Contemporary Afro-American Women Artists exhibition records
name: label: Creator
content: Women's Caucus for Art
topic: label: Topic
content: Women artists
label: Topic
content: African American artists
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Lent for microfilming December 1978 by Edith I. Martin.
creator: label: Creator
content: Women's Caucus for Art
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: The National Women's Caucus for Art is part of the College Art Association. The exhibition, commonly known as Contemporary Afro-American Women Artists, but also referred to as The National Exhibition of Contemporary Art by Afro-American Women Spanning the Years of 1950 to the Present, was to be held in conjunction with the College Art Association's annual meeting in 1979. Edith Martin and Tritobia Benjamin were co-curators. The exhibition was cancelled due to lack of funding.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1 Microfilm reel
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1969-1978
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.womecaua
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Microfilm reels
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: 35mm microfilm reel 1418 available at Archives of American Art offices and through interlibrary loan.
originalsloc: label: Existence and Location of Originals
content: Originals of some of the items documented in this microfilm are located at the Anacostia Community Museum Archives, Smithsonian Institution, as part of the Edith I. Martin Papers.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: This microfilm collection consists of material submitted by 46 African American artists to the National Women's Caucus for Art for the unrealized Contemporary Afro-American Women Artists exhibition. Materials include biographical information, statements about their art, photographs of the women and their work, and printed material.

Artists included are: Rose A. Auld, Loretta E. Ballard, Camille Billops, Barbara Jane Bullock, Viola Burley, Margaret Gross Burroughs, Lilian T. Burwell, Yvonne Pickering Carter, Juette Johnson Day, Gloria Terry Freeman, Karen D. Eutemey, Varnette P. Honeywood, Martha Jackson, Georgia Mills Jessup, Marie Johnson, Arinthia Lynn Jones, Lois Mailou Jones, Harriet Forte Kennedy, Patricia Mattison Landry, Samella S. Lewis, Geraldine McCullough, Edith Martin, Yvonne Olivia Cole Meo, Elizabeth Catlett Mora, Norma Morgan, Leigh H. Mosley, Marilyn Nance, Nefertiti, Winnie Owens, Kathleen J. Ballard Peters, Delilah Pierce, Georgette Seabrooke Powell, Mavis Pusey, Helen Evans Ramsaran, Faith Ringgold, Lucille (Malkia) Roberts, Betye Saar, Jewel Simon, Mei-Tei-Sing Smith, Joan C. Stephens, Alma Thomas, Mildred Thompson, Phyllis Thompson, Bertie Wiggs, Roberta Wolfe, and Theresa India Young.