Links Last Updated : March 2009
A list of women’s visual arts organisations, addresses and a brief
description of their activities, where known.
To offer information to update, add to or correct this list, please
contact k.deepwell@ukonline.co.uk
Archiv des Vereins der Berliner Kunstlerinnen, http://www.archiv-vdbk.de/gesch.html
Dorotheenstraße 90, 2. Hof, Mitte, 10117 Berlin, Germany. Tel: +49
30 69409124
E-Mail: info@archiv-vdbk.de
Extensive archives of documentation, photography and press clippings on
women artists from Berlin since 1867, arising from the Berlin
Women Artists Association (Verein der Berliner Kunstlerinnen) and the
exhibition research for Profession Ohne Tradition
(Martin-Gropius-Bau, 1992). Access by prior appointment only: in the
process of being relocated as Martin Gropius-Bau is redeveloped.
Asia Women and Art Collective (AWAC Network) c/o Hidane Kobo,
4-16-2 Sakuragaoka, Setagay-ku, Tokyo, Japan 156.
Founded in 1994, this group have organised seminars in Japan and the
publication Visions, a newsletter in Japanese and a one-off
edition in english, Visions International (March 1996) to promote
feminist perspectives in Japan.
Asian
American Women Artists Association,
1890 Bryant Street, Suite 302, San Francisco, CA
94110, USA. http://www.aawaaart.com/:
Association of Austrian Women Artists – VBKO, see VBKO below.
Bildwechsel/Kunstlerinnenarchiv Hamburg. Kirchenallee 25 D-20099
Hamburg, Germany. Tel: +49 (0)40 24 63 84. Fax: +49 (0)40 24 68 56.
Email: bildwechsel@w4w.net ;
info@bildwechsel.org This extensive and valuable archive now also houses material from the
Frauenkulturhaus Frankfurt which no longer exists.
For more about Bildwechsel
and their cultural programmes look at their web-pages
http://www.bildwechsel.org
Cinenova, 40 Roseberry Avenue, London, EC1R 4RX Tel.. Email: admin@cinenova.demon.co.uk
Website: www.cinenova.org.uk
Cinenova is Britain's only women's film and distribution agency, a
non-profit company, founded in 1991. Films & Videos directed by women
can be hired from them under license in VHS and U-matic formats. They
publish a catalogue of the films in stock. The collection is UK centred
with selected works from US, Australia, Netherlands and elsewhere also
available.
City of Women, Slovenia City
of Women, Slovenia. Ursula
Cetinski/Koen Van Daele, City of Women, New Address : Association
for the Promotion of Women in Culture - City of Women, Kersnikova 4, 1000
Ljubljana, Slovenia tel:
+386.1.438.15. Email: mesto.zensk@guest.arnes.si.
The Association for the Promotion of Women in Culture - CITY OF WOMEN -
has held an annual international festival since 1995. Their internet site
is: City of Women, Slovenia
Please refer to website for information on the festivals of City of Women
from 1997-2009 (1st-15th Festivals).
Das Verborgene Museum, Schluterstrasse 70, 1000 Berlin 12,
Germany. http://www.dasverborgenemuseum.de/
The Hidden Museum was founded in 1984 and organises exhibitions of
contemporary and historical exhibitions, but particularly specialising in
exploring the work of women artists in Berlin of the 1920s and 1930s. The
Museum has conducted unique research into the work of women artists held
by museums in Berlin in a landmark exhibition in 1987 Das Verborgene
Museum- Dokumentation der Kunst von Frauen in Berliner offentlichen
Sammlungen (Berlin 1987).
Electra, Women’s Art Center, Savska 1, Zagreb, Croatia.
Tel. (00 385) 1 446 606. Email director, Sanja Ivekovic:
sanjaivekovic@yahoo.com
Established in 1995, as a documentation and information centre on women
artists, it is the first in Croatia and is linked to the Center for
Women's Studies in Zagreb. It aims to hold cultural and educational events
and to provide a centre for access and equipment for work in the new media
in its studio. The first public event in March 1997 was called Women's
Rooms. Electra were also organisers of the conference Co-operation:
an International Forum on Feminist Art Practice and Theory held in
Dubrovnik in September 2000.
