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Aleppo: An Ancient City of Enduring Appeal

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Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery  Search this
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YouTube Videos
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2017-04-27T19:39:50.000Z
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Art, Asian  Search this
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Yoga as Architecture

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Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery  Search this
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YouTube Videos
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2014-01-27T16:45:08.000Z
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Once Upon a Roof: Vanished Korean Architecture - Exhibition Highlights

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Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery  Search this
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Freer Medal Lecture and Award Ceremony: Honoring Gülru Necipoğlu

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Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery  Search this
Type:
Lectures
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2023-11-01T11:56:38.000Z
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Education  Search this
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Palmyra

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Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery  Search this
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2015-08-28T14:17:17.000Z
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Film & Animation  Search this
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Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery
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Pair of portieres

Medium:
Medium: cotton, rayon Technique: woven
Dimensions:
H x W (a): 256 × 117.5 cm (100 13/16 × 46 1/4 in.)
H x W (b): 254 × 117.5 cm (100 × 46 1/4 in.)
Type:
woven textiles
Pair of portieres
Made in:
Europe
Date:
1915
Credit Line:
Gift of Jordan Volpe Gallery
Accession Number:
1983-20-1-a,b
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Textiles Department
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Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
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http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/kq4d6313abf-bf19-4fe4-b243-314dc5dc78e4
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:chndm_1983-20-1-a_b
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Fragment of an architectural ornament, a scaly naga

Medium:
Glazed stoneware with underglaze iron pigment applied over white slip
Dimensions:
H x W x D: 2.8 x 10.2 x 6.2 cm (1 1/8 x 4 x 2 7/16 in)
Style:
Sukhothai ware
Type:
Architectural Element
Origin:
Sukhothai, Sukhothai province, Thailand
Date:
1522-1563
Period:
Ayutthaya period
Topic:
ceramic  Search this
Sukhothai ware  Search this
naga  Search this
Thailand  Search this
Ayutthaya period (1351 - 1767)  Search this
stoneware  Search this
Southeast Asian Art  Search this
Hauge collection  Search this
Credit Line:
Gift of Victor and Takako Hauge
Accession Number:
FSC-P-5833
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Usage conditions apply
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Google Cultural Institute
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Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery
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http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ye3b1e36091-5e7d-44aa-b8fe-615ab63807d2
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:fsg_FSC-P-5833

1976 Nagoya, Japan Part 2

Creator:
Human Studies Film Archives  Search this
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YouTube Videos
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2015-03-05T21:14:29.000Z
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1976 Tomonoura, Japan

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Human Studies Film Archives  Search this
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2015-02-18T17:46:21.000Z
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Human Studies Film Archives
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Caravan to Kabul - ca. 1975

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Human Studies Film Archives  Search this
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YouTube Videos
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2011-03-17T18:34:15.000Z
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The Golden Domes of Moscow (1979)

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Human Studies Film Archives  Search this
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YouTube Videos
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2019-08-06T20:42:58.000Z
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Film & Animation  Search this
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A Meeting with the Dalai Lama, ca. 1965

Creator:
Human Studies Film Archives  Search this
Type:
Lectures
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2011-04-07T20:12:04.000Z
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Travel & Events  Search this
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Anthropology  Search this
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Human Studies Film Archives
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1976 Nagoya, Japan Part 1

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Human Studies Film Archives  Search this
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YouTube Videos
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2015-03-05T21:05:35.000Z
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Human Studies Film Archives
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Shahzia Sikander and Glenn Lowry in Conversation

Creator:
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum  Search this
Type:
Conversations and talks
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2009-04-25T20:27:52.000Z
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Nonprofits & Activism  Search this
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Design  Search this
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Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
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Woman's Building records

