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Webbing Resources for Women, Art and Culture


ART MUSEUMS

National Museum of Women and the Arts
The National Gallery of Art

Smithsonian: Sackler & Freer Galleries
Smithsonian: Hirschorn Museum and Sculpture Garden
Smithsonian: The Anacostia Museum
Smithsonian: National Museum of African Art
Smithsonian: National Museum of American Art

Smithsonian: National Museum of the American Indian
Smithsonian Museums and Research Centers


Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage
Central Appalachian Festival Project

The Corcoran Gallery of Art
The Phillips Collection
The Renwick Gallery
The Textile Museum

The Art Gallery of the University of Maryland
Howard University Gallery of Art


RESOURCE WEB SITES

Women Artists in History
Varo Registry of Women Artists: contemporary international women artists
The History of Art Virtual Library

UMD: The Art Library: Resources for the Study of Art, Art History and Archeology
UMD: Electronic Resources in Art, Art History and Archeology
UMD: Electronic Resources in Women's Studies
ArtsEdNet, the Getty's Arts Education Web Site

artReach.com: the guide to fine arts on the world wide web
The Grove Dictionary of Art
The Online Reference Shelf
The Social and Public Art Resource Center (SPARC)
Links Public Art Online
The NAMES Project: the AIDS Memorial Quilt

The Women's Review of Books
Spinifex Press Web Site
Internet Women's History Sourcebook
Academy of American Poets
Women Composers and Women's Music Resources
Catalog of Lesbian Plays


ARCHIVES
Portraits of Women by Women through the Ages
Women Artists Archive
Women's Prehistoric Jomon Pottery
African American Writers, a Celebration
Voices from the Gaps, Women Writers of Color
South Asian Women Writers
Feminist Science Fiction, Fantasy and Utopia
Women in the Director's Chair, with online film clips
Learner.Org Browse Arts Collections
The Face and Place of Poetry

Documents from the Women's Liberation Movement
Inventory of the Women's Action Coalition Records, 1992-1997

The Holocaust: A Learning Site for Students


ONLINE EXHIBITIONS AND GALLERY SPACES

The Permanent Collection of the National Museum of Women and the Arts
Devi, the Great Goddess

Millennial Myths: Paintings by Lynn Randolph

Navigating the Body: A Visibility Project & Online Exhibition


Lower East Side Printshop
Gallery of the Survivors Art Foundation


E-ZINES

n.paradoxa: the only international feminist art journal
SWITCH: Electronic Gender, Art at the Interstice
Science Fiction Studies
Womanist

Feminist Zine Rack

Broad Universe


ARTISTS IN VARIOUS FORMS, GENRES AND MEDIA

Claribel Alegria, Salvadoran poet & novelist
AlcottWeb -- A Louisa May Alcott Site
Meena Alexander, South Asian poet
Isabel Allende: Books, Roots, Curiosities
Julie Ault on Group Material
Maya Angelou, poet & novelist
Judy Baca, public muralist
Egypt, Culture, Salwa Bakr
Rosa Bonheur, landscape & animal painter
Sokari Douglas Camp: New Work
Mary Cassatt, impressionist

Lucille Clifton, poetry
Carole Conde & Karl Beveridge: Labor Activist Art
Diana Der-Hovanessian
Toi Derricotte, poetry
The Emily Dickinson Electronic Archives
About Ani DiFranco
Assia Djebar, Postcolonial author
Ursula Duba, poetry
Lavinia Fontana, 16th c. artist
Anne Frank Center
Helen Frankenthaler, Abstract Expressionist
Carolyn Forche, Poetry, Teaching and Buddhism
Nadine Gordimer, South African novelist & activist
Guerrilla Girls, art activism
Joy Harjo and Poetic Justice
Jenny Holzer, art in public space
Virgina Hamilton, children's book writer
bell hooks, theorist and writer
Magdelen Hsu-Li, Singer-Songwriter
Frida Kahlo, visionary artist
Käthe Kollwitz, printmaker & activist

