LINKS
The National Museum of Women in the Arts
www.nmwa.org
The National Museum of Women in the Arts brings recognition to the achievements of women artists of all periods and nationalities by exhibiting, preserving, acquiring, and researching art by women and by teaching the public about their accomplishments. To fulfill its mission, the museum cares for and displays a permanent collection, presents special exhibitions, conducts education programs, maintains a Library and Research Center, publishes a quarterly magazine and books on women artists and supports a network of state and international committees.
The Library and Research Center
NMWA also serves as a center for the performing and literary arts and other creative disciplines. The Library and Research Center of the NMWA aims to educate and inform the public about the contributions of women to the visual arts by sharing its resources with library users and visitors. The Library's resources include more than 18,500 books and exhibition catalogues, periodicals, multi-media resources and artists' books, along with the Archives on Women Artists and a number of special collections, including artists' papers. Clara: database of Women Artists provides access through a user-friendly, searchable interface to biographic and demographic information on close to 18,000 historic and contemporary women artists from around the world.
The New Hall Art Collection
(part of New Hall, a women's college of the University of Cambridge)
www.art.newhall.cam.ac.uk
This Collection of artwork by women has been fortunate from its foundation in receiving a few valuable donations and loans of works of art, but a new development began in 1986 when we were able to acquire, with the generous help of the Eastern Arts Association and of the artist herself, Mary Kelly's work Extase, following her stay as artist-in-residence at New Hall and Kettle's Yard. It spurred us to hope that it might be the nucleus of a permanent collection of twentieth century art by distinguished women artists.
By the generosity of over a hundred artists (and offers are still coming in) the College has gathered for permanent display a collection which is already providing enormous interest and pleasure to all who see it. By virtue of its size and specialisation the collection bids fair to be regarded as unique in this country and it is being visited, consulted, written about and photographed by art historians and others excited by the talent and originality displayed by so many contemporary women artists.
South London Women Artists
www.southlondonwomenartists.co.uk
South London Women Artists is a new website, open and free, where women artists can post a profile of their work. It was launched in late April by Friends of Dulwich Picture Gallery.
Inspired by the wealth of women artists in the area, South London Women Artists decided to offer a website where women artists living or working in the Gallery area, that is in the boroughs of Lambeth, Southwark and Lewisham, can display three images of their work, publicise themselves with an artist's profile and provide a contact address. The website features over 20 artists and attracts regular enquiries from artists wishing to add their profiles.
The Women's Library
www.londonmet.ac.uk/thewomenslibrary
The Women's Library exists to document and explore women's lives in Britain in the past, present and future, and houses the most extensive resource for women's history in the UK. It was originally established in 1926, as the Library of the London Society for Women's Service, the successor of the London women's suffrage organisation led by Millicent Fawcett.
The Women's Library today incorporates a Reading Room for the consultation of printed materials, archives, and museum collections, an exhibition hall, and education and events facilities. It aims to inspire learning and debate on issues that concern women for the benefit of all and is an internationally renowned resource, available to everyone, for women's history research.
The Birds Eye Women's Film Festival
www.birds-eye-view.co.uk
Birds Eye View celebrates and supports international women filmmakers. Founded as a short film event in 2002, it became a charity in 2004, launched the UK’s first major women’s film festival in 2005, and is now developing an all-year-round activity with the First Weekenders Club, BEV Labs, touring programme and online community.