Creator:
Woman's Building (Los Angeles, Calif.)  Search this
Names:
Feminist Studio Workshop  Search this
Women's Graphic Center (Los Angeles, Calif.)  Search this
Chicago, Judy, 1939-  Search this
De Bretteville, Sheila Levrant  Search this
Raven, Arlene  Search this
Extent:
32.5 Linear feet
Type:
Collection descriptions
Archival materials
Slides
Artists' books
Date:
1970-1992
Summary:
The records of the Woman's Building feminist arts organization in Los Angeles measure 32.5 linear feet and date from 1970-1992. Originally founded by artist Judy Chicago, graphic designer Sheila Levant de Bretteville, and art historian Arlene Raven in 1973, the Woman's Building served as an education center and public gallery space for women artists in southern California. The records document both the educational and exhibition activities and consist of administrative records, financial and legal records, publications, curriculum files, exhibition files, grant funding records and artist's works of arts and prints. A significant portion of the collection documents the Women's Graphic Center, a typesetting, design, and printing service operated by The Woman's Building.
Scope and Content Note:
The records of the Woman's Building measure 32.5 linear feet and date from 1970 to 1992. The organization played a key role as an alternative space for women artists energized by the feminist movement in the 1970s. The records document the ways in which feminist theory shaped the Building's founding core mission and goals. During its eighteen year history, the Building served as an education center and a public gallery space for women artists in Los Angeles and southern California; the records reflect both functions of the Building's activities.

The Administrative Files series documents the daily operations of the Building, with particular emphasis on management policies, budget planning, history, cooperative relationships with outside art organizations and galleries, special building-wide programs, and relocation planning. Included in this series are the complete minutes from most Building committees from 1974 through closing, including the Board of Directors and the Advisory Council. The General Publicity and Outreach series is particularly complete, containing publicity notices from most events, exhibits, and programs held at the Woman's Building, including brochures, announcements, programs, invitations, press releases, newspaper clippings, and magazine articles.

The Woman's Building's educational programs centered on courses offered by the Feminist Studio Workshop and the Extension Program. While the Workshop provided a two-year program for women interested in fully developing their artistic talent, the Extension Program offered a broad range of classes, specifically oriented to working women interested in art and art vocations. The records fully document both programs, focusing on the course development and descriptions, teacher contracts, class evaluations, budget planning, and scholarship programs. Although the Archives does not have the entire slide library, there are files concerning the establishment and administration of the library, as well as a few folders of slides.

The Gallery Programs series houses the records of the visual, performing, literary and video arts events held at the Woman's Building. Administrative files detail the daily operation of the gallery spaces. The files in the remaining subseries are primarily arranged by event and contain proposals, announcements, publicity, and artist biographies.

The Women's Graphic Center became a profit-making arm of the Woman's Building in 1981 but the typesetting and design equipment had been used by staff and students since 1975. The records in this series focus on the work produced at the Center, including general projects and artist designs and art prints. Many of the design and printing examples were produced for Woman's Building events and programs.

The Artist's Works of Art series includes artist books, resumes, correspondence, postcards, and samples of art in the form of sketches, drawings, and prints. There is also material related to Woman's Building projects. Especially noteworthy is the "What is Feminist Art?" project where artists gave their responses in various formats and mediums from text to pieces of artwork.
Arrangement:
The collection is arranged into 6 series.

Series 1: Administrative Files, circa 1970-1991 (Box 1-9, 32; 9 linear feet)

Series 2: Educational Programs, 1971-1991 (Box 10-14; 4.9 linear feet)

Series 3: Gallery Programs, 1973-1991 (Box 14-20, OV 54; 5.7 linear feet)

Series 4: Women's Graphic Center, circa 1976-1989 (Box 20-23, 32, OV 33-50; 5.6 linear feet)

Series 5: Artists' Works of Art, circa 1972-1990 (Box 24-25, OV 51-53; 1.7 linear feet)

Series 6: Grants, 1974-1992 (Box 25-30; 5.3 linear feet)
Historical Note:
In 1973, artist Judy Chicago, graphic designer Sheila Levant de Bretteville, and art historian Arlene Raven founded the Feminist Studio Workshop (FSW), one of the first independent schools for women artists. The founders established the workshop as a non-profit alternative education center committed to developing art based on women's experiences. The FSW focused not only on the development of art skills, but also on the development of women's experiences and the incorporation of those experiences into their artwork. Central to this vision was the idea that art should not be separated from other activities related to the developing women's movement. In November of 1973 the founders rented workshop space in a vacated building in downtown Los Angeles and called it The Woman's Building, taking the name from the structure created for the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago. The FSW shared space with other organizations and enterprises including several performance groups, Womanspace Gallery, Sisterhood Bookstore, the National Organization of Women, and the Women's Liberation Union.

