Digital Archive

Elisa Wells

Entity type: Individual

Elisa Wells is a Co-Founder and Co-Director of Plan C, an information resource for self-managed, at-home abortion with pills. She is a public health specialist with 30 years of experience in evaluation, training, strategic program development, and program management of family planning and reproductive health programs, both in the United States and abroad.

Kathleen Wentrack

Entity type: Individual

Anita Wetzel

Entity type: Individual

Anita Wetzel began her artistic practice in 1972 after completing a BFA in painting at SUNY New Paltz. She pursued further studies with Barbara Leoff Burge, focusing on mixed media collage work which she has now been practicing for over 40 years.   With Leoff Burge, Ann Kalmbach and Tatana Kellner, Anita co-founded the Women’s Studio Workshop (WSW) in 1974 in Rosendale, NY. WSW’s studios initially focused on printmaking, offering artists equipment to which they might otherwise not have access. The founding artists then further enhanced WSW’s offerings by developing a hand papermaking program and, by the early 1980s, offering residency grants for artists to create artists’ books. Anita incorporated book making practices and adapted a range of monoprint methodologies to incorporate in to her mixed media collage work. She has also authored several limited edition artists’ books.

Weusi Artist Collective

Entity type: Organization

Weusi Artist Collective is an organization of African-American artists, established in 1965, based in the Harlem section of New York City. Inspired by the Black Arts Movement, the members of the Weusi Artist Collective create art invoking African themes and symbols. The organization was a major driving force behind the development, production and dissemination of black art in the United States in the 1960s and 1970s. In 1965, several ex-members of Twentieth Century Creators regrouped to form an artists collective, naming it the Weusi Artist Collective (in Swahili, weusi means "blackness."). Among the founding members were Ben Jones, Otto Neals, Taiwo DuVall, Ademola Olugebefola, Okoe Pyatt, Emmett Wigglesworth, Gaylord Hassan, Abdullah Aziz, Dindga McCannon, and Kay Brown. This biography is from Wikipedia under an Attribution-ShareAlike Creative Commons License.

Lili White

Entity type: Individual

Since 1978, LILI WHITE has been exploring collective memory, history, origins of energy, and the primacy of dream states, through her paintings, sculpture, and installations and over 100 moving image works begun in “automatic-techniques.” White is a graduate of the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art four-year studio study in painting; and holds a BFA from the University of Pennsylvania. As an activist, she founded ANOTHER eXperiment by WOMEN FILM FESTIVAL (aka AXW) for 10 years, receiving an LMCC Grant; http://axwonline.com maintains streaming shows.

Hannah Wilke

Entity type: Individual

Hannah Wilke (1940-1993), the pioneering feminist conceptual artist, worked in sculpture, drawing, assemblage, photography, performance and installation. Innovative and controversial throughout her life, Wilke is considered the first feminist artist to use vaginal imagery in her work, and her place in 20th century art continues to be established since her death.

Susan Williams

Entity type: Individual

Linda Winikow

Entity type: Individual

Jackie Winsor

Entity type: Individual

Clare Winterton

Entity type: Individual

Contributor

Clare Winterton was the Executive Director of the International Museum of Women from 2009 to its merger with Global Fund for Women in 2014. She steered the organization through the creation of many of its most innovative online exhibitions, tackling issues from the global economy to maternal health, technology, and feminist futures. The rich multi-media projects were anchored in diverse global art, activism, and story-telling and curated by talented “artivists” and change-makers. During her tenure, the organization launched digital exhibitions – including Economica, MAMA, IGNITE, and Muslima –reaching more than 2 million online visitors and initiated events and installations in 14 countries on five continents. In partnership with then Global Fund for Women CEO Musimbi Kanyoro, Clare designed the merger of IMOW and Global Fund for Women to create a powerful combined global force for action, grantmaking, and advocacy on global gender equality, becoming VP of Programs and then COO of the merged organization. Since then, Clare has worked as a Senior Advisor to the United Nations’ Generation Equality initiative and is currently the Chief Programs and Operating Officer of the Solutions Project, an organization leading movement-centered climate justice grant-making and narrative change.

Josephine Withers

Entity type: Individual

Josephine Withers is a feminist art historian.

International Museum of Women

Entity type: Organization

Creator

Women's Action Coalition

Entity type: Organization

The Women's Action Coalition (WAC) was a feminist organization founded in 1992 to fight for women’s rights through direct action. The group was inspired by other activist groups, such as ACT UP and Women's Health Action and Mobilization (WHAM).

Jane C. Wright

Entity type: Individual

Jane Cooke Wright was a pioneering cancer researcher and surgeon noted for her contributions to chemotherapy. In particular, Wright is credited with developing the technique of using human tissue culture rather than laboratory mice to test the effects of potential drugs on cancer cells. She also pioneered the use of the drug methotrexate to treat breast cancer and skin cancer (mycosis fungoids). This biography is from Wikipedia under an Attribution-ShareAlike Creative Commons License.

Janise Yntema

Entity type: Individual

Hiltgunt Zassenhaus

Entity type: Individual

Frances Tarlton "Sissy" Farenthold was an American politician, attorney, activist, and educator. She was best known for her two campaigns for governor of Texas in 1972 and 1974, and for being placed in nomination for vice president of the United States, finishing second at the 1972 Democratic National Convention. She was elected as the first chair of the National Women's Political Caucus in 1973 This biography is from Wikipedia under an Attribution-ShareAlike Creative Commons License.

Lee Zevy

Entity type: Individual

Lee Zevy is a therapist and activist. She co-founded Identity House in 1971 with a group of gay and lesbian activists and mental health workers during a time when homosexuality was still listed as a mental illness in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. From her activism in Civil Rights, Women's Rights and the Gay Rights Movements to her pioneering research on LGBTQ sex and identity, Lee has centered her life around opening up space for those who have lacked it most.

Barbara Zucker

Entity type: Individual