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1984

ORGANIZATION MILESTONES

Third Annual Vesta Awards

KEY STAFF

Cheri Gaulke, Terry Wolverton, Anne Gauldin
WGC Staff: Anne Gauldin, Judith Lausten, Sue Maberry, Linda Nishio, Linda Preuss, Jane Thurmond
Board of Directors: Margaret Boegeman, Annette Colfax, Sheila de Bretteville, Barbara Dorf, Ena Dubnoff, Hermine Harman, Eloise Klein Healy, Leia Diana Giovanne-Smith, Bia Lowe, Sue Maberry, Gloria Orenstein, Linda Preuss, Hye Sook, Terry Wolverton, Mitsuye Yamada, Vicki Yerman

AFFILIATED GROUPS

Women’s Graphics Center
WGC Typesetting and Design
Woman’s Building Slide Library

VESTA AWARD WINNERS

Linda Frye Burnham, Susanna Dakin, Jacqueline de Angelis, Sue Fink, April Greiman, Vida Hackman, Michele Kort, Lili Lakich, Dr. Samella Lewis, Lynn Littman, Susan Albert Loewenberg, Aleida Rodríguez, Lisa Specht, Ruth Weisberg

EXHIBITIONS

“Minna Agins,” prints inspired by the poems of Meridel Le Seuer (January)
“1984: Big Brother is Watching” (4/1)
“Love Novellas,” installation by Jerri Allyn (4/1)
“Artists Books and Postcards,” juried by Frances Butler and Susan E. King (April)
“From Mistory to Action,” juried by Lucy R. Lippard (5/18)
“Laura Mauer, Lynda Frese: Photographs” (7/4-28)
“Public Exposures/Private Disclosures: Rebecca Hendrick” (7/4–28)
“Scavenger Xerox: A Radical Debut: Robin Price” (8/5–28)
“Gail Roberts, Kari Hildebrand: Paintings” (9/1)
“Multi-Media Group Show: Laurie Goldman, Carol Prier, Sharon Siskin” (10/1)
“Remembrance of Structures Past: Laurie Goldman, Carol Prier, Sharon Siskin, Joann Giordano” (10/1–26)
“Lois Swirnoff: Paintings” (10/30)
”Paintings by Lois Swirnoff” (10/30)
“Korean Women Artists,” curated by Hye Sook with Younhee Chung Paik, Hyn Sook Cho, Jin Sook Yoo, June Lew, In K. Chaing, Sunhee Joo (11/9)

PERFORMANCES

Funk Lessons, by Adrian Piper (3/3)
Tall Wheat, by Susan Banyas (8/3-4)
Voices, by Marion Hassinger; Running Dog/Paper Tiger, by May Sun (10/27)
Danceworks, by Gilberte Meunier (12/7)

FILM AND VIDEO ART

Barbara Hammer presents films (1/28)
Award-winning films by Allie Light (11/3)

GRAPHICS

Tea and publication party for bookworks and postcards of twenty-five artists-in-residence at the WGC (4/15)
Artists’ Book Day, Bruce Schandel, Susan King, Barbara Pascal (10/13)
WGC Annual Holiday Show and Sale (12/10)

LITERARY EVENTS

Eileen Myles, Amy Gerstler read poetry (6/16)

