American Women — Art and artists

  • The Velvet Sledgehammer: April 4, 1980- Eleanor Munro on women artists

    Today’s program is an interview with art critic Eleanor Munro about her book “Originals: American Women Artists,” hosted and produced by Ann Stubbs.

  • Visions: sculptor Altina interviewed by Pam Peabody

    WPFW’s Visions, a series on visual arts, features an interview with Altina (Schinasi), sculptor of portrait chairs and benches, and with Joan Mister, assistant director of Washington Women’s Art Center. Altina talks about her background studying with George Grosz and about the work in her current show at the Touchstone Gallery. Both are interviewed by…

  • The Velvet Sledgehammer: December 20, 1978

    The Velvet Sledgehammer for December 20, 1978, produced by Adrienne Gantt. Contents: Interview with Marie-Therese Brincard of the Brooklyn Museum of Art on its exhibition of Nubia,”African and Antiquity”; a report on HEW hearings on government funding to research in vitro fertilization, including an interview with Barbara Mishkin and excerpts from the hearings; Merlin Stone…

  • Three women painters

    Lucia Vernarelli, painter and editer of the feminist artist publication “Women and Art,” speaks about three women artists. They are Marie Laurencin (1883 – 1956), Leonor Fini (1907 – 1996), and Paula Modersohn-Becker (1876 – 1907). She uses the personal papers of the artists to aid in understanding them.  From the series “Women’s diaries and…

  • Sex and art: scholarship and vulgarity

    A program on sex and art. Begins with a reading from Edward Albee’s introduction to Atmospheres and Environments, the catalog from the Whitney Museum on the work of Louise Nevelson; excerpts from interview with art critic and curator Lawrence Alloway, who discusses Artforum and its bibliography on women and art; readings from the current issue…

  • Judy Chicago interviewed by Celeste Wesson

    Judy Chicago, pioneering feminist artist who created the first women’s art program in Fresno, CA, is interviewed by Celeste Wesson concerning Chicago’s upcoming book on a community art project called “The Dinner Party.” Chicago gives the background to her Dinner Party project, her hopes for its touring, how it is presented by the actual exhibit…

  • Majority report, January 21, 1982

    Sherry Krynski and Ginny Z. Berson host Majority Report for January 21, 1982. Segments: 1. News wrap-up — 2. Berson talks with Chris Carroll, station manager of WRFG in Atlanta, Georgia, and chairman of the Women’s Advisory Committee of the National Federation of Community Broadcasters (NFCB) about women in public broadcasting — 3. Paci Hammond…

  • Majority report, May 6, 1982: Judy Chicago, San Francisco Women’s Building, Merle Woo

    Julia Randall and Ginny Z. Berson host Majority Report, May 6, 1982. Segments: 1. News wrap-up — 2. Artist Judy Chicago talks about The Birth Project, her follow-up to The Dinner Party, with KPFA’s Toni Gray; also includes interviews with some of the participants in the project — 3. A celebration of the third anniversary…

  • Majority report, May 13, 1982: Hansberry, Mother’s Day March, Studio W

    Julia Randall and Ginny Z. Berson host Majority Report, May 13, 1982. Segments: 1. News wrap-up — 2. A birthday tribute to playwright Lorraine Hansberry produced by Ginny Z. Berson; includes audio from a performance of her play “A Raisin in the Sun” and an excerpt from a TV interview with Hansberry by Mike Wallace…

  • Majority report, June 3, 1982: NOW, Jewish Feminist Conference, Vida Gallery, survivors of Hiroshima

    Ginny Z. Berson and Marci Lockwood host Majority Report, June 3, 1982. Segments: 1. News wrap-up — 2. Ginny Foat, president of the National Organization for Women (NOW)-California, discusses last-minute strategies to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment with Ginny Z. Berson — 3. A report by Marci Lockwood on the Jewish Feminist Conference held in…