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Guide to the California Institute of the Arts Feminist Art Materials Collection
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Series 1.   Administrative Records, 1972-1986,

Physical Description: .2 cubic foot

Scope and Content Note

This series contains documents related to the administration of the feminist arts programs at CalArts and includes correspondence, invoices, and other materials. Financial documents refer mostly to the sale of publications by the Feminist Art Program (FAP).
Files are arranged alphabetically by title, and chronologically within each folder.
Box 1:1

Board of Equalization, 1978-1980

Box 1:2

Correspondence, 1972-1974

Box 1:3

Invoice Book, 1977, 1984

Box 1:4

Invoice Forms, undated

Box 1:5-1:9

Invoices and Orders, 1976-1977, 1981-1986

Box 1:10

Payment Request Forms, undated

 

Series 2.   Events, 1972-1975, 1988, 2007,

Physical Description: .3 cubic foot

Scope and Content Note

This series contains information about events related to feminist art. Some events were held at CalArts while others took place off-campus, but involved participants from CalArts programs. Documents include announcements, brochures, exhibition catalogs, invitations, and photographic materials promoting feminist art activities, programs, and projects.
Files are arranged alphabetically by title, and chronologically within each folder.
Box 1:11

"Ablutions", 1972

Box 1:12

"Exquisite Acts and Everyday Rebellions", 2007

Box 1:13

"Faculty Art Show", 1973

Box 1:14-1:15

"Feminist Art Workshop", 1998

Box 1:16

"Festival of the Arts", 1974

Box 1:17

"It’s All About Time Past", 1975

Box 1:18

"Joyce Kozlaff Paintings", 1974

Box 1:19

"Old Mistresses: Women Artists of the Past", 1972

Box 1:20

"Robin Mitchell: Paintings and Drawings", undated

Box 1:21

"West Coast Feminist Speakers Bureau", undated

Box 1:22

"Womanhouse", 1972

 

Series 3.   Publications, 1971-2007,

Physical Description: 1.4 cubic feet

Scope and Content Note

This series contains publications related to feminist art. Some publications were created by CalArts while others were published by outside publishers.
 

Subseries 3-1.   CalArts Publications, 1971-2007,

Physical Description: .6 cubic foot

Scope and Content Note

This subseries contains articles, exhibition catalogs, newsletters, and other materials created by CalArts. Many of the publications sold by the Feminist Art Program (FAP) are included in this subseries.
Files are arranged alphabetically by title, and chronologically within each folder.
Box 2:1

Alt, [circa 1989]

Box 2:2

Anonymous Was A Woman, 1974

Box 2:3

Art: A Woman’s Sensibility, 1975

Box 2:4

The Big News, Articles, 1972-1973

Box 2:5

The Box, 1971

Box 2:6

The Bridge, "Feminist Art Festival, May 27-31", 1974

Box 2:7

Broadsheet 1, undated

Box 2:8

CalArts, "The CalArts Program that Transformed Feminist Art", 2007

Box 2:9

Cal Arts Today, "Shattering the Glass Slipper", 1982

Box 2:10

Exhibition, 1981

Box 2:11-2:12

Exhibition Space, 1995

Box 2:13

Lilly/Walt, undated

Box 2:14

Networks 1, "Women’s Design Program", 1972

Box 2:15

Publications Sheet, undated

Box 2:16

Register of Women Artists, 1973

Box 3:1

The Shrine, The Computer, and The Dollhouse, 1975

Box 3:2

Walt, "Feminism at CalArts: The Ideal Persists", 1983

Box 3:3

West Coast Women Artists’ Conference, 1972

Box 3:4

Womanhouse, 1972

 

Subseries 3-2.   Non-CalArts Publications, 1971-1978,

Physical Description: .4 cubic foot

Scope and Content Note

This subseries contains articles, books, brochures, and magazines that focus on, or make reference to feminist art, but were not published by Cal Arts. This subseries offers insight into various aspects of feminist art from a non-CalArts perspective.
Box 3:5

Art Journal, "The Education of Women as Artists: Project Womanhouse", 1972

Box 3:6

By Our Own Hands, 1977

Box 3:7

The Creative Woman, 1978

Box 3:8

Daily Pilot, "Should Women’s Art Be Neuter or Female", 1974

Box 3:9

Films By Women, 1975

Box 3:10

Evening Outlook, "Womanhouse: A First", undated

Box 3:11

Everywoman, 1971-1972

Box 3:12

Icographic, "The Women’s Design Program", 1973

Box 3:13

Los Angeles Times, "Lair of Female Creativity", 1972

Box 3:14

Los Angeles Times View, "Emergence of the Feminist Artist", 1972

Box 3:15

New Day: Films About Women and Men, undated

Box 3:16

New York Times, "Winning the West", undated

Box 3:17

New Woman, "An Interview With Two Artists From Womanhouse", 1972

Box 3:18

New York, "Vaginal Iconology", undated

Box 3:19

Time, "Bad-Dream House", 1972

Box 3:20

WARM: Women’s Art Registry of Minnesota, 1974

Box 3:21

W.E.B., 1972

Box 3:22

Woman’s Work: American Art, 1974, 1974

Box 3:23

Women In American History: Lectures and Videotapes, 1974

Box 3:24

Women’s History Research Center, Inc., [circa 1974]

 

Series 4.   Oversize Materials, 1971,

Physical Description: .4 cubic foot

Scope and Content Note

This series consists of oversize material that was removed from the collection and filed separately in an oversize box. Oversize material is located in box 4.