EXTENSION PROGRAM

Creative Bookstructures/Boxstructures, Catherine LeCleire (1/18)
Letterpress I and II, Susan King (1/21)
Letterpress for Children and Adults, Bonnie Thompson Norman (3/3)
Paste-Ups: The Basics, Lee Scott (3/7, 6/20)
Adhesives, Bruce Scanbel (3/31)
Artworks on the Offset Press, Dorthea Atwater (4/7)
Desert Environments of the Southwest: A Women’s Perspective, Florence McAlary (4/13)
Book Structures, Susan King (4/14)
Wilderness Experience for Women, Florence McAlary, Mitsuye Yamada (5/4)
Graphic Production: The Basics, Lee Scott (5/19, 11/17)
Lectures on Jewish Women (begins 6/1)
Women in Jewish History, Things You Never Learned in Sunday School (6/1)
A Tradition of Rebellion, Jewish Women in the Progressive Movements (6/8)
Women in the Holocaust and Resistance (6/15)
A Lesbian/Feminist Tour of Paris, Karla Jay (6/9)
Offset Projects Workshop, Cynthia Marsh (6/18)
Stretch Clinic, Karen Holden (6/23, 11/17)
Experimenting on the Letterpress, Susan King (6/30)
Book Structures for Artists, Bruce Schnabel (7/7–8, 7/14–15)
An Introduction to Performance, Maren Hassinger (8/4)
Offset Holiday Cards Workshop, Carol Chen (10/2)
Celebrate the Dark! Send Winter Solstice Greetings Workshop, Cheri Gaulke, Susan Gitlin-Emmer, Sue Maberry (10/10)
Printing for Children Workshop, Bonnie Thompson Norman (10/20)
Women and Creativity Workshop, Marilyn Barrett (10/20)
Women Work: A Writing Workshop, Terry Kennedy (10/20)
Pochoir: Applying Color with Stencils Workshop, Jaime Robles (10/27)
Phototypesetting: Ticket to Success, Anne Gauldin (10/27)

SOCIAL AND COMMUNITY EVENTS

Open House as part of Los Angeles Visual Arts Tour (6/9)
Artists Potluck Brunch (7/1)
Children’s Tour of WGC (7/13)
Artists Potluck Brunch (10/7, 11/4, 12/2)
Los Angeles Visual Arts Annual Arts Festival (10/10)

1985

ORGANIZATION MILESTONES

Fourth Annual Vesta Awards (10/20)

KEY STAFF

Cheri Gaulke, Terry Wolverton, Connie Hurston, Anne Gauldin
WGC Staff: Anne Gauldin, Judith Lausten, Sue Maberry, Linda Nishio, Linda Preuss, Jane Thurmond
Board of Directors: Margaret Byrd Boegeman, Betty Decter, Bella Dilworth, Esq., Sondra Hale, Hermine Harman, Jane Krensky, Mary Longo, Bia Lowe, Sue Maberry, Jean Avnet Morse, Janet Muff, Gloria Orenstein, Linda Preuss, Terry Wolverton, Vicki Yerman

AFFILIATED GROUPS

Women’s Graphics Center
WGC Typesetting and Design
Woman’s Building Slide Library

VESTA AWARD WINNERS

Eleanor Antin, Claire Falkenstein, Margarita Galban, Dolores Hayden, Eloise Klein Healy, MJ Hewitt, Susan E. King, Bella Lewitsky, Barbara Myerhoff, Inez Pedroza, Honorable Joy Picus, Maxine Waters, Peg Yorkin

WORKS ORIGINATED

Woman’s Building produces Putting Our Hands to Other Labor, documentary video about the women’s art movement in Southern California

EXHIBITIONS

“Cheri Gaulke, Deborah Kruger,” installations (1/4)
“Some of My Best Friends: Portraits of Lesbians by Nancy Rosenbaum” (1/7)
“Artists Book Show,” organized by Women’s Caucus for Arts (February)
“Black Women of History,” organized by the Smithsonian (February)
“Valentines by Artists” (2/7)
“Many Voices Many Visions,” part of Women’s Caucus for Arts (2/7)
“The Art of the Altar: Resources for Understanding Women’s Tradition,” Kay Turner (2/9)
“The Spirit of Black Women: Beverly Robinson, Iris Ambrose, Delores Nehemiah” (2/21)
“The Current Wave,” international poster show curated by Louise Kollenbaum (3/8)
“Women Photographers in America,” juried by Josine Ianco Starrels and Irene Borger (4/6)
“Private Places,” performance/installation by Vernita Nemec (5/8-22)
“The Machine in the Garden: ‘The Peaceable Kingdom Revisited,’” Marlene Alt (July)
“Breaking the Silence: Finding Our Voices,”Megan Williams, Morgan Thomas, Sheila Pinkel (7/12-8/30)
“The Last Luncheon,” Ellen Lampert (9/6)
“Privileged Information,” Barbara Kruger (10/2)
“Artist as Shaman,” Patricia Bulitt (11/15-26)
“From Darkness into Light” (12/6)
“Collaborations,” Lillian Elliott, Pat Hickman (date unknown)
“The Whale Concerts,” performance/installation by Liebe Gray (5/20-6/11)
“O bed! O bed! Delicious bed! That heaven on earth to the weary head” performance/installation by Anna Homler and Joyce Wexler-Ballard 96/18-7/2)

