Digital Archive

Everything People Places Historical events Collections Repositories Archived websites Ephemera Images Sounds Videos Digital exhibitions
People 347 records

David Attie

Individual

2 objects

Dorothy Atwood DeBoit

Individual

Dorothy Atwood DeBoit founded AASK (Adopt A Special Kid) foundation. AASK was the first adoption agency to focus on helping children with different needs find adoptive families. The organization currently focuses on supporting families within the foster care system.

1 objects

Nancy Azara

Individual

1 objects

Susan Baker

Individual

Susan Baker came to WSW to silkscreen her artist’s book, Don’t Bug the Waitress. Susan graduated from Rhode Island School of Design in 1968. Currently she maintains the (pre-mortem) Susan Baker Memorial Museum on Cape Cod.

1 objects

Eudine Barriteau

Individual

1 objects

Jennifer Bartlett

Individual

Rachel bas-Cohain

Individual

3 objects

J. Catherine Bebout

Individual

Catherine Bebout received an MFA from Rochester Institute of Technology in Printmaking and Sculpture. She is a Professor of Art and the Director of Printmaking at Montclair State University since 1996. Bebout has exhibited her work nationally and internationally with solo exhibitions in Shanghai, China, Quebec, Canada, and Auckland, New Zealand. As a Fulbright Senior Research Scholar to India, her work was in a traveling exhibition that opened at the Ruchika Art Gallery in Goa and travel to the Prince of Wales Museum, Mumbai and Lalit Kala Akademi in Chennai, India.

1 objects

Margarita Beccera Cano

Individual

Margarita Becerra Cano came to WSW from Colombia via SUNY-Stony Brook. She received an MFA from Syracuse University for Art Video Production, and did additional graduate work at Tulane. At WSW, Margarita’s artist’s book, Satanic Loves combined letterpress, photography, handmade paper and mixed media. Satanic Loves explores the historical manipulation of women’s sexuality by the Catholic Church.

1 objects

Aisha Becker-Burrowes

Individual

Aisha Becker-Burrowes (She/Her) is a social impact strategist, consultant, and communications professional working at the intersections of media, communications, and social change, with a particular emphasis on racial equity and gender justice.  She co-founded and leads brand strategy and impact at FEMINIST (@feminist), the largest women-owned social-first digital platform dedicated to women, girls, and gender-expansive people.

1 objects

Lynda Benglis

Individual

Polly Bergen

Individual

Polly Bergen was an American actress, singer, television host, writer and entrepreneur. She won an Emmy Award in 1958 for her performance as Helen Morgan in The Helen Morgan Story. For her stage work, she was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Musical for her performance as Carlotta Campion in Follies in 2001. Her film work included Cape Fear (1962) and The Caretakers (1963), for which she was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama. She hosted her own weekly variety show for one season (The Polly Bergen Show), was a regular panelist on the TV game show To Tell the Truth, and later in life had roles in The Sopranos and Desperate Housewives. She wrote three books on beauty, fashion, and charm. She is also the inspiration behind Mother Goose in The Land of Stories. This biography is from Wikipedia under an Attribution-ShareAlike Creative Commons License.

1 objects

Brenda Berkman

Individual

Firefighter, Attorney, Artist, Educator, Historian. Founder and former president of the United Women Firefighters. Trustee of the Women in Fire Service. Taught at the FDNY fire academy. Vice-President and Board Member of Monumental Women. Education: B.A., St. Olaf College, Minnesota; M.A., Indiana University; J.D., New York University Law School, M.S. in fire protection management from City University of New York.

5 objects

Terry Berkowitz

Individual

Terry Berkowitz creates installations, videos, photography, audio, and objects dealing with social and political critique, social consciousness and the human condition. Beginning in the early seventies, she has shown in museums, biennials and other institutions internationally including PS1 (Long Island City), the Whitney Museum of American Art (NY), First International Biennial of Contemporary Art of Cartagena de Indias (Colombia), The Alternative Museum (NY), Boca Raton Museum of Art, Contemporary Arts Museum (Houston) and Metrònom (Barcelona), Museo do Pobo Galego (Santiago de Compostela). This biography is from Wikipedia under an Attribution-ShareAlike Creative Commons License.

4 objects

Stephanie Bernheim

Individual

1 objects

Judith Bernstein

Individual

13 objects

Íngrid Betancourt

Individual

Íngrid Betancourt is a Colombian politician, former senator, and anti-corruption activist, especially opposing political corruption.

2 objects

Betty Cook

Individual

Betty Cook was an Honors Graduate from MIT and a world champion offshore powerboat racer and was inducted in to the Motorsports Hall of Fame of America in 1996. She grew up as Betty Young in Glens Falls, New York, earned a degree in political science from Boston University and then attended Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where she met her future husband, Paul Cook. They moved to California, where they became involved in powerboat racing. She won 17 races, two world championships (1977 and 1979), and was a three-time American Power Boat Association US champion (1978, 1979, 1981). She was the first woman to win the powerboat world championship (1977) in what had been traditionally a male-only sport.  This biography is from Wikipedia under an Attribution-ShareAlike Creative Commons License.

1 objects

BETTY

Organization

1 objects

Camille Billops

Individual

Related

Camille Josephine Billops was an African-American sculptor, filmmaker, archivist, printmaker, and educator. This biography is from Wikipedia under an Attribution-ShareAlike Creative Commons License.

1 objects

Donna Binder

Individual

Donna Binder is a photojournalist and entrepreneur with over 25 years of experience in creating, distributing, and fundraising for social justice and cultural projects. As a founding member and co-director of Impact Visuals, the cooperative photo agency, from 1986 – 1999, she managed 130 photographers worldwide and secured assignments, projects, and funds for social documentary photography.

4 objects

Caroline Bird

Individual

6 objects

Marlene Bloomer

Individual

1 objects

Taylor Bluestine

Individual