From Site to Vision: the Woman’s Building in Contemporary Culture is published in conjunction with "Doin’ It in Public: Feminism and Art at the Woman’s Building" Oct 1-Jan. 28, 2012. Ordering information. (It was previously an e-book.)

Doin' It in Public: Feminism and Art at the Woman's Building comprises an exhibition, two scholarly publications, and series of public events that document, contextualize and pay tribute to the groundbreaking work of feminist artists and art cooperatives that were centered in and around the Los Angeles Woman's Building (downtown L.A.) in the 1970s and 1980s. Doin' It In Public is part of Pacific Standard Time: Art in LA 1945-1980, an unprecedented collaboration, initiated by the Getty, that brings together more than sixty cultural institutions from across Southern California for six months beginning October 2011 to tell the story of the birth of the L.A. art scene. Pacific Standard Time is an initiative of the Getty. The presenting sponsor is Bank of America.

Essays:

"Foreward" by Lucy R. Lippard

"Introduction" by Terry Wolverton

"Power and Space: Feminist Culture and the Los Angeles Woman’s Building: A Context" by Sondra Hale

"The Woman’s Building and Los Angeles’ Leading Role i n the Feminist Art Movement" by Laura Meyer

"Looking Through a New Lens: An Interview with Arlene Raven" by Terry Wolverton

"Feminist Art Education at the Los Angeles Woman’s Building" by Betty Ann Brown

" 'At Home’ at the Woman’s Building (But Who Gets a Room of Her Own?): Women of Color and Community" by Michelle Moravec and Sondra Hale

"The Ritual Body as Pedagogical Tool: the Performance Art of the Woman’s Building" by Jennie Klein

"The Community of Design/the Design: An E-mail Dialogue Between Sheila Levrant de Bretteville and Bia Lowe"

"Books in a New Language" by Kathleen A. Walkup

"Stories from a Generation: Video Art at the Woman’s Building" by Cecilia Dougherty

"Words, Writers, Women" by Michele Kort

"Lesbian Art: A Partia Inventory" by Terry Wolverton

"Unburying Histories: the Futures of Feminist Art" by Theresa Chavez

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Copyright. 1999-2015. This site was originally created by Ruth Ann Anderson, Elizabeth Canelake and Sue Maberry. Additional contributions by Susan Silton and Terry Wolverton.