American Women — Art and artists

  • Thor’s hammer: April 18, 1981-Elspeth Meyer

    Charles Lynch interviews batik artist, teacher and political activist Elspeth Meyer about her work and current show at the Verbena Gallery.

  • Women in the arts I (Episode 1 of 5)

    Judy Chicago and Miriam Schapiro, architects of a feminist art program at the California Institute of the Arts, discuss current feminist activities in Los Angeles. Chicago and Schapiro talk about touring women artists’ studios in San Francisco, Los Angeles and San Diego and describe the general situation of women artists in the contemporary landscape, and…

  • Women in the arts II (Episode 2 of 5)

    Judy Chicago reviews the growth of feminism in the arts and discusses the new consciousness of women in the art community and the necessity of restructuring that community. The focus of this discussion is the Market Street Project, a show organized by male artists which opened in Venice, CA in November 1971, and how dozens…

  • Women in the arts V (Episode 5 of 5)

    Miriam Schapiro, feminist art instructor at California Institute of the Arts, talks with Beth Bachenheimer, artist from CalArts in the Feminist Art program at Cal Arts. Schapiro talks about how women have historically been denied a well-rounded education, and discusses the planning and exhibition of Womanhouse, what would become the first large-scale feminist public art…

  • Space and social change: Dolores Hayden interviewed by Sheila de Bretteville and Clare Spark Loeb

    Dolores Hayden, architect and founder of Women in Architecture, Landscape Architecture, and Planning (WALAP) and author of “Space and social change,” a study of six communitarian experiments in the 19th century, is interviewed by Sheila De Bretteville of the Women’s Design Program at Cal Arts and Clare Spark Loeb, host of the “Sour apple tree”…

  • Art and mythology of India

    Clare Spark talks with Dr. Pratapaditya Pal, the curator for Islamic and Indian art at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. The role of mythology in Indian tradition, especially as regards the Heeramaneck collection. Pal starts with talking about the Standing Ganesha sculpture in LACMA’s collection that dates from around the 16th-17th century A.D,…

  • The artist as entrepreneur / Rosemary E. Reed Miller ; interviewed by Elaine Heffernan.

    Rosemary E. Reed Miller, owner and president of an accessory and clothing store, Toast and Strawberries in Washington,DC. discusses economic alternatives for artists. Host: Elaine Heffernan. Engineer: Naomi Eftis.

  • The Politics of making it.

    Women artists and writers discuss and examine the anatomy of success and its relationship to power, influence and self-fulfillment. The participants are Shirley Clarke, filmmaker; Louise Nevelson, sculptor; Rosalyn Drexler, playwright; and Vivian Gornick, writer and moderator of the discussion. Recorded at the Women’s InterArt Center in New York City. Produced for WBAI by Susan…

  • The sour apple tree : June Wayne.

    June Wayne (1918-2011), artist, educator and co-founder of the Tamarind Lithography Workshop, reads a paper she read recently entitled “The Male Artist: a stereotypical female,” and later is interviewed by host Clare Spark (Loeb). Spark also announces a series of lectures at UCLA Extension she is coordinating called “The Arts and Social Change,” which started…

  • Women in art / produced by Bonnie Bellow.

    The problems of “women in art” are discussed by a panel of women artists and critics. The program was recorded during a series of Art Forums at the Emanu-El Midtown Y in New York. Panelists include Lucy Lippard, art critic; Cindy Nemser, teacher, writer and curator; Ruth Vodicka, sculptor; Camille Billops, sculptor and ceramics teacher…