Femina Potens is a non profit arts organization, located in San Francisco California, dedicated to promoting women and transgendered artists. We host rock shows,women made porn nites,film screenings,spoken word,workshops,theater, and art openings. Femina Potens, 2199 Market Street, San Francisco, CA 94114, USA. Tel / fax 415-864-1558 http://www.feminapotens.com email: feminapotens@gmail.com
Foundation for Women’s Art, UK, 55-63 Goswell Road, London, EC1V 7EN Tel: 020 7251 4881 Email: admin@fwa-uk.org, http://www.fwa-uk.org
Frauen Museum, Im Krausfeld 10, 53111 Bonn, Germany Tel:
+49 (0)228 69 13 44, Fax: +49 (0) 228 69 61 64 Email: frauenmuseum@bonn-online.com
Frauen Museum organises and hosts exhibitions in its premises. Since
1981, the organisation has organised over 100 exhibitions on women’s
art. The Museum has an extensive and developing archive on women’s
activities in the visual arts as well as files on over 3,000 women artists
from around the world. The Museum also runs educational programmes with
women’s educational workshops, lectures, theatrical and musical
performances and houses several artists’studios. The Frauen Museum
also organises the Gabriele Münter Prize an annual competition for
women artists for 40,000 DM.
For more information: visit the Frauen Museum website
http://www.frauenmuseum.de/
FIFTITU % - Vernetzungsstelle für Frauen in Kunst und Kultur -
Harrachstraße 28 - 4020 Linz - Tel.++43/732/770353 Email:
fiftitu@servus.atWebsite:
http://www.fiftitu.at Group
organising discussions in art and culture in Linz.
Details of events at websites: http://www.frauenkultur.at
and http://www.kuenstlerinnen.at
FRAZ (Frauenzeitung). Mattengasse 27, Postfach 8031 Zürich, Tel:
044 272 73 71, Fax: 044 272 81 61. Email: info@frauenzeitung.ch.
Die FRAZ ist eine feministische
Zeitschrift, die von einer Frauenredaktion nebenberuflich hergestellt und
herausgegeben wird. Die Zeitschrift erscheint vierteljährlich mit
einem thematischen Schwerpunkt, einem Nebenthema und den wiederkehrenden
Rubriken. A feminist journal published in German from Switzerland.
Internet Site: http://www.frauenzeitung.ch/
Glasgow Women's Library 2nd Floor, 81 Parnie Street, Glasgow, G1
5RH, Scotland
Glasgow Women's Library developed out of the work of Women in Profile, a
Glasgow-based women's organisation with a visual arts agenda, which began
in the late 1980s. The library houses The Lesbian Archive and Information
Centre, formally in London, and offers to subscribers a valuable newspaper
cuttings service on many subjects from Scotland. The library has also
established 'Women at Work' a women's skills,service and business index.
Files can also be found on Scottish Women Artists.
Internet Site : www.womenslibrary.org.uk
Schweizerische Gesellschaft Bildender Künstlerinnen, SGBK Switzerland.
Zentralsekretariat SGBK,Reidholzstrasse 19, 8805 Richterswil,Switzerland Tel:
044 687 11 41, Fax: 044 687 11 40. Email: info@sgbk.ch
Website: http://www.sgbk.ch/
Formerly known as GSBK (Gesellschaft Schweizerischer
Bildender Künstlerinnen) and the SSPSD. Founded as GSMB in 1902, the Swiss Society of Women Painters and
Sculptors organises exhibitions of member’s work in Switzerland and
abroad. It has long established regional sections in Switzerlands major
cities and regional, cantonal and federal representatives.
From 1987, it
has published thrice-yearly newsletter on its member’s activities.
IMAN, Muslimah Women Artists Network Established by Nora Hammoude and Safiya Godlas, a network and online member's gallery, based in the USA, bringing together muslim women artists from around the world. Internet Site: IMAN
KIK Kulturel Information & Koordination , Global Network for
Art and Culture http://www.kik-kultur.dk/
c/o Annelise Hansen, Copenhagen, Denmark.
Kik is a United Nations NGO (non-governmental organisations) which
lobbies for art and culture. Kik’s archives from the United Nations
Women’s Conference in Copenhagen in 1980 are now stored at the
Women's Museum in Denmark (see below).
