Collection context
Summary
- Creators:
- Wolverton, Terry
- Abstract:
- Terry Wolverton, born in 1954, is a poet, writer, editor, teacher of writing, performance artist, and management consultant. She has also worked as a promoter of the arts, primarily at the Los Angeles Woman's Building, and served in management positions at the Woman's Building, a feminist non-profit arts and education center in Los Angeles. The collection consists of research material; teaching materials; letters and notes from her students; professional correspondence; notes, drafts, and manuscripts; publicity material, photographs, and reviews; and art collected, much connected to the Woman's Building.
- Extent:
- 50.8 Linear Feet (114 boxes, 2 flat boxes, 7 shoe boxes, 1 oversize folder)
- Language:
- English and Materials are in English.
- Preferred citation:
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[Identification of item], Terry Wolverton papers (Collection 445). UCLA Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library, University of California, Los Angeles.
Background
- Scope and content:
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The bulk of Terry Wolverton's papers pertain to her performance works and writings (performance and book reviews, poetry, interviews, non-fiction, memoir, fiction, and edited works), documented variously by research material, notes, drafts, manuscripts, publications, programs, correspondence, photographs, promotional materials such as posters and flyers, audio and video recordings, and post publication material such as reviews, notices, and some letters from readers. There are copies of many works published in periodicals. Wolverton's teaching of writing is extensively documented with notes for lectures, rosters, and samples of student work submitted. The collection also includes materials pertaining to the Woman's Building, including posters and works of art by women artists. The 2016 additions include material relating to Wolverton's career as a writer, consultant and teacher, involvement with the Woman's Building, and personal life.
- Biographical / historical:
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Terry Wolverton was born in Cape Canaveral, Florida on August 23, 1954. Wolverton is a performance artist, poet, writer, editor, teacher of writing, instructor of Kundalini yoga and meditation, and management consultant. She has been an activist for women's, lesbian, and gay causes. Her teaching has included developing classes for students who are HIV positive.
Wolverton studied at the University of Detroit (1972-1973), majoring in Psychology and Theater, the University of Toronto (1973-1974), and the Sagaris Institute, Lyndonville, Vermont (1975). She received her B.A. in Theater, Creative Writing and Women's Studies from Thomas Jefferson College, Allendale, Michigan (1978), with further study at the Los Angeles Woman's Building Feminist Studio Workshop (1976-1978). She worked as news writer, freelance copywriter, and publicist 1977-1980. She worked at the Woman's Building, a feminist non-profit arts and education center in Los Angeles, from 1977-1989 where she was development director 1984-1988 and executive director, 1988-1989. Beginning 1977 she has taught adult education classes at the Woman's Building, the Los Angeles Gay & Lesbian Center, Connexxus Women's Center, UCLA Extension, and California Institute of the Arts. Beginning 1982 she has been the president of ConsultHer, a management consulting firm. Beginning 1997 she has been the founder of and instructor at Writers at Work, a private creative writing center. She has served on the board of the Monette-Horwitz Trust Advisory Committee, 1998-2005.
Wolverton began her professional creative work as a performance artist, writing or collaborating on the texts and appearing in the performances. She has published numerous articles and reviews in both Los Angeles and national periodicals; books of poetry, fiction, and memoir; and has edited many anthologies of lesbian and gay poets and writers, some specifically of Los Angeles writers. S
Wolverton has edited 20 volumes, beginning 1990 with Harbinger: Poetry and Fiction by Los Angeles Writers, and including Blood Whispers: L.A. Writers on AIDS (1991), His: Brilliant New Fiction by Gay Writers (1995, 1997, 1999), Hers: Brilliant New Fiction by Lesbian Writers (1995, 1997, 1999), and Circa 2000: Gay Fiction at the Millennium (2000) and Circa 2000: Lesbian Fiction at the Millennium (2001).
