Still Doin’ It: Fanning the Flames of the Woman’s Building
Symposium: Still Doin’ It: Fanning the Flames of the Woman’s Building
Saturday and Sunday, October 15 and 16, 2011
Part symposium/convening/reunion, this two-day event offers a dialogue between feminist artists then and now.
Locations: Otis College of Art and Design, 9045 Lincoln Boulevard, Los Angeles, 90045, California, USA / Antioch University, 400 Corporate Pointe, Culver City, 90230, California, USA / Skirball Cultural Center, 2701 N. Sepulveda Blvd, Los Angeles, 90049, California, USA
Symposium highlights include a performance by Phranc The all-American Jewish lesbian folksinger Phranc perfoms Sunday, Oct 16 at 4pm at the Skirball Cultural Center. Tickets: General $25 / Skirball Members $20 / Full-time Students $15 (with valid ID at door) / Recieve $5 discount
Doin' It in Public: Feminism and Art at the Woman's Building
at Ben Maltz Gallery, October 1, 2011 – January 28, 2012, comprises an exhibition, two scholarly publications, an online feminist herstory project and series of public events that document, contextualize and pay tribute to the groundbreaking work of feminist artists and art cooperatives that were centered in and around the Los Angeles Woman’s Building (downtown L.A.) in the 1970s and 1980s.
Learn more about the exhibition and the feminist herstory project.
Promotional video about the symposium: Still Doin’ It: Fanning the Flames of the Woman’s Building