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Annie Leibovitz: "Women"
An exhibit of nudes from her book, Women by Leibovitz . Susan Sontag's preface is still on the NYTimes sit
Annotated Bibliography of Feminist Aesthetics in the Literary, Performing and Visual Arts 1970-1990
This plain text file covers film, music and theatre resources. Compiled by Linda Krumholz and Estella Lauter.
ArtWomen.org
News - Reviews & Critiques - featured artists "We hope that this website will be a place for you to find visual art and feminist cultural production across and between disciplines and geographical boundaries."
Berenice Abbott: CHANGING NEW YORK 1935-1938
An online exhibit of Abbot's photos with a brief biographical sketch from the Miriam & Ira Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs.
BraBall
A project that began as a phone conversation in 2000 and was first realized and exhibited in 2001. People have been donating bras since then and eventually grew to 18,085 bras -- a 5-foot tall ball weighing more than 1,800 pounds.
Carrington, Leonora
The British-born surrealist who lived most of her life in Mexico is represented here with a short biographical sketch and chronology in Spanish, and a selection of images of her paintings. See also: An Interview with Leonora Carrington and a Biographical Essay by Julie Byrd see collection of images at http://www.turingmachine.org/remedios/
Dorothea Lange
A retrospective exhibit covering Lange's photos from 1923 to 1964.
Exoticize My Fist (Asian-American Feminist Resources)
"I should explain why I --an already burdened feminist graduate student with multiple 'zines, articles, and other media projects in both development & production-- felt inordinately compelled to pick up the gauntlet and tackle this Xenian task (yes, I am a rabid Xena fan): I got annoyed. That is, I got exceedingly irritated trying to find rad Asian/American women's work on the web and figured everybody else must be sick of it too." See especially "Art," and "Filmic Interventions."
For Best Results Start from the Bottom and Squeeze Up
Susan Otto's exhibit at the UCR Calif. Museum of Photography. "This cross media installation examines the gun as a fluctuating signifier in modern culture and the unconscious residue of violence and fear of violence in the average psyche. Hand guns have and continue to change as a social symbol: from petty crime, to senseless killing in the inner city, to an object that embodies urban alienation and fear. The work examines the psychological residue of violence. " See also: Gun Show: In Our Sights: Artists Look at Guns
Frida Kahlo
Short bio and links to images of paintings. See Also: Frieda Kahalo: Expressions of Pain and The Frida Kahlo Museum and Frida Kahlo & Contemporary Thoughts
Friends of Lulu
"A national nonprofit organization whose purpose is to promote and encourage female readership and participation in the comib book industry."
Guerrilla Girls
"[W]e declare ourselves feminist counterparts to the mostly male tradition of anonymous do-gooders like Robin Hood, Batman, and the Lone Ranger. We wear gorilla masks to focus on the issues rather than our personalities. We use humor to convey information, provoke discussion, and show that feminists can be funny." You may also want to check out this article from the S.F. Chronicle/Examiner online news site The Gate has this February 26, 1998 "The Guerrilla Girls Make Art Herstory (Again)" by Meredith Tromble, See also: reproduction of GG poster
Guerrilla Girls On Tour
"Changing the world one sexist city at a time. ..."Guerrilla Girls On Tour is an activist theatre collective founded in 2001 by Lorraine Hansberry, Aphra Behn and Hallie Flanagan, former members of the Guerrilla Girls. Guerrilla Girls On Tour is now a separate organization from the original Guerrilla Girls and our focus is to develop new and original plays, performances and workshops that dramatize women’s history and advocate on behalf of women and artists of color in the performing arts"
Hothead Paisan
Homicidal Lesbian Terrorist; comics for the fed-up, rage therapy for the marginalized. Way cheaper than a shrink.
Isis Plus
Features the art and culture of women of the African diaspora. Film & video, performing arts, and written word as well as West African-centered spirituality. Produced and maintained by "NetDiva" who has obviously combed the Internet for every significant work of art she/they could find. A rich site.
Judy Chicago Interview in Gadfly Magazine, Nov./Dec., 1999
Women and Art: Interview with Judy Chicago "My resistance began early on, when I was a child," writes Judy Chicago in Women and Art: Contested Territory. As a young woman, Chicago came to believe that much of the work proclaimed as great art denied her "experience and feelings as a female person." Thus began her crusade, culminating in 1979 with the completion of her large-scale installation, The Dinner Party, to create feminist art that would not only encompass and express the entire being of women, but also change the world. by John W. Whitehead
Kirsten Lavers
British artist Kirsten Lavers states: "My artwork is more usually made in response to non-art spaces, places where people who come across it are not necessarily expecting to have an 'art." This site contains one Web project in collaboration with poet Cris Cheek and documentation of three other installations.
La Marquesa Art Gallery
La Marquesa Art Gallery is a non-profit art gallery featuring mostly unknown San Diego / Tijuana based artists. This site is still in development but one large exhibit by D. Emily Hicks is up, Ecotina and the Kids from Perkins.
Laughter Ten Years After
"Laughter Ten Years After is a replay and expansion of The Revolutionary Power of Women's Laughter, an exhibition organized by Jo Anna Isaak which opened in New York City in January of 1983 and traveled in the U.S. and Canada for a period of two years. Laugher Ten Years After is intended to commemorate the earlier exhibition and the exceptionally prolific decade of woman's art production which followed."
Lisa Yuskavage: The Power of Pretty
Online exhibit and text by painter Lisa Yuskavage. See also: ArtNet review 'girly grotesquerie' by Peter Schjeldahl - Catalog available
Marisol Fern·ndez - Archangel: Picturing Dreams
Digitally produced images that deal in part, with the death of the artist's father. "After a number of collective exhibitions and a few one person shows, this is the first time that I present myself with such intimate and profound feelings."
