The Waitresses unpeeled
Subtitle: performance art and life
By: Jerri Allyn and Anne Gauldin ; foreword, Suzanne Lacy ; essays, Marlena Doktorczyk-Donohue ... [et al.].
Contributors: Gauldin, Anne; Lacy, Suzanne; Doktorczyk-Donahue, Marlena; Maltz Gallery; Otis College of Art and Design; Pacific Standard Time (Exhibition)
Publisher: Ben Maltz Gallery, Otis College of Art and Design
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Los Angeles, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 130
ISBN-13: 9781466321441
Subjects: Exhibitions; Feminism and the arts; History; Women performance artists; Performance art; American Arts; Waitresses (Performance group)
Description: "The Waitresses is a collaborative performance art group founded in 1977 by Jerri Allyn and Anne Gauldin. Other members have included Leslie Belt, Patti Nicklaus, Denise Yarfitz, Jamie Wildperson, Chutney Gunderson, and Anne Mavor. Most of the artists met while attending the Feminist Studio Workshop at the Woman's Building in Los Angeles, California. They drew upon their own waitressing experiences and incorporated research about working women. They focused on five issues: work; money; sexual harassment; food production; and stereotypes of women/waitresses - mother, servant, sex object. Their work has been exhibited in cultural centers, universities, on billboards, and in museums. Out of the gallery and into restaurants and the streets, they performed in parades, conferences, buses, for the media, and in public sites internationally."--P. [4] of cover.
Notes: "This catalogue is published in conjunction with the exhibition Doin' It in Public: Feminism and Art at the Woman's Building, October 1, 2011-January 28, 2012, organized by the Ben Maltz Gallery at Otis College of Art and Design and supported by the Getty's initiative Pacific Standard Time: Art in L.A. 1945-1980."--T.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Foreword.; title: The Waitresses over time  -- Suzanne Lacy -- Essays.; title: The Waitresses in the context  -- Marlena Doktorczyk-Donohue ;; title: Awakening the sleeping goddess : Anne Gauldin's visionary journeys in search of women's empowered heritage  -- Gloria Feman Orenstein ;; title: The democratic art of Waitress Jerri Allyn : a chronicle of our conversations about art, consciousness, and activism  -- Carol McDowell ;; title: In the name of love : feminist art, the women's movement and history  -- Michelle Moravec; title: The Waitresses artifacts --; title: End matter ---- Exhibition checklist-- The Waitresses resume-- Biographies-- Acknowledgments.