PERFORMANCES

“Private Places,” performance by Vernita Nemec (5/10-11)
“The Whale Concerts,” performance by Liebe Gray ((5/31, June 1)
“O bed! O bed! Delicious bed! That heaven on earth to the weary head” performance by Anna Homler and Joyce Wexler-Ballard (5/28-29)
Artist as Shaman–Rachel Rosenthal Performance (11/9)

LITERARY EVENTS

Women Writers Series:
Kate Braverman, Wanda Coleman (3/1)
Eloise Klein Healy (3/9)
Deena Metzger, Leah Reilly (4/12)
Marisela Norte, Lynn McGee (4/26)
Susan Anderson, Elaine Hall, Sylvia Rosen (5/17)
Jill Johnston (5/20)
“Family Identities,” a workshop with Jill Johnston (5/21)
Michelle T. Clinton, Sharon Stricker (6/7)

FILM AND VIDEO ART

Retrospective of the films of Maya Deren (1/19)
Screening of “Las Madres de Plaza de Mayo” (3/16)
Committed–A film by Lynn Tilman (10/12)

EXTENSION PROGRAM

Paste-Up: The Basics, Lee Scott (1/30)
One Side/Broadside Workshop, Susan King (2/2)
Salon: International Women’s Day, Renee Cote (3/7)
Paste-Up: Tricks, Hints and Shortcuts, Lee Scott (3/9)
Making Ritual, Joan Sutherland (3/23)
Stretch Clinic, Karen Holden (7/13)
Flex Your Writing Muscle, Terry Wolverton (7/13)
West Coast Women’s Salon: J.E.B. (8/1)
Offset Projects Workshop, Cynthia Marsh (8/13)
West Coast Women’s Salon: Gloria Orenstein (9/5)
Playing with Pattern, Jo Ann Giordano (9/6)
Paste-Up: The Basics, Lee Scott (9/11)
Salon: Women Artists in History (10/3)
Graphic Production, Lee Scott (10/19)
Day of the Dead Workshop, Linda Vallejo (10/21)
Invitations, Announcements and Cards, Bonnie Thompson Norman (11/2)
Writing and Rewriting, Terry Wolverton (11/6)
Eskimo Dance Workshop, Patricia Bulitt (11/25)
Salon: Ancient Goddesses and Feminine Energy (12/5)
Paste Paper Workshop, Bonnie Thompson Norman (12/7)
Typespacing and copy fitting, Lee Scott (12/14)
Typographic Tour of LA, Bonnie Thompson Norman (11/30)

SOCIAL AND COMMUNITY EVENTS

Artists Brunch, Dough Art (1/13)
Gallery Talk by Cheri Gaulke and Deborah Kruger (1/17)
Los Angeles Visual Arts (LAVA) Arts Festival (1/26)
Artists Brunch (2/10)
Reception for Women’s Caucus for Art’s “On A Roll” (2/10)
Women’s Caucus for Art Bus Tour to the Women’s Building (2/16)
Artists Brunch, Paste Paper (3/10)
Artists Brunch, Mask Making (10/13)
Artists Brunch, Silkscreening Holiday Cards (12/8)

1986

ORGANIZATION MILESTONES

Fifth Annual Vesta Awards (10/19)

KEY STAFF

Cheri Gaulke, Terry Wolverton, Linda Lyons, Elaine Wintman, Connie Hurston, Anne Gauldin
WGC Staff: Anne Gauldin, Judith Lausten, Sue Maberry, Linda Nishio, Linda Preuss, Jane Thurmond
Board of Directors: Margaret Byrd Boegeman, Betty Decter, Bella Dilworth, Esq., Michaelene Doyle, Julia Gibson, Sondra Hale, Hermine Harman, Joan Hugo, Jane Krensky, Mary Longo, Bia Lowe, Sue Maberry, Jean Avnet Morse, Janet Muff, Gloria Orenstein, Linda Preuss, Tina Treadwell, Terry Wolverton, Vicki Yerman