When the building they were renting was sold in 1975, the FSW and a few other tenants moved to a three-story brick structure, originally designed to be the administrative offices of the Standard Oil Company in the 1920s. In the 1940s, it had been converted into a warehouse and consisted of three floors of open space, conducive to publically available extension classes and exhibitions offered by the Woman's Building staff and students. By 1977, the majority of the outside tenants had left the Woman's Building, primarily because they were unable to sustain business in the new location. The new building was more expensive to maintain and the FSW staff decided to hire an administrator and to create a board structure to assume the financial, legal, and administrative responsibility for the Building. The funds to operate came from FSW tuition, memberships, fund-raising events, and grant monies.

In 1981, the Feminist Studio Workshop closed, as the demand for alternative education diminished. The education programs of the Building were restructured to better accommodate the needs of working women. The Woman's Building also began to generate its own artistic programming with outside artists, including visual arts exhibits, performance art, readings, and video productions. That same year, the Woman's Building founded the Women's Graphic Center Typesetting and Design, a profit-making enterprises designed to strengthen its financial base. Income generated from the phototypesetting, design, production, and printing services was used to support the educational and art making activities of the Building.

When the graphics business closed in 1988, the Woman's Building suffered a financial crisis from which it never fully recovered. The Building closed its gallery and performance space in 1991.
Related Material:
Among the other resources relating to the Woman's Building in the Archives of American Art is an oral history with Suzanne Lacy on March 16, 1990, March 24, 1990, and September 24, 1990. While not credited as a founding member, Lacy was among the first group of staff of the Woman's Building which she discusses in her interview.

The Getty Research Institute also holds a large collection on the Woman's Building which includes a wide range of material relating to its exhibitions, activities, and projects.
Separated Material:
The Archives of American Art donated 5 boxes of video tape from the collection to the Long Beach Museum of Art, Video Annex in 1994. According to documentation, this was the desire of Sandra Golvin and the Board of Directors of the Woman's Building. Printed material collected but not produced by the Woman's Building regarding feminism was transfered to Smithsonian Institution Libraries.
Provenance:
The Woman's Building records were donated to the Archives of American Art in 1991 by Sandra Golvin, President of the Board of Directors. An small addition of a set of "Cross Pollination" posters was donated in 2019 by by ONE Archives at University of Southern California Libraries via Loni Shibuyama, Archives Librarian.
Topic:
Works of art  Search this
Art -- Study and teaching -- California -- Los Angeles  Search this
Women artists  Search this
Feminism and art  Search this
Function:
Nonprofit organizations -- California
Arts organizations -- California
Genre/Form:
Slides
Artists' books
Citation:
Woman's Building records, 1970-1992. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
Identifier:
AAA.womabuil
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Archives of American Art
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EDAN-URL:
ead_collection:sova-aaa-womabuil
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Vacation Getaway, from the series House Beautiful: Bringing the War Home

Artist:
Martha Rosler, born New York City 1943  Search this
Medium:
inkjet print
Dimensions:
overall: 24 × 20 in. (61 × 50.8 cm)
Type:
Photography-Photoprint
Date:
ca. 1967-1972, printed 2018
Topic:
Figure group\male  Search this
Occupation\military\soldier  Search this
Architecture Interior\domestic\house  Search this
Credit Line:
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Norbert Hornstein and Amy Weinberg and museum purchase through the Luisita L. and Franz H. Denghausen Endowment
Copyright:
Courtesy of the artist and Mitchell-Innes & Nash, New York © Martha Rosler
Object number:
2021.7.13
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Department:
Graphic Arts
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Smithsonian American Art Museum, 3rd Floor, North Wing
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Smithsonian American Art Museum
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http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/vk74f4ef0fe-0114-4f24-b4c5-6f9dd5f02c2e
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edanmdm:saam_2021.7.13

