Digital Archive

Women in the Arts Foundation

Entity type: Organization

Founded in 1971 by artists, writers and other art world professionals meeting in lower Manhattan during a time of great unrest and creative ferment, Women in the Arts quickly grew into a national organization. It incorporated in 1973 as Women in the Arts Foundation, Inc. (WIA). Throughout its history, WIA has proved to be adaptable and creative in its ongoing work to change outdated concepts and attitudes about women as professional artists.

Alberta Arthurs

Entity type: Individual

Alberta Arthurs is a consultant and commentator who is active in culture, philanthropy, and higher education. She was the long-time Director for Arts and Humanities at the Rockefeller Foundation, and earlier served as President of Chatham College. She has written and published extensively, including as co-editor of Crossroads: Arts and Religion in American Life.   .  

Cynthia Bickley-Green

Entity type: Individual

Cynthia Bickley-Green is an American painter associated with the Washington Color school. She was associated with A.I.R in the 1970s and part of the 1972 National Conference of Women in the Visual Arts at Corcoran Gallery in Washington, D.C.

Edit D'Ak

Entity type: Individual

Edik D'Ak was born in Hungary and later became an American art critic and writer. D'ak founded Printed Matter and co-founded the journal Art-Rite.

New Museum Digital Archive

Entity type: Repository

 The New Museum Digital Archive contains documentation of the New Museum’s program and institutional history in the form of images, video, audio, publications and printed matter.

Bradley Eros

Entity type: Individual

Bradley Eros is an experimental film director, actor, curator, poet, and performance artist who also makes Musique concrète sound collages, music videos, photographs, live projection performances, works on paper and art objects. His work has been presented in multiple screenings and exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Art,[2][3] and the Whitney Museum of American Art, including the 2004 Whitney Biennial, and is in the permanent collection of the museum. He has also created dozens of ‘zines, posters, soundtracks and unique artist’s books. He is represented by Microscope Gallery in New York City and is known for his work in the field of contracted cinema. This biography is from Wikipedia under an Attribution-ShareAlike Creative Commons License.

Agnes Gund

Entity type: Individual

Agnes Gund was an American philanthropist, arts patron, art collector, and arts education and social justice advocate. She was President Emerita and Life Trustee of the Museum of Modern Art and Chairman of its International Council. She was a board member of MoMA PS1. In 1977, in response to New York City budget cuts to arts education in public schools, Gund founded Studio in a School, a nonprofit that engages professional artists as art instructors in public schools and community-based organizations. This biography is from Wikipedia under an Attribution-ShareAlike Creative Commons License.

Heresies Collective

Entity type: Organization

The Heresies Collective was founded in 1976 in New York City, by a group of feminist political artists. The group sought to, among other goals, examine art from a feminist and political perspective. In addition to a variety of actions and cultural output, the collective was responsible for the overseeing the publication of the journal Heresies: A feminist publican on art and politics, which was published from 1977 until 1993.

Margo Machida

Entity type: Individual

Margo Machida is an American art historian, curator, cultural critic, and artist. She has Japanese ancestry and grew up in Hawaii. Machida is a Professor of Art History and Asian and Asian American Studies at the University of Connecticut, Storrs. Her book, Unsettled Visions: Contemporary Asian American Artists and the Social Imaginary, (Duke University Press, 2009) was awarded the Cultural Studies Book Award from the Association for Asian American Studies in 2011. In 2003 she co-edited the book, Fresh Talk/Daring Gazes: Conversations on Asian American Art, published by the University of California Press. She was a co-founder of Godzilla, an arts advocacy organization for Asian American artists. Machida curated the exhibition, Icons of Presence: Asian American Activist Art presented at the Chinese Cultural Center in San Francisco, California. She received her PhD in American Studies from the State University of New York, Buffalo.  This biography is from Wikipedia under an Attribution-ShareAlike Creative Commons License.

David Plakke

Entity type: Individual

"Where We At" Black Women Artists, Inc. (WWA)

Entity type: Organization

"Where We At" Black Women Artists, Inc. (WWA) was a collective of Black women artists affiliated with the Black Arts Movement of the 1960s and 1970s. It included artists such as Dindga McCannon, Kay Brown, Faith Ringgold, Carol Blank, Jerri Crooks, Charlotte Kâ (Richardson), and Gylbert Coker. Where We At was formed in the spring of 1971, in the wake of an exhibition of the same name organized by 14 Black women artists at the Acts of Art Gallery in Greenwich Village. Themes such as the unity of the Black family, Black female independence and embodiment, Black male-female relationships, contemporary social conditions, and African traditions were central to the work of the WWA artists. The group was intended to serve as a source of empowerment for African-American women, providing a means for them to control their self-representation and to explore issues of Black women's sensibility and aesthetics. Like AfriCobra, a Chicago-based Black Arts group, the WWA was active in fostering art within the African-American community and using it as a tool of awareness and liberation. The group organized workshops in schools, jails and prisons, hospitals, and cultural centers, as well as art classes for youth in their communities.   This biography is from Wikipedia under an Attribution-ShareAlike Creative Commons License.