AFFILIATED GROUPS

Women’s Graphics Center
WGC Typesetting and Design
Woman’s Building Slide Library

VESTA AWARD WINNERS

Ray Eames, Cheri Gaulke, Elyse Grinstein, Ruth Hirschman, Meredith MacRae, Phranc, Lydia Takeshita, Ruth Waddy, Beatrice Wood, Carmen Zapata

WORKS ORIGINATED

“Cross Pollination” posters commissioned from Carol Chen, Nelvatha Dunbar, Amani Fliers, Anne Finger, Patricia Gaines, Diane Gamboa, Mary Bruns Gronenthal, Hyunsook Cho, Susan E. King, Cyndi Kahn and Michelle T. Clinton, Linda Nishio, Linda Lopez, Janau Noerdlinger, Suzan Ocona, Robin Price, May Sun, Mari Umekubo, Patssi Valdez and Sylvia H. Delgado, and Elfie Wikins-Nacht (5/22)

EXHIBITIONS

“Cross Pollination,” Women’s Graphic Center Commission Project posters exhibited at Los Angeles City Hall (4/16)
“Family Album” (3/27–5/29, 4/12)
“Gentlemen’s Choice” (8/22)
“Elizabeth Catlett and Nike Olanigi” (2/7)
Women’s History Month Exhibition at Los Angeles City Hall (3/1)
“Collaboration: Elliot/Hickman and Virginia Hoge” (7/11)
“When Beauty is Enough: Robin Ficara” (10/17)
“Textiles as Text: Hmong Exhibit” (12/7) View PDF

PERFORMANCES

Family Album: Evening of Poetry and Performance (4/12)
Performance Mania (11/1)

FILM AND VIDEO ART

Video Festival: Women Make Videos (dates unknown)
Putting Our Hands to Other Labor: The Women’s Art Movement in So. California (cable show) (10/15)

WOMEN’S GRAPHICS CENTER

Sheila de Bretteville Critique (2/11)

LITERARY

Women Writers Series:
Wendy Glenn, Michelle T. Clinton, Marisela Norte (4/19)
Alice Bloch, Jewell Rhodes (5/3)
Bia Lowe, Mary Helen Ponce, Mitsuye Yamada (5/31)
Reading: Barbara MacDonald and Cynthia Rich (10/18)
Spoken Word: Reading by Linda Albertano (10/25)
Black and White Encounters: A reading by Joanne Leedom-Ackermanand Sherley Anne Williams (11/15)

EXTENSION PROGRAM

Postcard Workshop, Cheri Gaulke (1/6, 4/7, 6/1)
Salon: Emma Goldman, Candance Falk (1/9)
Rubber Stamp Workshop, Bonnie Thompson Norman (1/18)
Women’s Studies, Sondra Hale, Bonnie Engdahl (2/1)
West Coast Women’s Salon: Black Female Artists from Mexico, Samella Lewis, Elizabeth Catlett (2/6)
Bookstructures Workshop, Susan King (2/22)
West Coast Women’s Salon: Sabia (3/6)
West Coast Women’s Salon: Dr. Barbara Polland, Prevention of Sexual Child Abuse (4/3)
At Home: Sunday Salon: The Changing Face of Women’s Work, Rusty Cantor (4/6)
Printing Made Easy, Bonnie Thompson (4/12, 10/25)
Liberating Our Voices: Creative Writing, Sharon Stricker (4/26)
West Coast Women’s Salon: Sherna Gluck; Mothers and Daughters: Personal Herstories (5/1)
At Home: Sunday Salon: Issues Facing Creative Women, Marilyn Barrett (5/4)
Think Big Workshop, Bonnie Thompson (5/17)
Tricks of the Trade Workshop, Lee Scott (5/24)
At Home: Sunday Salon: A Ton of Kimonos: Many Cultures, Old and New, Betty Decter (6/1)
West Coast Women’s Salon: Women’s Collective of Justiceville, Homelessness: Women on the Streets (6/5)
Women’s Studies, Some Contemporary Feminist Ideas, Sondra Hale, Bonnie Engdahl (7/5)
West Coast Women’s Salon: Collaboration in the Arts, Pat Hickman, Lillian Elliot (7/10)
West Coast Women’s Salon: Feminist Art in the Eighties, Kathi Norklun, Linda Burnham, Margarita Niete (7/31)
Papermaking: Simple and Fun Workshop, Bonnie Thompson Norman (9/13)
Drawing from the Dream Outward Workshop, Vijali (9/20)
Thursday Salon: The Tradition of the Salon, Sara Melzer (10/2)
Silkscreen for the Book Arts, Deborah Campbell (10/11)
Writing for Print, Nancy Jonhson (10/11)
Women Studies: Art and Ideas, Sondra Hale (10/11)
Thursday Salon: Drawing Back the Veil: Joan Sutherland, Linda Vallejo, Luisah Teish (11/6)
Ancestral Journey, Luisah Teish (11/8)
Creative Process and the Artist, Anna Reyner (11/8)
At Home: Sunday Salon: Limitations and Transcendance of the Women as Artist, Sharon Stricker (11/16)
Offset Press Workshop, Carol Chen (11/18)
At Home: Sunday Salon: Is Domestic Art, Art?, Gloria Kurec (12/7)