Kunstlerinnen projekt, Goldrausch Frauennetzwerk, Berlin http://www.goldrausch-kuenstlerinnen.de
This is an 11-month educational/residency programme for women artists
professional development in Berlin.
It is funded by the women's foundation, Goldrausch e.v., http://www.goldrausch-ev.de/english.html,
Dircksenstr. 47, 10178 Berlin, Tel: +49 (0)30 283 34 80, Fax: +49
(0)30283 27 77
as part of their funding initiatives of micro-credit and professional
development schemes for women artists.
La Centrale, 4296 Boulevard
Saint-Laurent, Montreal, Quebec, H2W 1Z3 Canada. Tel.+1 (514) 871 0268
Fax: +1 (514) 871 9830
Internet Site: La Centrale website
Email: galerie@lacentrale.org
A women’s gallery started in 1973, as Galerie Powerhouse. The
gallery has documentation of its own work since 1973, organising
exhibitions, performances and events by women artists. A summary of its
history can be found in the exhibition catalogue Instabili: La Question du
sujet/ The Question of Subject (La Centrale,1990).
LindArt: Cultural Center for Women Artists, Tirana, Albania.
Internet site: http://www.lindart.org
Cultural Center Lindart, Rr: "Kajo Karafili",
nr 54, Tiranë, Albania. E-mail: culturalcentrelindart@yahoo.com
Tel/Fax:+355 4 257475
Tel:+355 4 248189 Mobile:+355 692190505. Organises exhibitions of women artists and occasional seminars -
initially focused on women artists in Albania and the Balkans.
Mentoring Artists for Women’s Art Inc. (MAWA), 2611 Main
Street,Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
R3B 1E1. Tel. +1 204 949 9490. Fax +1 204 956 4185. Internet Site:
http://www.mawa.ca/index.php Email:
info@mawa.ca
A unique scheme, providing and faciliating mentoring for young women
artists in Canada. The group also organises projects and women’s
events.
Native Women’s Resource Centre: 191
Gerrard St. East, Toronto, M5A 2E5, Canada.
Tel.+1 (416)
963-9963.
Fax: +1 (416)
963-9573 Email: jtaylor@nativewomenscentre.org
http://www.nativewomenscentre.org/home.html
An association and resource centre for First Nations women in Canada. The
centre publishes an annual magazine on the activities of First Nations
women.
National Museum for Women in the Arts, 1250 New York Avenue, NW
Washington DC2000,USA.
A unique permanent collection of works by women
artists from the 16th century to the present day, coupled with a temporary
exhibition space, which has organised some major and varied exhibitions of
women’s work from around the world.
Internet Site : National Museum of Women
in the Arts,Washington DC
NONA Multimedia Women's Centre, Park Ribnjak 1, 10000, Zagreb,
Croatia Tel/Fax (+385) (1) 275048. Old Nona
website is not working,
see also: www.videodocument.org/nona/
An
important centre for women's media and projects in Zagreb, organised
discussions and workshops, exhibitions and events since the early 1990s.
Senwati Gallery (Women Artists Gallery), Jalan Sriwedari 2B,
Banjar Taman, Ubud, Gianyar, Bali, Indonesia. Tel: Fax: +62-361
975485 Email:seniwati@dps.centrin.net.id
http://www.seniwatigallery.com/
A Women Artists Gallery based in Bali and specialising in Indonesian
women artists work. Produces publications, a calendar and catalogues of
its artists.
Sudanese Women Artists Association - a non-profit non-political
association, created by a group of young women artists in 2000, located in
Khartoum Sudan. SWAA Goals: to encourage and support women artists to
increase their artistic activities and have more constructive role, to be
considered as an active group among the art movement in Sudan. To serve as
a forum for dialogue between artists and the community, in order to help
develop public awareness and recognition of Sudan art and culture. Give
the public a chance to observe artists at work or exhibit in more
accessible places to the average person so that they can appreciate art
better. Communicate with associations or organizations with similar goals,
in order to observe their experiences and exchange information. Organize
trips around the Sudan, travelling exhibitions (art classes for children
and women, workshops, lectures) and help reserve and document the local
cultures at every region we visit. Participate in humanitarian issues, by
organizing workshops and exhibit artwork that represents our opinion. SWAA
accomplishments: May 2001, exhibition and workshop for children at El
damazin town (Blue Nile), and workshop for children at El rusiris town
(Blue Nile). 2001, exhibition at the Opera House (Hanagr Hall), Cairo,
Egypt. 2001, exhibition at the Faculty of Arts Khartoum University,
Khartoum, Sudan. January 2001, discussion at the Sudanese and German
Cultural society. December 2000, discussion at the National council for
Art and letters, subject "The Contemporary Art, Experience in the
Sudan". July 2000 the SWAA arranged its first exhibition with 30
women artists as participants, at the Hilton Hotel, Khartoum, Sudan. 2000,
The Sudan Artists Union "Role and duties" Seminar, the SWAA
participated with a paper entitled "The Associate Role". The
Sudanese Artists Union convention elected four members of the SWAA as
members in the 21 council of the union.