Wolverton's books include Blue Moon (poetry and prose, 1977), she was cracking rocks with a hammer (poem, 1991), Black Slip (poetry, 1992), Bailey's Beads (novel (1996), Mystery Bruise (poetry, 1999), Greatest Hits: Terry Wolverton (poetry, 2001), Insurgent Muse: Life and Art at the Woman's Building (memoir, 2002), and Embers (novel in poems, 2003). Among her performance art scripts and texts are works from 1979 to the present, including In Silence Secrets Turn to Lies / Secrets Shared Become Sacred Truth (1979), the collaborative work An Oral Herstory of Lesbianism (1979), Me and My Shadow (1983), and Under Eden (2001).
- Acquisition information:
- Terry Wolverton; Gift; 2005, 2016.
- Processing information:
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Processed by Dan Luckenbill in 2005-2006, with data entry by Brooke Chappell.
Additions processed by Julie Park in 2017-2018 under the supervision of Courtney Dean.
- Arrangement:
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This collection has been arranged in the following series:
- Series 1: Biographical, 1970-2004
- Subseries 1.1: University education, 1970-1974
- Subseries 1.2: Activism, 1974-2000
- Subseries 1.3: Outreach activities, 1983-2001
- Subseries 1.4: Conferences, etc., 1984-2003
- Subseries 1.5: Award/Honors, 1986-2004
- Subseries 1.6: About Terry Wolverton, 1985-2002
- Series 2: Professional files, 1966-2001
- Subseries 2.1: Audio and video art, 1988-1997
- Subseries 2.2: Art interests, 1966-1999
- Subseries 2.3: Promotion, 1977-2001
- Subseries 2.4: Teaching, 1979-1997
- Series 3: Performances and writing, 1970-2004
- Subseries 3.1: Reviews, 1977-2000
- Subseries 3.2: Performance texts, 1979-1996
- Subseries 3.3: Nonfiction, 1970-2003
- Subseries 3.4: Performances, 1973-2003
- Subseries 3.5: Poetry, 1977-2003
- Subseries 3.6: Fiction , 1983-2000
- Subseries 3.7: Writings, 1979-2003
- Subseries 3.8: Editing, 1976-2001
- Subseries 3.9: Interviews, 1978-2004
- Series 4: Writings and artworks collected by Wolverton, 1976-1998
- Subseries 4.1: Women's art collected, 1976-1998
- Subseries 4.2: Women's writings collected, 1985
- Subseries 4.3: Collected audiovisual materials, 1981-1996
- Series 5: Additions, 1971-2015
- Subseries 5.1: Biographical, 1973-2009
- Subseries 5.2: Nonfiction writing, 1999-2008
- Subseries 5.3: Fiction writing, 1986-2011
- Subseries 5.4: Poetry writing and editing, 1994-2012
- Subseries 5.5: Performances and writing, 1983-2014
- Subseries 5.6: Consulting and teaching, 1979-2015
- Subseries 5.7: Woman's Building, 1971-2012
- Subseries 5.8: Digital and audiovisual material, circa 1990-2010
Collection is primarily ordered chronologically.
- Physical / technical requirements:
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COLLECTION CONTAINS AUDIOVISUAL MATERIALS: Audiovisual materials in this collection will require assessment and possible digitization for safe access. All requests to access special collections material must be made in advance using the request button located on this page.
COLLECTION CONTAINS DIGITAL MATERIALS: Special equipment or further processing may be required for viewing. All requests to access special collections materials must be made in advance using the request button located on this page.
- Physical location:
- Stored off-site. All requests to access special collections material must be made in advance using the request button located on this page.
- Rules or conventions:
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Access and use
- Restrictions:
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COLLECTION STORED OFF-SITE: Open for research. All requests to access special collections materials must be made in advance using the request button located on this page.
- Terms of access:
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Property rights to the physical objects belong to UCLA Library Special Collections. All other rights, including copyright, are retained by the creators and their heirs. It is the responsibility of the researcher to determine who holds the copyright and pursue the copyright owner or his or her heir for permission to publish where The UC Regents do not hold the copyright.
- Preferred citation:
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[Identification of item], Terry Wolverton papers (Collection 445). UCLA Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library, University of California, Los Angeles.
- Location of this collection:
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A1713 Charles E. Young Research LibraryBox 951575Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575, US
- Contact:
- (310) 825-4988