SOCIAL AND COMMUNITY EVENTS

Artists Brunch (1/12, 2/9, 3/9, 5/11)
Brunch: Suminigashi (4/13)
Brunch: Linoleum Workshop (6/8)
Reception for Postcard Project, Cheri Gaulke (8/22)
Open House (11/15)

1987

ORGANIZATION MILESTONES

Betty Ann Brown hosts an “Art Tour of Santa Fe” for Woman’s Building donors
Sixth Annual Vesta Awards (date unknown)

KEY STAFF

Cheri Gaulke, Terry Wolverton, Linda Huggins, Pat Cammack
WGC Staff: Anne Gauldin, Sue Maberry, Pam Ward
Board of Directors: Maria C. Angeletti, Esq., Dolo Brooking, Betty Ann Brown, H. Barbara Cutler, Ellen C. Geiger, Julia Gibson, Jennifer Jackson, Sondra Hale, Hermine Harman, Victoria Helton, Joan Hugo, Jane Krensky, Barbara McCullough, Mary Elizabeth Perry, Evie Rotblatt, Susan Saroff, Dixie Swift, Nancy Kay Turner, Jeri Waxenberg, Vicki Yerman

AFFILIATED GROUPS

Women’s Graphics Center
WGC Typesetting and Design
Woman’s Building Slide Library

VESTA AWARD WINNERS

Sheila Benson, Nancy Buchanan, Susan A. Grode, Brenda Levin, Victoria Ann Lewis, Helen Lundeberg, Esther McCoy, Nobuko Miyamoto, Holly Near, Didi Daniels Peters, Jane Wagner

WORKS ORIGINATED

Woman’s Building commissions artists to produce original videotapes and airs them on a monthly public access cable program, “The Woman’s Building Presents”

EXHIBITIONS

“Maureen Murdock: Photo Exhibition in Service of the Goddess” (1/20)
“Broken Heart Art” and “Black History” (2/9)
“Black Women Printmakers” (3/1)
“Women and Their Work,” at Los Angeles City Hall (3/4)
“The Postcard Project: Celebrating our Heroines” (3/23)
“Visionary Landscapes” (3/27)
“Viva La Vida: Homage to Frida” (5/5)
“Reflections on Survival: Rose Marie Prins, Nancy Baytos-Fenton, Alice Dubiel, Betsy Richardson, Nancy Buchanan” (7/3)
“The Postcard Project: Our Heroines,” Cheri Gaulke, Mari Umbekubo; “Sculpture Exhibit: Barbara Magnus, Marisa Alexander” (8/21)
“Earth Vision/Human Scale,” curated by Dinah Berland (10/16)
“Apsara: the Feminine in Cambodian Art” (12/6) View PDF

PERFORMANCES

Comedy Night, Leslie Belt, Pat Akers, The Love Machine (1/31)
“Natural History according to Liebe Gray” (6/16)

FILM AND VIDEO ART

Women’s Video Access (7/18, 8/1, 9/12)
Performance Artists Make Videos, Rachel Rosenthal, Terry Wolverton, Nancy Buchanan (8/14)
Putting Our Hands to Other Labor (9/6)
Cultural Heritage Month Videos, Aliel Larkin (10/2)
Miss Fluci Moses, Cable Show (10/4)
Cultural Heritage Month Videos (10/10)
Friday the 13th Videos (11/13)