Attn: Sudanese Women Artists Association, Nile Reflection Company Ltd.,
P.O.Box 11829, Khartoum 11111, Sudan. Website: http://swaa.freeservers.com/aboutus.htm
Secretary General: Teyseer Abdelgadir Salim/Secretary
Ganeral teyseer2001@yahoo.com
SVBK (see entry for AXIS above)
SVBK's archives on women artists, collected between 1987-1992, and former
records of work are now at IIAV,(International Information Centre and
Archives for the Women’s Movement) Obiplein 4, 1094 rb Amsterdam.
Tel. (00 31) 20 6654780. Fax (00 31) 20 6655812
See also IIAV internet site on their collection and the
KNOWHOW listing on : IIAV's site
VBKÖ – Vereinigung Bildender Künstlerinnen Österreich / Austrian Association of Women Artists was established in 1910 ‘to better the economic and artistic circumstances of women artists’ and played a key role in first wave feminism in Austria. In the past years, aside from the ongoing provision of studio spaces to women artists and the mounting of a number of artist-projects, the main activity of the VBKÖ has been the creation of its own archive. Contact: Rudolfine Lackner, Maysedergasse 2 (4. Stock), 1010 Vienna, Austria Tel/Fax: +43-1- 513 64 73 Email: vbkoe@vbkoe.org Website: http://www.vbkoe.org
Video Medeja , P.O. Box 137, 21101 Novi Sad, Serbia. Website:
http://videomedeja.org/en/ Tel: +381
641900452
Video Art Association Videomedeja is producer and organizer of the festival
Videomedeja. It is an independent, non-governmental, non-profitable and
non-partisan association of citizens established in Novi Sad, Serbia in 1996
with basic goal to enhance independent video production and promotion of
video art and new artistic practice. Our basic activities are organization
of the annual festival and production of video works. Between 1996-2005, it
was directed by Vera Kopicl who did much to promote women's media projects,
especially from Eastern Europe in the festival.
Woman Made Gallery, 685 North Milwaukee Ave.Chicago,
Illinois 60642, USA.Tel: +1 312-738-0400 Fax: +1 312-738-0404 Email:
gallery@womanmade.org
Beate C. Minkovski, co-founder and executive director. Woman Made
Gallery is a Chicago not-for-profit organization since 1992 which offers
workshops, lectures, publish quarterly newsletters and maintain a slide
registry, video library and a website all with the same goal: to serve
women artists and to inform the public about women's artistic and cultural
contributions.Woman Made Gallery www.womanmade.org.
Also run an online registry for women artists www.womanmade.net
Womanifesto an annual women artist’s workshop project in Thailand since mid-1990s. Website: http://www.womanifesto.com
Women’s Art Library/ Make (closed October 2002). http://www.goldsmiths.ac.uk/make/ Now located as an archive in The Library, Goldsmiths' College, New Cross, London SE14 6NW. Women’s Art Library was a public resource and information centre in the UK on women artists past and present, national and international, which was established in 1981. It was a registered educational charity until October 2002. Its extensive collection of 35mm slides, documentation, books, catalogues and archives on the work of women artists is now part of the Library, Goldsmiths' College, University of London with limited access. WAL published Make (also finished mid-2002), formerly known as Women’s Art Magazine (before 1996) and before that as the Women Artists Slide Library Journal.
