A Celebration of Women Writers
Enormous list of writers, some annotated, some with links. Website: digital.library.upenn.edu/women
Art in Context
Cross-references visual artists with gallery and museum information. Displays images. Searchable by nationality, genre, period, gender. Website: www.artincontext.com
Asian American Women Artists Association
San Francisco Bay Area organization that lists visual artist members alphabetically, with a page for each. Website: www.aawaaart.com
Crossing the Threshold
Celebrating the strength and resolve of thirty-two women artists, ranging in age from 70 to 95 years, who have persevered throughout the twentieth century and created a visual legacy
for the future millennia. Website: www.albany.edu/museum/wwwmuseum/crossing/crossing.htm
Daughters of the Dust
Julie Dash’s web site listing African-American women filmmakers who have influenced her and including A Filmography of Black Women Independent Film and Video Makers Compiled by John Williams published in Black Scholar, Vol. 25, No. 2. (Contact Robert Allen, Senior Editor) Website: geechee.tv/index1.html
International Centre for Women Playwrights
Lists some of their members, alphabetically, with links to web sites or other contact information. Website: www.womenplaywrights.org
IRIS International Centre of Women in Photography
Alphabetical registry of women photographers, with imagery and resumes. Website: http://www.irisphoto.org/
The National Museum of Women in the Arts
Extensive website with two databases:
The Archives on Women Artists
Includes over 18,000 research files on women artists from all time periods and nationalities, including artists’ resumes, correspondence, exhibition catalogues, reproductions, and reviews. Website: http://www.nmwa.org/library/archives.asp
Clara
Interactive database with biographical information about over 18,000 women visual artists from all time periods and nationalities. Website: http://www.nmwa.org/clara
Native American Women Playwrights Archive
Each playwright’s page lists her plays in NAWPA’s archive, other works, and contact information. Website: http://staff.lib.muohio.edu/nawpa/
North American Women’s Drama
A for-sale on-line database of 1,500 plays by women, extensively indexed, published by Alexander Street. Website: www.alexanderstreetpress.com/products/wodr.htm
Playwrights on the Web
An alphabetical listing of women and men that is not searchable in other ways. Playwrights have one-line descriptions of their work and a link to their site or a contact email. Website: http://www.stageplays.com/static/sign_up_to_playwrights_on_the_web/?writers.htm
Rainbow Artists
A New Mexico-based, multiracial, multicultural, multigenerational collective organized to support and promote women artists, primarily in the visual arts. The Rainbow Artists collective believes that through support and association, women artists are able to enhance their productivity and creativity. Website: www.rainbowartists.com
The Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art at the Brooklyn Museum
The Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art is an exhibition and education facility dedicated to feminist art—its past, present, and future. It is part of the Brooklyn Museum and it is the permanent home of Judy Chicago’s The Dinner Party. They have a Feminist Timeline at: www.brooklynmuseum.org/eascfa/feminist_timeline/ and the Feminist Art Base at www.brooklynmuseum.org/eascfa/feminist_art_base/index.php. The Feminist Art Base is the first online digital archive dedicated solely to feminist art. This ever-growing database offers profiles from some of the most prominent and promising contributors to feminist art from the 1960s to the present. Each profile includes multiple images, video and audio clips, short biographies, CVs, and “Feminist Artist Statements.”
Secondsight
Washington, DC-based group that supports women photographers at every stage in their careers, from students to professionals. The organization holds bi-monthly meetings in Bethesda , MD which include an opportunity for each artist to share her portfolio and receive constructive criticism. Additionally, each artist is given the opportunity of having an online portfolio of her work.
Website: www.secondsightdc.com
Sisters in Cinema – African American Feature Film Directors
Alphabetical listing, with links to a commercial site where the film is described and for sale on video or DVD. Website: www.sistersincinema.com/index.html
Varo Registry – Women Visual Artists
Alphabetical list of visual artists that links to a page with samples of the artist’s work. Some pages have artistic statements and contact information. Website: www.varoregistry.com
Voices from the Gaps: Women Writers of Color
Hosted by the University of Minnesota. Website: voices.cla.umn.edu
Women in Photography International
Alphabetical listing with links to artists’ own web sites. Website: www.womeninphotography.org/wipihome.html
Women’s Institute for Freedom of the Press
Alphabetical list of women’s theatre and art groups. Website: www.wifp.org/DWM/TheatreArt.html
Women of Color, Women of Words
Site dedicated to African-American women playwrights, with full biographies, play list, production history, a featured play with an excerpt, and an extensive bibliography. Website: www.scils.rutgers.edu/~cybers/home.html
The World’s Women Online!
An international database originally developed by visual artists at the 1995 Beijing conference. Now lists over 1,000 artists, searchable by artist, country, and medium. Website: wwol.is.asu.edu/stage.htm