Insurgent Muse : Life and Art at the Women's Building

by Wolverton, Terry

• ISBN13: 9780872864030
• ISBN10: 0872864030
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-10-01
• Publisher: City Lights Books

Summary

In the 1970s, the West Coast feminist art movement coalesced around the Woman's Building in Los Angeles, founded by artist Judy Chicago. Arriving as a young art student in 1976, Terry Wolverton stayed on to become a teacher and co-founder of the Lesbian Art Project, and eventually, executive director. Her journey-emblematic of many women who sought to redefine themselves in the light of feminism-entails confrontation with the damages of sexism, the pitfalls of utopian community, and the forces of social backlash. Terry Wolverton is the author of the novel Bailey's Beads, two collections of poetry, Black Slip and Mystery Bruise. She has also edited numerous anthologies of gay and lesbian fiction, including His and Hers (Vols I-III).

Author Biography

Since 1976 Terry Wolverton has lived in Los Angeles, where she provides management consultation and coaching to arts organizations, small businesses, and individual artists. Terry has taught creative writing for over twenty years; in 1997, she founded Writers At Work, a center for creative writing in Los Angeles, where she offers several weekly workshops in fiction and poetry. She is the recipient of numerous awards for her artistic and community contributions, and is a certified instructor of Kundalini Yoga.

Table of Contents

Introduction	xiii
Requiem, 1995	1	(8)
Resurrection, 1976	9	(18)
Feminist Education, 1976--1977	27	(30)
Lesbian Art: A Partial Inventory, 1977--1980	57	(40)
Performativity, 1978--1986	97	(26)
Recovery in Four Movements, 1979--1989	123	(44)
Survival, 1981--1987	167	(30)
The Vortex, 1987--1991	197	(38)
Medicine, 2001	235