Women and Art Round Table (WomART)

Current Officers 2005-06 Sara MacDonald, Moderator Melanie Emerson, Vice-Moderator Jennifer Hehman, Column Editor Members List 2006 WomArt Blog WomArt Listserv Members Contributions articles, bibliographies & webliographies Related Internet Links Conference - Banff 2006 Annual Report Meeting Minutes	Statement of Purpose The Women and Art Round Table of ARLIS/NA is composed of members concerned with documenting women's contributions to the visual arts and ensuring that materials relating to women artists, curators, museum and gallery directors, educators, and collectors are accessible to libraries and visual collections. This round table focuses attention and bibliographic expertise on art scholarship from a multidisciplinary approach. Its goal is to help scholars rediscover women in the history of the visual arts and encourage librarians and visual resources curators to collect materials on women artists for their institutions. The history of the Women and Art Roundtable: The Roundtable was established in 1990. The original acronym was WaART, but was happily changed to WomART in 2001. The first moderators were Edith Crowe, 1990-91 and Sara MacDonald, 1992. Conference sessions of interest to, or sponsored by, the Women and Art Roundtable were: Houston 2005 - Oil Patch to Oil on Canvas: Four Texas Women Collectors New York City 2004 - Expanding the Canon: Women Collectors and the Arts - Sara Harrington, moderator, Sharon Wasserman and Susan Nurse, speakers St. Louis 2002 - Women Artists of St. Louis: Past and Present, - Laura Schwartz and Ellen Petraits, moderators Los Angeles 2001 - Contemporary Native American Art: Challenges for Artists, Curators, Scholars, Librarians, and Educators - Marilyn Russell-Bogle, speaker
Past Conferences 2005 Houston Annual Report Meeting Minutes 2004 New York City Annual Report Meeting Minutes 2003 Baltimore Annual Report Meeting Minutes 2002 St. Louis Annual Report Meeting Minutes 2001 Los Angeles Annual Report Meeting Minutes	Past Moderators 2005-2006 Sara MacDonald 2004-2005 Sara Harrington 2003-2004-Shannon Van Kirk 2002-2003-Eumie Imm-Stroukoff 2001-2002 Miguel Juarez 2000-2001 Laura Schwartz 1999-2000 Susan Nurse 1998-1999 Sara MacDonald 1997-1998 Bonnie Reed 1996-1997 Bonnie Reed 1995-1996 Liesel Nolan 1994-1995 Peggy Keeran 1993-1994 ? 1992-1993 Sara MacDonald 1991-1992 Edith Crow	WomART members in Los Angeles, 2001. Photograph by Miguel Juarez

Statement of Purpose

The Women and Art Round Table of ARLIS/NA is composed of members concerned with documenting women's contributions to the visual arts and ensuring that materials relating to women artists, curators, museum and gallery directors, educators, and collectors are accessible to libraries and visual collections.

This round table focuses attention and bibliographic expertise on art scholarship from a multidisciplinary approach. Its goal is to help scholars rediscover women in the history of the visual arts and encourage librarians and visual resources curators to collect materials on women artists for their institutions.

The history of the Women and Art Roundtable:
The Roundtable was established in 1990. The original acronym was WaART, but was happily changed to WomART in 2001. The first moderators were Edith Crowe, 1990-91 and Sara MacDonald, 1992.

Conference sessions of interest to, or sponsored by, the Women and Art Roundtable were:
   Houston 2005 - Oil Patch to Oil on Canvas: Four Texas Women Collectors
   New York City 2004 - Expanding the Canon: Women Collectors and the Arts - Sara Harrington, moderator,       Sharon Wasserman and Susan Nurse, speakers
   St. Louis 2002 - Women Artists of St. Louis: Past and Present, - Laura Schwartz and Ellen Petraits,       moderators
   Los Angeles 2001 - Contemporary Native American Art: Challenges for Artists, Curators, Scholars,       Librarians, and Educators - Marilyn Russell-Bogle, speaker