Kathy Acker

Entity type: Individual

Kathy Acker was an American experimental novelist, poet, playwright, essayist, critic, performance artist, and postmodernist writer, known for her idiosyncratic and transgressive writing that dealt with complex themes such as childhood trauma, sexuality, language, identity, and rebellion. Her writing incorporates pastiche and the cut-up technique, involving cutting-up and scrambling passages and sentences; she also defined her writing as existing in the post-nouveau roman European tradition. In her texts, she combines biographical elements, power, sex and violence. This biography is from Wikipedia under an Attribution-ShareAlike Creative Commons License.

Planet Africa

Entity type: Organization

Planet Africa (1995-2004), was a jewel in the crown of the Toronto International Film Festival. For ten years, Planet Africa was a platform to showcase Black-centred stories from the African diaspora and shine a light on the filmmakers, actors, writers, and artists whose works were showcased during that pivotal moment when TIFF was transitioning from the "Festival of Festivals" into one of the world's premier international film festivals.  

Dancing Girl Productions: Alexandra Juhasz, Cheryl Dunye

Entity type: Organization

Dancing Girl Productions is the independent production company behind filmmaker Cheryl Dunye’s groundbreaking 1996 film, The Watermelon Woman. The company was the vehicle through which Dunye and film scholar/producer Alexandra Juhasz collaborated on the project.  

Lawrence Alloway

Entity type: Individual

Lawrence Reginald Alloway was an English art critic and curator who worked in the United States from 1961. In the 1950s, he was a leading member of the Independent Group in the UK and in the 1960s was an influential writer and curator in the US. He first used the term "mass popular art" in the mid-1950s and used the term "Pop Art" in the 1960s to indicate that art has a basis in the popular culture of its day and takes from it a faith in the power of images. This biography is from Wikipedia under an Attribution-ShareAlike Creative Commons License.

Robbin Ami Silverberge

Entity type: Individual

Robbin Ami Silverberg is an artist and founding director of Dobbin Mill, a hand-papermaking studio, and Dobbin Books, a collaborative artist book studio. Robbin Ami Silverberg's artwork is divided between artist books and installations. The work conceptually focuses on themes of interlinearity, mapping, and memory, with an emphasis on process and paper as activated substrate.

Paule Anglim

Entity type: Individual

Paule Isabelle Anglim was a Canadian-born gallerist, dealer, and curator. She founded and directed Gallery Paule Anglim in San Francisco for approximately four decades before her death on April 2, 2015. According to a tribute written about her in SF Gate April 2, 2015, Anglim "endeared herself to the artists she handled with her unflinching commitment to work that she believed in. Her exhibitions encompassed the work of defining figures of the Bay Area Beat era and conceptual art sensibility, such as David Ireland, Paul Kos, Tom Marioni and Jim Melchert. This biography is from Wikipedia under an Attribution-ShareAlike Creative Commons License.

Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution

Entity type: Repository

The Archives of American Art is the largest collection of primary resources documenting the history of the visual arts in the United States. More than 20 million items of original material are housed in the Archives' research centers in Washington, D.C., and New York City. As a research center within the Smithsonian Institution, the Archives houses materials related to a variety of American visual art and artists. 

Marilyn Arsem

Entity type: Individual

Marilyn Arsem is an American contemporary artist. She creates live events, performances, makes installations, site-specific, interactive art. Her works were presented throughout Europe, Asia, North and South America, and in the Middle East. This biography is from Wikipedia under an Attribution-ShareAlike Creative Commons License.

ArtTable

Entity type: Organization

ArtTable is the foremost professional organization dedicated to advancing the leadership of women and nonbinary professionals in the visual arts. Through their membership network and community initiatives, their goal is to expand professional opportunities for women and nonbinary professionals from historically underrepresented backgrounds and at all stages of their careers by supporting and fostering a stronger future for everyone in the arts. All ArtTable members can connect with the worldwide network of professional peers through their member directory, programs, and volunteer opportunities.

Dotty Attie

Entity type: Individual

David Attie

Entity type: Individual

Teddy Awards

Entity type: Organization

The Teddy Award is an international film award for films with LGBTQIA+ topics, presented by an independent jury as an official award of the Berlin International Film Festival (the Berlinale). For the most part, the jury consists of organisers of gay and lesbian film festivals, who view films screened in all sections of the Berlinale; films do not have to have been part of the festival's official competition stream to be eligible for Teddy awards. Subsequently, a list of films meeting criteria for LGBT content is selected by the jury, and a 3,000-Euro Teddy is awarded to a feature film, a short film and a documentary. This biography is from Wikipedia under an Attribution-ShareAlike Creative Commons License.  

Nancy Azara

Entity type: Individual