The Moonsisters
The images and text in The Moonsisters were created by Bea Nettles. The poetry was written by her mother Grace Nettles. Bea Nettles is the Chair of Photography at the University of Illinois.
N.Paradoxa
An international online feminist art journal. This quarterly journal seeks to explore the paradoxes of feminism and the art world today
National Museum of Women in the Arts
Features: An online gallery covering art by women from the rennaissance to living artists. Library and Research Center with artist bibliographies, information about collections of special collections and research materials. A product catalog from the Museum Shop. Information about the Museum and its programs.
O'Keeffe, Georgia Museum
Mostly useful for text. Images tend to be stingy postage-stamp size. Useful if you plan to be in or visiting New Mexico.
O'Keeffe, Georgia
Organized in three chronological sections, "The Young Artist," "O'Keefe and Stieglitz," and "The Faraway," this site presents biographical information, images of O'Keefe and many of her paintings.
O'Keeffe, Georgia - Gallery
An amateur site with mostly small but decent color images of many paintings.
Old Masters: Overlooked Women Artists
Joan Altabe in Gadfly Unline
Postfeminist Forum
"Female representatives from the visual, written, and performing arts ponder the meanings of postfeminism in their professional and personal lives. Crossley and Joyce interviewed the participants and integrated their comments into a simulated discussion of postfeminism. This forum reveals the inherent polarity in the debate--a disillusionment with feminism's proclaimed idealism and productivity, and a reluctance to view feminism in a "post" phase." Guerrilla Girls, Critical Arts Ensemble, Tribe 8, Eurudice, Kiki Smith, Deb Margolin and others
Rebeca Bollinger
"Bollinger sees the Internet as a "tremendous space to excavate. People are leaving traces," she says. "They are trying to claim this new space." And like an archaeologist who digs up fossils, pots and garbage looking for a clue about an extinct civilization, Bollinger is digging around in the living time capsules of our culture. And she's trying to figure out what the hell is going on." --Arline Klatte, the Gate
Silence
A web page version of the germinal essay by art historian and critic Lucy Lippard first published in ArtNews (??) republished in 1976 in From the Center: Feminist Essays on Women's Art
South Asian Women's Cinema
Articles and Reviews from South Asian Women Network (SAWNet) of films by and/or about S. Asian women.
The Varo Registry of Women Artists
A registry of artwork created by contemporary women artists. Searchable by artist name, genre, medium movement, and medium. Additionally, women artists are free to place their artwork on the Internet through Varo.
Varo, Remedios
The Spanish surrealist (1908-1963) who escaped the Facists of Spain and Vichy France, settled in Mexico in 1941. This site has a biographical sketch, photos of the artist and a large (47) collection of high quality images of her paintings. See also: http://www.reidgroup.com/~dmg/remedios/
Victorian Women and the Visual Arts
Part of the long-established collectively produced hypertext, The Victorian Web. Both rich and spotty -- some artists are well covered others only listed. Subjects: Women as Subject, Professional Artists, Professional Sculptors, Amateur Watercolorists, Writers on the Arts, Art Education for Women. See also Professor Florence Boos' gallery of Victorian and Edwardian Women Artists at the University of Iowa.
Yolanda Andrade: "Mexico City"
"These photographs are part of a personal project about Mexico City which will take an extended period of time to complete. My project is to see Mexico City from a very personal point of view, to envision it as if I were making a visual diary, with my comments about politics, womanhood, machismo, religion, traditions, sexual mores, social attitudes, the imagination of the common person, high art and popular culture."
WomEnhouse
"WomEnhouse is a collaborative, multi-authored site that explores the politics of domesticity and gender relations through virtual "rooms" and conceptual domestic "spaces" by 24 artists, architects, poets, art historians, and cultural theorists."
Women & Performance: A Journal of Feminist Theory
Published by NYU's Dept. of Performance Studies. "Features essays, scripts, interviews and articles on performance from interdisciplinary feminist perspectives."
Women's Art
Women in the library school at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill rounded up these resources.
Women's Art Registry (Australia)
The Women's Art Register is a collection of national significance used by artists, curators, teachers, students, researchers, designers and the general public. Established by artists in 1975 the Register records and promotes the work of Australian-based women. The earliest images date from 1840.
Women's Caucus for Art (National office)
"Founded in 1972 at an annual meeting of the College Art Association, the Women's Caucus for Art draws a multi-cultural, multi-disciplinary membership of over 3,000 artists, art historians and educators, gallery and museum professionals, critics, collectors, and other professionals involved in the visual arts." Organization information, not much else.
Women's Studio Workshop
Women's Studio Workshop is a not for profit artists' space founded in 1974 to provide a supportive working environment for all persons interested in the arts. WSW staff artists coordinates grants, fellowships, internships, and exhibition opportunities for visual artists in state of the art printmaking, papermaking and photography studios.
Women in Cinema: A Reference Guide
"Film, cinema, movies, motion pictures -- covers a wide range of topics. Though "Women in Cinema" narrows the topic in one sense to a particular type of film, at the same time it broadens it to include many aspects of topics such as feminism, the women's movement, and women's issues." from the introduction by the site author, Philip McEldowney, University of Virginia.
World's Women Online Gallery of Artists
While this site suffers from its minimal and confusing organization, it is well worth the effort. Lots of images of art by women from around the world, short biographies of the artist is included. Click on small images to see larger ones.

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