LITERARY EVENTS

Mosaic Voice: Women Writers Series:
Kitty Tsui, Amy Uyematsu (4/4)
Beth Brant, Elaine Hall (4/11)
Cherrie Moraga, Helena Viramontes (4/25)
Jan Clausen, Cheny Holland (5/2)
Gloria Naylor, Michelle Clinton (at CSU Los Angeles) (5/7)
Tribute to May Sarton (at Immaculate Heart High School) (4/10)

EXTENSION PROGRAM

Variations of the Goddess Lecture Series, Renee Brown Coordinator (begins 1/8)
J. Lynne Boylan, Cheryl Purdue (1/8)
Miriam Robbins Dexter, Maureen Murdock (1/22)
Zena Pearlstone, Mikelle Smith-Omari (2/12)
Marla C. Berns, Meibao D. Nee (2/26)
Patricia Monaghan, Susan Gitlin-Emmer (3/12)
Joan Sutherland, Kathleen Forrest, Cheri Gaulke, Sue Maberry (3/26)
Hmong Textile Workshops (1/10)
At Home: Sunday Salon, Susan King (1/11)
Basketry Workshop, Rosalie Friis-Ross (1/17)
Vellum Binding, Griselda Warr (2/7)
,At Home: Sunday Salon, Eloise Klein Healy (2/15)
Creative Writing Workshop, Anne Finger (2/21, 11/1)
Feminist Studies Course, Sondra Hale (begins 2/28)
The History of Women and Music, Judy Gorman-Jacobs (3/6)
Creative Writing, Anne Finger (3/7)
Graphic Production: The Basics, Lee Scott (3/7)
Paste-Up Workshop, Lee Scott (3/14)
Women’s Studies: The Debates, Sondra Hale (3/14)
At Home: Sunday Salon, Diane Gamboa (3/15)
Letterpress Printing: From Beginning to End, Bonnie Thompson Norman (4/4)
Alter Image Weight Loss Doll-Making, Faith Ringgold (4/4)
Letterpress Printing (5/2)
The Postcard Project, Cheri Gaulke (5/2, 7/1, 8/1, 11/2)
Papel Picado, Olga Ponce Furginson (5/9)
Aerobic Printing, Carol Chen (6/6)
Mask Making: The Magical Art, Anna Reyner (6/13)
Paste-Up: The Basics, One Day Workshop with Joyce Dallal (7/25)
Basics of Graphic Production, Joyce Dallal (8/1)
Suminigashi, Bonnie Thompson Norman (8/15)
Papermaking, Patty Sue Jones (8/29)
Women Time: Create a Calendar (10/3)
Variations of the Goddess series:
(Event unknown) (10/6)
Fetish Making and Effigy Figures, Rosalie Friis-Ross (10/31)
Dianic Halloween: Reclaiming the Rape of Women: Ruth Barrett, Felicity Artemis Flowers (11/3)
The Cassandra Complex: Rejecting the Inner Prophetess, Sarah La Saulle; The Missing Link: Seeking the Dark Goddess, Nanci Shandera (11/17)
The Heart As Altar: Women, Meditation, and Desire, Joan Sutherland; Apsara: The Feminine in Cambodian Art, Amy Catlin (12/1)
Roles of Japanese Women: Has the Goddess of Mountains Transformed Herself Into the Goddess of High Technology?, Yoko Pusavant; The Goddess with the Silent T: Jessie Mae Chris(t), Crystal Clarity Bujol (12/15)
Journal Writing, Anne Finger (11/4)
Create A Calendar (11/7)
Poetry as a Creative Process, Karen Holden (11/9)
Forming Books, Sue Ann Robinson (11/21)
Workshop/Demonstration: Khmer Women’s Weaving, Phan It (12/5)
A Day of Decorating Papers, Bonnie Thompson Norman (12/12)

SOCIAL AND COMMUNITY EVENTS

Food is Art/Art is Food, Women’s Culinary Alliance and Women’s Building celebrate the achievements of Women (6/14)
Fringe Festival Workshop: Stamp Happy (9/4)
International Folk Art Sale (12/12)