Women's Studio Workshop

Women's Studio Workshop
Formation	1974
Headquarters	Rosendale, New York
Website	wsworkshop.org

Women's Studio Workshop (WSW) is a nonprofit visual arts studio and private press offering residencies and educational workshops, located in Rosendale, New York.

The workshop was founded in 1974 by Ann Kalmbach, Tatana Kellner, Anita Wetzel, and Barbara Leoff Burge as an alternative space for female artists to create new work, gain artistic experience, and develop new skills. The studio operates throughout the year with artist residencies, gallery exhibitions, artist lectures, and diverse educational programs for children and adults. In addition, they operate a Summer Art Institute which includes options to study abroad. The studio supports projects in a wide range of media types, with a focus on book arts, papermaking, and printmaking methods: screen printing, letterpress, etching, intaglio.

The workshop is represented in book arts and special collections of notable libraries, such as the Library of Congress,^[1] the National Museum of Women in the Arts,^[2] the Dexter Library, Maryland Institute College of Art, and James Branch Cabell Library, Virginia Commonwealth University. Editions by visiting artists published by the Women's Studio Workshop^[3] have been featured in overview exhibitions and symposiums on contemporary book arts such as the Codex Book Fair and Symposium,^[4] and the Pyramid Atlantic Book Arts Fair.

The Artists' Book Collection

The artists' books produced at the studio cover a range of topics from the political to the personal. The books come in a variety of forms, ranging from interactive puzzles that must be assembled to accordion folded books to books made with a variety of mixed media.

References

^ "Library of Congress Acquires Rosendale Women's Studio Handmade Book Collection". Hudson Valley Business Journal (Print). 6 June 2013. pp. 2–4.
^ Krystyna Wasserman; Joanna Drucker; Audrey Audrey Niffenegger. The Book as Art: Artists' Books from the National Museum of Women in the Arts (Print). New York: Princeton Architectural Press. pp. 79–81. ISBN 9781568989921.
^ Kathy Walkup; Grolier Club. (2010). Hand, voice & vision : artists' books from Women's Studio Workshop. Rosendale, N.Y.: Women's Studio Workshop. Retrieved 1 February 2014.
^ Jury, David; Koch, Peter Rutledge (2008). Book Art Object (Print). Codex Foundation. pp. 355–357, 382, 417.

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International	ISNI VIAF
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v t e Feminist art movement in the United States
Feminist art Feminist art movement Women artists
Precursors	American Association of University Women (1881) National Association of Women Artists (1889) New York School of Applied Design for Women (1892)
Venues or organizations	A.I.R. Gallery Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art (Brooklyn Museum) Feminist Art Coalition Hera Gallery Lesbian Art Project National Museum of Women in the Arts New York Feminist Art Institute SOHO20 Gallery tArt Collective Washington Women's Art Center Women Artists in Revolution (WAR) Women's Art Resources of Minnesota Woman's Building (Los Angeles) The Women's Building (San Francisco) Women's Interart Center Women's Studio Workshop
Exhibitions or installations	Womanhouse (1972) Three Weeks in May (1977) The Sister Chapel (1974–1978) The Dinner Party (1979) WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution (2007)
Films or documentaries	!Women Art Revolution
Publications	Heresies: A Feminist Publication on Art and Politics (1977–1992) The Feminist Art Journal (1972–1977) "Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists?" (1971)
Groups	subRosa Guerrilla Girls The Waitresses Women Artists in Revolution Women's Caucus for Art Where We At
Notable women	Alison Bechdel Lynda Benglis Louise Bourgeois Norma Broude Judy Chicago Elaine de Kooning Mary Beth Edelson Suzi Ferrer Helen Frankenthaler Mary Garrard Nancy Graves Eva Hesse Lila Katzen Jane Kaufman Lee Krasner Georgia O'Keeffe Barbara Kruger Louise Nevelson Yoko Ono M. C. Richards Rachel Rosenthal Carolee Schneemann Cindy Sherman Alma Thomas June Wayne
Lists	List of feminist artists Women in the art history field
Feminist movements and ideologies

The Artists' Book Collection

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