Women's Graphic Center

The Women's Graphic Center (WGC) was a print workshop located in the Woman's Building in Los Angeles, California. It was founded in 1973 by Sheila Levrant de Bretteville.^[1] Susan E. King was the artistic director and Sue Maberry was the business manager.^[2] The workshop provided the tools for typesetting, printing, and bookbinding.^[3] The center had equipment for offset lithography, letterpress printing and silkscreen printing.^[4] The WGC had exhibition space, as well as offering classes and renting studio time.^[5] The WGC evolved into the Women's Graphic Center Typesetting and Design, a business providing design and printing service. It closed in 1991 along with The Woman's Building.^[6]

The archives of the workshop are in the Archives of American Art at the Smithsonian Institution.^[7] and the Los Angeles Public Library.^[5]

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v t e Feminist art movement in the United States
Feminist art movement Women artists
Precursors	American Association of University Women (1881) National Association of Women Artists (1889) New York School of Applied Design for Women (1892)
Venues or organizations	A.I.R. Gallery Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art (Brooklyn Museum) Feminist Art Coalition Hera Gallery Lesbian Art Project National Museum of Women in the Arts New York Feminist Art Institute SOHO20 Gallery tArt Collective Washington Women's Art Center Women Artists in Revolution (WAR) Women's Art Resources of Minnesota Woman's Building (Los Angeles) The Women's Building (San Francisco) Women's Graphic Center Women's Interart Center Women's Studio Workshop
Exhibitions or installations	Twenty Six Contemporary Women Artists (1971) Womanhouse (1972) Three Weeks in May (1977) The Sister Chapel (1974–1978) The Dinner Party (1979) WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution (2007)
Films or documentaries	!Women Art Revolution
Publications	Heresies: A Feminist Publication on Art and Politics (1977–1992) The Feminist Art Journal (1972–1977) Women Artists News {1975-1992) "Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists?" (1971)
Groups	subRosa Guerrilla Girls The Waitresses Women Artists in Revolution Women's Caucus for Art Where We At
Notable women	Alison Bechdel Lynda Benglis Louise Bourgeois Norma Broude Judy Chicago Elaine de Kooning Mary Beth Edelson Suzi Ferrer Helen Frankenthaler Mary Garrard Nancy Graves Eva Hesse Lila Katzen Jane Kaufman Lee Krasner Georgia O'Keeffe Barbara Kruger Louise Nevelson Yoko Ono M. C. Richards Rachel Rosenthal Carolee Schneemann Cindy Sherman Sylvia Sleigh Alma Thomas June Wayne
Lists	List of feminist artists Women in the art history field
Feminist movements and ideologies

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