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Resources

Resources

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Note 1: the following pages may include potentially disturbing content (any content warnings below are only mentioned if deemed relevant to the brief description on this page, not for the pages linked, which may include other potentially disturbing content, including visually disturbing content). Viewer discretion is advised.

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Note 2: Due to the impossibility of reading and reviewing all content produced by the resources cited below and the variety of such content, note that the creator of this list may not approve of everything found in the below sources.

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Note 3: clicking on a link will lead you to the online website of the resource in question.

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Resources on Art, Art History, and Individuals who face gender oppression in the Visual Arts

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General resources

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1. Museum of Transgender Hirstory and Art (MOTHA):

    https://www.motha.net/ .

 

2. National Museum of Women in Arts (NMWA):
   
https://nmwa.org/ .

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3. Boundless Art History on Lumen Learning:

    https://courses.lumenlearning.com/boundless-arthistory/ .

 

4. JSTOR (a digital library of academic articles, sources, books, artwork, photographs, and more) (100 free     articles/month):

   https://www.jstor.org ;

   https://www.jstor.org/action/doBasicSearch?Query=women+artists .

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5. Artcyclopedia:

   http://www.artcyclopedia.com ;

   http://www.artcyclopedia.com/artists/women.html .

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6. Queer Art History:

    https://www.queerarthistory.com/ ;

    https://www.queerarthistory.com/tag/transgender/ .

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Organizations

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1. Maya Women in Art:

   https://www.mayawomeninart.org/ .

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2. Black Trans Femme Artists (BTFA) Collective:

    https://www.btfacollective.org/ .

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3. Professional Women Photographers (PWP):

    http://www.pwponline.org/ .

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4. Tessera Arts Collective (TAC) (an organization supporting

    people of color of marginalized genders in abstract art):

    https://www.tesseracollective.com/ .

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5. Feminist Center for Creative Work (FCCW; previously Women's Center for Creative Work or WCCW):

    https://womenscenterforcreativework.com/ .

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6. TILA Studios (an organization supporting Black women artists):

     https://www.tilastudios.com/ .

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7. Arte Sana ([content warning: gender and racial violence and sexual assault] an organization for                                   underserved survivors of gender and racial violence and sexual assault that promotes healing and                               empowerment through art and, in particular, champions bilingual exhibits in English and Spanish): 

   https://nuestrasvocesconf.wixsite.com/artesana/about-arte-sana .

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8. DrawBridge ([content warning: homelessness] an arts program for underserved and homeless children):

    https://www.drawbridge.org/ .

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9. Queer Women of Color Media Arts Project (QWOCMAP):

    https://qwocmap.org .

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10. Asian American Women Artists Association (AAWAA):

      https://www.aawaa.net  .

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Art History Journals

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1. Journal 18 (a journal on 18th century art):

   https://www.journal18.org/ .

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2. Nineteenth-Century Art Worldwide (NCAW):

    http://www.19thc-artworldwide.org/ .

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3. Elephant (a magazine on contemporary culture and visual arts):

    https://elephant.art/ .

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Recognition

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We wish to acknowledge the work of the many activists and advocates in this field that came before us, such as the Black women who founded the organization "Where We At" to contrast racism and sexism in the art world, as well as many other trailblazers.

Top image credits: includes parts of images of Untitled (Standing Woman) by Elizabeth Catlett and Process and Vision of the Peace Accords (2007) by Paula Nicho Cúmez.

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