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Digital Feminist Archives, Barnard College

Repository

This archive offers a snapshot of feminist history in the 1960s and 1970s, the institutionalization of women’s centers and women’s studies as an academic discipline, and feminist struggles taking place at colleges and universities, in healthcare and social service centers, in political organizations and neighborhood meetings across the country.

The Archives of the Puerto Rican Diaspora, CUNY Hunter College

Repository

The Archives of the Puerto Rican Diaspora is the only archival repository in the United States committed to documenting the Puerto Rican communities living in the United States. The archives have over 300 collections of personal papers from prominent Puerto Ricans, including artists, elected officials, social activists, writers, and community-based organizations. There is an extraordinary amount of information regarding Puerto Rican migrants and the government institutions established to support them.

Heresies Collective

Organization

The Heresies Collective was founded in 1976 in New York City, by a group of feminist political artists. The group sought to, among other goals, examine art from a feminist and political perspective. In addition to a variety of actions and cultural output, the collective was responsible for the overseeing the publication of the journal Heresies: A feminist publican on art and politics, which was published from 1977 until 1993.

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Center for Curatorial Studies Archives, Bard College

Repository

The Archives serve as the institutional repository for the Center for Curatorial Studies and as a collecting repository which actively acquires, preserves, and provides access to a wide range of primary materials documenting the history of the contemporary visual arts and the institutions and practices of exhibition-making since the 1960s. The Archives are committed to collecting the physical and digital manifestations and documentary traces in their original formats, including archives and manuscripts, artifacts, books and publications, and other analog and digital media.

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.

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Special Collections, Bryn Mawr College

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Special Collections manages Bryn Mawr College’s holdings of rare books, manuscripts, art works, cultural artifacts, rock and mineral collection, and the College’s archives within the framework of the overall College mission. Special Collections promote teaching and learning with the collections through class visits, research project support, internships, public programs, and exhibitions.  

Plan C

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University Archives and Special Collections, California State University, Fullerton

Repository

Established in 1967, University Archives and Special Collections preserves and provides access to the library’s rarest and most valuable original materials, supports curriculum, and preserves the University’s history.

Nancy Callahan

Individual

Nancy Callahan is a visual artist who works in a variety of mediums. She is known for her screen prints, drawings and installations as well as her work in the field of artist's books. She has exhibited her work nationally and internationally and has taught well over a hundred workshops on innovative book structures. Her work is housed in many permanent collections throughout the United States and Europe.

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Debbie Gary Callier

Individual

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Lisa Cannistraci

Individual

Lisa Cannistraci is the owner of Henrietta Hudson, a queer and lesbian bar in New York City.

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Kitty Carlisle Hart

Individual

Kitty Carlisle Hart (born Catherine Conn) was an American stage and screen actress, opera singer, television personality and spokesperson for the arts. She was the leading lady in the Marx Brothers movie A Night at the Opera (1935) and was a regular panelist on the television game show To Tell The Truth (1956–1978). She served 20 years on the New York State Council on the Arts. In 1991, she received the National Medal of Arts from President George H. W. Bush. She was inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame in 1999. This biography is from Wikipedia under an Attribution-ShareAlike Creative Commons License.

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Cathy Carr

Individual

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Ann Carr

Individual

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Jeanne Carstensen

Individual

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Rosie Casals

Individual

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Kolleen Casey

Individual

Kolleen Casey Shields was a gymnast who competed for the United States in the 1976 Montreal Olympics. She finished 23rd in the vault, an event won by Nadia Comăneci. She was the 1975 U.S. national champion in vault. Shields competed for Southwest Missouri State University from 1977 to 1979, where she won the Honda Sports Award as the nation's top female gymnast in 1979. She transferred to the University of Minnesota, graduating with a degree in Physical Therapy. Shields became a physical therapist at the University of Iowa. This biography is from Wikipedia under an Attribution-ShareAlike Creative Commons License.

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Jackie Cassello

Individual

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CBS

Organization

CBS Broadcasting Inc., commonly shortened to CBS (an abbreviation of its original name, the Columbia Broadcasting System), is an American commercial broadcast television and radio network and the flagship property of the CBS Entertainment Group division of Paramount Skydance. It is one of Paramount Skydance's three flagship subsidiaries, along with Paramount Pictures and MTV. This biography is from Wikipedia under an Attribution-ShareAlike Creative Commons License.

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Whitney Chadwick

Individual

Whitney Chadwick is an American art historian and educator, who has published on contemporary art, modernism, Surrealism, and gender and sexuality. Her book Women, Art and Society was first published by Thames and Hudson in 1990 and revised in 1997; it is now in its fifth edition. Chadwick is Professor Emerita at San Francisco State University from the School of Art. This biography is from Wikipedia under an Attribution-ShareAlike Creative Commons License.

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Suzy Chaffee

Individual

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Artists Meeting for Cultural Change

Individual

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Tracy Chapman

Individual

Tracy Chapman is an American singer-songwriter, widely known for her hit singles "Fast Car" (1988) and "Give Me One Reason" (1995). She was signed to Elektra Records by Bob Krasnow in 1987. The following year she released her debut album, Tracy Chapman, which became a commercial success. The album received six Grammy Award nominations, including one for Album of the Year, three of which she won: Best New Artist, Best Female Pop Vocal Performance for her single "Fast Car", and Best Contemporary Folk Album. Chapman has since continued to release award-winning music. Chapman is politically and socially active. In a 2009 interview with National Public Radio, she said, "I'm approached by lots of organizations and lots of people who want me to support their various charitable efforts in some way. And I look at those requests and I basically try to do what I can. And I have certain interests of my own, generally an interest in human rights." This biography is from Wikipedia under an Attribution-ShareAlike Creative Commons License.

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Judy Chicago

Individual

Judy Chicago (born Judith Sylvia Cohen; July 20, 1939) is an American feminist artist, art educator, and writer known for her large collaborative art installation pieces about birth and creation images, which examine the role of women in history and culture.

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