Naure, Culture, Public Space: Art of Suzanne Lacy
Liz Lerman Dance Exchange
Carolina Maria de Jesus Project
Maria Sibylla Merian, 17th c. artist & scientist
Demetria Martinez, Chicana poet
Matilde Mellibovsky & the literature of the Disappeared
Maureen Mullarkey: Paintings, Drawings and Studio Matters
Taslima Nasrin, poet & human rights activist
Holly Near's Art & Activism Site
Alice Neel, painter of urban life
Grace Paley, Art and Social Life
Sylvia Plath, poetry
Minnie Bruce Pratt, poetry
Malvina Reynolds, Songwriter
Adrienne Rich, poetry and feminist theory

Faith Ringgold, Dancing at the Louvre
Hope Sandrow's TIME (space) art work online

Peggy Seeger, Folksinger
Billboard Art Portfolio: Elizabeth Sisco, David Avalos, Louis Hock
African American singing group: Sweet Honey in the Rock

Martha Rosler, video artist
Mierle Ukeles, Maintenance Art
The Poetry of Yona Wallach

Ladyslipper, Feminist Music
Women Singer Songwriters


ART AND ART ACTIVIST ORGANIZATIONS

artWomen.org
SPARC: Social and Public Art Resource Center
Survivors Art Foundation
Art in Defense of Human Rights
WISCON: the gathering of the feminist science fiction community
SPLIT SCREEN: indie filmmakers
Film and Destroy, women experimental filmmakers

Women, Film and Video Links
National Women's Music Festival

Art in the Public Interest
Public Art on the Net
ACT-UP, New York

National Endowment for the Arts

Phoenix Shadow Project & International Shadows Project Show


FEMINISM, POLITICAL ACTIVISM, AND FEMINIST APPROACHES TO CULTURE

Women's Studies / Women's Issues Resource Sites
Media and Communications Studies Site: Gender
T.V.Reed's Gender & Popular Culture Site
WomenWatch
Center for the Study of Human Rights
Human Rights Watch
Institute for Global Communication: PeaceNet, EcoNet, WomensNet, Anti-RacismNet
Sisterhood is Global Institute

Women in Development Network
Women and Earth Global Eco-Network
Race & Gender in Media: Indigenous Peoples
Center for World Indigenous Studies
Women in Global Science and Technology

National Women's History Project
Feminist Bookstore Network


WRITINGS ON WOMEN, ART, CULTURE AND ACTIVISMS


essay: Poetry and Politics of Greek Women Poets by Eleni Fourtouni

essay: I won't forget the night my grandma Lucy died by Demetria Martinez
essay: We are all Albanians by Slavenka Drakulic
essay: Why Feminist Utopians Might Like Science Fiction by Diane Koester
essay: Nonviolence Speaks to Power by Petra Kelly


essays: Ecological Art Perspectives & Issues (includes women artists)

excerpt: Dreams of Trespass: Tales of a Harem Girlhood by Fatima Mernissi
roundtable discussion: Women Writing Poetry & the Internet



WOMEN IN THE WEB

The Ada Project
Interview with Sadie Plant
SWITCH: Cyberfeminist Resources
Virtual Sisterhood
Center for Women and Information Technology
Women'space Magazine
Women Connect: using and shaping the internet together
Universal Access: Using a Gender-based Analysis
WIC: Women's Resources on the Net
GenTech: Gender, Equity Issues and Information Technologies
Instutute for Women and Technology
Wow'Em: Women on the Web: ElectronMedia
gURL.com
Cybergrrl Safety Net: domestic violence resources


GIRLS, ARTS & GAMES, ACTIVISM, FEMINIST RESEARCH

Sister's Choice: storytelling and songs for girls
Laura Ingalls Wilder Home and Museum
Prince Edward Island: Virtual Green Gables
American Girl: Games, Dolls, Stories
The Children's Music Network
New Moon, the Magazine for Girls and their Dreams

Stone Soup Magazine
The Children's Encyclopedia of Women

Just 4 Girls: Junior Girl Scouts
Welcome to Club Girl Tech!
Girl Power! Campaign
Websites for Girls

Expect the Best from a Girl

Ms. Foundation for Women & Girls
The Wellesley Centers for Women (Research on Girls)


GETTING PLACES, COLLEGE PARK, WASHINGTON DC METRO AREA

Art in Metro Stations
Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority Home Page (Metro and Buses)
Shuttle-UM
Campus Maps Home Page
City of College Park
District of Columbia Transit Links


Katie's Syllabus WMST 250 Fall 2004
How should you evaluate web sites?
Citing Electronic Information

Last updated 8/30/04
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