Women’s Art Resource Centre, Canada. Address: 401 Richmond Street West. Suite 122. Toronto, Ontario M5V 3A8. Canada Tel.(+1) 416 977 0097 Internet Site: http://www.warc.net Email: warc@warc.net WARC is an artist-run, charitable non-profit organization, founded in 1984. WARC has a collection of files of slides, catalogues and documentation of Canadian women artists, used by curators, educators and students. WARC Gallery's is 1200 sq. ft. art open since 1998 and has eight exhibitions per year. Submission deadline for the gallery is March 31 annually. WARC publishes a printed newsletter, 3 issues/year. Matriart: A Visual Art Journal was published 1990-1998.
Women’s Art Register, Australia c/o Richmond Library, 415 Church St, Richmond, Vic. 3121, Australia see extensive internet site of archives and activities and newsletter: http://www.womensartregister.org/
Women’s Caucus for Arts, WCA National Office,
Address :- P.O.Box 1498, Canal Street Station, New York, NY 10013
Tel. (+1) 212 634
0007 Email: info@nationalwca.com Internet site: Women's
Caucus for Art
The
largest national, multi-disciplinary organisation for women in the visual
arts, a United Nations, non-governmental organisation. The WCA hold an
annual conference, usually in conjunction with the College Art
Association, and publishes a quarterly newsletter. The WCA has separate
chapters in many US states and cities, who organise their own programme of
activities, exhibitions and conferences. The WCA also publishes research
guides and documents for sale.
Women’s Museum in Denmark / Kvindemuseet i Danmark,
Domkirkepladsen 5, 8000 Arhus C, Denmark. Tel.+45 86 18 64 70 E-mail:
info@kvindemuseet.dk
website: http://www.kvindemuseet.dk/uk.aspx
The Women’s Museum in Denmark holds several exhibitions a year about
women’s lives and women's culture in Denmark on a wide range of
subjects. The Museum houses the KiK (Kunst I Kultur) archives comprising
documentation from the Women’s Festival in Copenhagen in 1980. It
also has a collection of works from the Danish Women Artists’
Association and has held an exhibition of the associations’ members
work.
Women Painters of Washington http://www.womenpainters.com/ is an association of professional artists from throughout the state of Washington, USA. On October 6, 1930, the founding members joined forces to overcome the limitations they faced as women artists and to realize their artistic potential. The group meets monthly, generally at the Seattle Art Museum. Juried exhibitions are held annually throughout the state. A 75th anniversary exhibit was held April, 2005 at the Whatcom County Museum of Art and History in Bellingham, WA.
Women’s
Studio Workshop PO
Box 489, Rosendale, NY 12472
Tel +1 845.658.9133 Email: info@wsworkshop.org
Website: www.wsworkshop.org
Zambia National Women Artists Documentation Project (any update on
this organisation would be welcomed)
Last known contact: (Catherine
Chanda Katongola) P.O. Box 30844, Lusaka, Zambia. Tel (+260) 1 255 046 Fax
(+260) 1 253 007 E-mail zacci@zamnet.zm
For a great list of archives and libraries on women and the women's
movement: go to the Ariadne project of the Osterriechische
Nationalbibliothek (Austrian National Library).
http://www.onb.ac.at/ariadne/frauennetzwerke.htm
Ariadne is based at Josefsplatz 1, A-1015 Vienna, Austria.
Centre for Information om Kvinde og Konsforskning (Danish Center for Information on Women and Gender) KVINFO Chr. Brygge 3, 1219 Copenhagen K., Denmark Tel.:+45 33 13 50 88, Fax:+45 33 14 11 56 http://www.kvinfo.dk/
Germany
Women’s Organisations with Cultural Mandates in Germany:
Internationaal Informatiecentrum en Archief voor de Vrowenbeweging, (IIAV) Obiplein 4, 1094 rb Amsterdam,Netherlands www.iiav.nl
Luxembourg
CID-Femmes, Frauenbibliothek/Bibliotheque des Femmes, 14 rue Beck, 2. Stock, L-1222 Luxemburg http://www.cid-femmes.lu/
UK
The Women's Library, formerly The Fawcett Library, and the largest/oldest
feminist library in the UK
The Women's Library, London Metropolitan University, 25 Old Castle
Street, London E1 7NT
Tel: +44 (0)20 7320 2222 Fax: +44 (0)20 7320 2333 http://www.londonmet.ac.uk/thewomenslibrary/