Tron (Amputee), from the series House Beautiful: Bringing the War Home

Artist:
Martha Rosler, born New York City 1943  Search this
Medium:
inkjet print
Dimensions:
overall: 24 × 20 in. (61 × 50.8 cm)
Type:
Photography-Photoprint
Date:
ca. 1967-1972, printed 2018
Topic:
Figure female  Search this
Asian  Search this
State of being\disabled\physical disability  Search this
Architecture Interior\domestic\house  Search this
Credit Line:
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Norbert Hornstein and Amy Weinberg and museum purchase through the Luisita L. and Franz H. Denghausen Endowment
Copyright:
Courtesy of the artist and Mitchell-Innes & Nash, New York © Martha Rosler
Object number:
2021.7.2
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Graphic Arts
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Smithsonian American Art Museum, 3rd Floor, North Wing
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Smithsonian American Art Museum
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edanmdm:saam_2021.7.2

Boys Room, from the series House Beautiful: Bringing the War Home

Artist:
Martha Rosler, born New York City 1943  Search this
Medium:
inkjet print
Dimensions:
overall: 24 × 20 in. (61 × 50.8 cm)
Type:
Photography-Photoprint
Date:
ca. 1967-1972, printed 2018
Topic:
Children  Search this
Recreation\sport and play  Search this
Architecture Interior\domestic\bedroom  Search this
Architecture Interior\domestic\house  Search this
Credit Line:
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Norbert Hornstein and Amy Weinberg and museum purchase through the Luisita L. and Franz H. Denghausen Endowment
Copyright:
Courtesy of the artist and Mitchell-Innes & Nash, New York © Martha Rosler
Object number:
2021.7.3
Restrictions & Rights:
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Department:
Graphic Arts
On View:
Smithsonian American Art Museum, 3rd Floor, North Wing
Data Source:
Smithsonian American Art Museum
GUID:
http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/vk76e536ec4-8d7f-4401-ae01-95a88b031f8a
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:saam_2021.7.3

Disneyland, California, from the series East Meets West

Artist:
Tseng Kwong Chi, born Hong Kong, China 1950-died New York City 1990  Search this
Medium:
gelatin silver print
Dimensions:
frame: 37 1/4 × 37 1/4 in. (94.6 × 94.6 cm) image: 36 × 36 in. (91.4 × 91.4 cm)
Type:
Photography
Date:
1979, printed 2013
Topic:
Architecture Exterior\commercial\recreation  Search this
Landscape\California\Anaheim  Search this
Credit Line:
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum purchase through the Luisita L. and Franz H. Denghausen Endowment and the Asian Pacific American Initiatives Pool, administered by the Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center
Copyright:
© Muna Tseng Dance Projects, Inc.
Object number:
2021.14.3
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Graphic Arts
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Smithsonian American Art Museum
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http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/vk72d8ffd00-b841-4bba-a586-c883299c403c
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:saam_2021.14.3

Balloons, from the series House Beautiful: Bringing the War Home

Artist:
Martha Rosler, born New York City 1943  Search this
Medium:
inkjet print
Dimensions:
overall: 24 × 20 in. (61 × 50.8 cm)
Type:
Photography-Photoprint
Date:
ca. 1967-1972, printed 2018
Topic:
Figure group  Search this
Asian  Search this
Architecture Interior\domestic\house  Search this
Credit Line:
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Norbert Hornstein and Amy Weinberg and museum purchase through the Luisita L. and Franz H. Denghausen Endowment
Copyright:
Courtesy of the artist and Mitchell-Innes & Nash, New York © Martha Rosler
Object number:
2021.7.1
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Graphic Arts
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Smithsonian American Art Museum
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http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/vk7bcc7434d-0eaf-4f40-9b85-8326ad8332d2
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:saam_2021.7.1

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