Its initial service was a four-issue-per-year publication, the Art Workers Newsletter, which functioned as an open forum for the exchange of ideas and the dissemination of news items important to the trade.
Over the years, articles by leading artists, critics and educators, as well as information relating to health hazards,[2] legal and financial affairs, housing employment and exhibition spaces, appeared in its pages.
The Artists’ Community Federal Credit Union, as it was called, offered savings accounts, automatic payment of health insurance premiums, financial counseling and personal loans from $100 to $5,000.
Executive Directors included Peter Leggieri, David Milne, Melodie Begleiter, Jimmy Durham, Norma Munn and Cynthia Navaretta.
Other Board and Advisory Council positions were held by, among others, Abe Lubelski, Abu Kodoga, Alex Gross (Vice-President), Alida Walsh, Art Coppedge, Barbara Nessim, Benny Andrews, Bernard Brown (Treasurer/Chair), Betty Chamberlain, Carl Andre, Dan Concholar, Danielle DeMers (Treasurer/Secretary), David Lax, David Troy, Dawoud Bey, Ellen Greenberg, Elliot Barowitz (President/Chairperson), Lori Antonacci (Vice-President, 1984-1987), Gerhardt Liebmann, Hamish Sanderson, Harvey Horowitz, Howard Minsky, Ilene Astrahan, Jacqueline Skiles (Vice-President), Jane Barowitz, Jenny Dixon, John Hazak (Secretary), John Whitman, Jonathan Price, Joseph Farrell, Kenneth S. Freidman, Kerry Matz, Larry Rosing (Chair), Laurin Raiken (President), Louise Despert, Mark Faverman, Dr. Michael McCann, Michele Wallace, Morag Hann, P.V.
111–2, 118 (Dr. Michael McCann's research referenced) Ellegood, Anne, "Jimmie Durham: At the Center of the World," Hammer Museum, University of California, Los Angeles
3 (e-Book) Franklin Furnace: Archive of the Avant Garde Glueck, Grace, "Art People, The New York Times, March 25, 1977, p. 69 Gross, Alexander (2009).
6, September 1975 Kennedy, Shawn G., "For Fledgling Artists, A Place to Grow," The New York Times (national edition, June 18, 1986, p. C00012 Long, Harley, editor, Intermedia magazine, Issue No.
1 "Manifesto," Los Angeles and San Francisco (independent press), 1974 McCann, Michael, "The impact of hazards in art on female workers,"Preventive Medicine, Volume 7, Issue 3, September 1978, New York City, NY: Elsevier, pp.
338–348 Skiles, Jacqueline, “The National Art Workers' Community: Still Struggling,” Art Journal, Volume 34, Issue 4, 1975 Staff Writer, “Boston Artists See End For Real Estate Wars,” The New York Times, August 9, 1987 (Norma Munn, Executive Director of FCA, quoted) Unnamed author, reprinted from Christian Science Monitor, "Businesses Give Artists a Break — on Goods, Services", Los Angeles Times, May 7, 1989 WorldCat Identities