Woman's Building Programs

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Programs and Projects

Throughout its history, the Woman's Building organized, sponsored and fostered numerous programs, activities, and artists' groups. (Timeline)

Below is a list of some of the programs and projects associated with the Woman's Building:

Poster by Patssi Valdez as part of the "Cross Pollination" series, 1986.

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Educational
Educational programs included classes in the following disciplines: visual art, graphic design and the printing arts, performance art, video and literary arts. The Extension Program also included a wide range of workshops to assist women's personal development, everything from Auto Mechanics to The Lesbian Experience.

Conferences

Women in Design (1975)
Women's Words (1975)
Public and Private Rituals: Women in Performance Art (1975)
The Feminist Eye (1975)
Lady Fingers/Mother Earth (1975)
The Way We Look, The Way We See: Art Criticism for Women in the 90s (1988)

Visual Arts

Exhibitions

Performance Art

Feminist Art Workers
The Waitresses
Sisters of Survival
FEMINA: An IntraSpace Voyage
An Oral Herstory of Lesbianism
At Home at the Woman's Building

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Folk artist Grandma Prisbrey with members of the Feminist Studio Workshop, who organized a show of her work at the Woman's Building, circa 1976.

"This Is My Body" installation by peformance artist Cheri Gaulke, circa 1985.

Video

Los Angeles Women's Video Center
Putting Our Hands to Other Labor
Video Access Class
Commissions Projects
The Woman's Building Presents
Sweet Fifteen

Literary

Women Writers Series
Manteniendo el Espiritu
Women For All Seasons
Artists in Residence Anne Finger and Gloria Alvarez

Graphic Design and the Printing Arts

Women's Graphic Center Printing Studio
The Postcard Project: Celebrating Our Heroines (with Artist in Residence Cheri Gaulke)
WGC Typesetting and Design
Madre Tierra
Private Conversations, Public Announcements
Cross Pollination

Special Projects

Lesbian Art Project
Ariadne: A Social Art Network
The Incest Awareness Project
White Women's Anti-Racism Consciousness Raising Group
The Vesta Awards

A timeline is currently being developed. It will be periodically updated as the timeline progresses. Check this site for updates!

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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.