What is Feminist Art? questionnaire responses
name: label: Creator
content: Archives of American Art
label: Names
content: Woman's Building (Los Angeles, Calif.)
label: Names
content: Savig, Mary, 1982-
topic: label: Topic
content: Feminism and art
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: The responses were donated individually by each artist in 2019 and 2020.
creator: label: Creator
content: Archives of American Art
setName: label: See more items in
content: What is Feminist Art? questionnaire responses
abstract: label: Summary
content: The What is Feminist Art? questionnaire responses date from 2019 and measure 0.4 linear feet. Found are fifty responses to a questionnaire sent by Mary Savig, Curator of Manuscripts at the Archives of American Art, asking "What is Feminist Art?" Sent by women artists, the responses are on a single sheet of 8 1/2" by 11" paper and include collages, drawings, paintings, photographs, prints, and handwritten and typescript statements.
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: The Archives of American Art compiled these documents for the exhibition "What is Feminist Art?" (2019) at the Lawrence A. Fleischman Gallery. They were presented along with responses to the same question posed to artists in 1976 and 1977. The responses from the 1970s were organized into an exhibition at the Woman's Building, Los Angeles, California, February 1977.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 0.4 Linear feet
unitdate: label: Date
content: 2019
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.whatisfe
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
arrangement: label: Arrangement
content: Due to the small size of this collection the papers are arranged as one series.
processinfo: label: Processing Information
content: The collection was processed, and a finding aid prepared by Jayna Josefson in 2025 with received support from the Judith Godwin Arts Foundation
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: The What is Feminist Art? questionnaire responses date from 2019 and measure 0.4 linear feet. Found are fifty responses to a questionnaire sent by Mary Savig, Curator of Manuscripts at the Archives of American Art, asking "What is Feminist Art?" Sent by women artists, the responses are on a single sheet of 8 1/2" by 11" paper and include collages, drawings, paintings, photographs, prints, and handwritten and typescript statements.
relatedmaterial: label: Related Materials
content: The Archives of American Art also holds the records of the Woman's Building which include responses and other documentation relating to the 1977 exhibition "What is Feminist Art?"