by Michelle Moravec and Sondra Hale

The Ritual Body as Pedagogical Tool: the Performance Art of the Woman’s Building by Jennie Klein

The Community of Design/the Design: An E-mail Dialogue Between Sheila Levrant de Bretteville and Bia Lowe

Books in a New Language by Kathleen A. Walkup

Stories from a Generation: Video Art at the Woman’s Building by Cecilia Dougherty

Words, Writers, Women by Michele Kort

Lesbian Art: A Partial Inventory by Terry Wolverton

Unburying Histories: the Futures of Feminist Art by Theresa Chavez

Comments or questions: info@womansbuilding.org

Copyright. 1999-2010. This site was originally created by Ruth Ann Anderson, Elizabeth Canelake and Sue Maberry. Additional contributions by Susan Silton and Terry Wolverton.