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Exhibition: (H)errata
A collaborative exhibition designed […] to correct the errors and omissions of women in local museum exhibitions (Hershman 1977)
Curator(s): Lynn Hershman Jo Hansen Pat Tavenner
Participants: Judith Barry, Priscilla Birge, Jo Hansen, Robbin…
Exhibition: 1975-76 Art Institute Annual
The San Francisco Art Institute had an annual exhibition every year that was important to the community because artists curated it. It was called the Art Institute Annual, and it was usually a month-long exhibition. In 1976 it was literally an…
International Dinner Party
In another highly organized and publicized mass event, International Dinner Party, Lacy intermeshed the intimate character of early performance within a public setting. She contacted over a thousand women around the world by mail, asking them to…
The Lady and the Lamb or the Goat and the Hag
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The Bag Lady
When I was getting ready to do this piece, I went walking in downtown San Francisco to find a bag lady. I saw a woman in a worn blue coat looking through a vacant lot. I walked over and told her my name, and I said I was looking for a woman who was…
The Time and Life of Donaldina Cameron
The Life and Times of Donaldina Cameron, a performance piece, grew out of two artists’ desire to deal with this historical controversy. As an art form, performance combines experience and ideas into enticing blends, in this case a narrative…