[3] Inspired by ideas presented at the 1972 Conference of Women in the Visual Arts at the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Katharine Butler, Barbara Frank, Janis Goodman, Sarah Hyde, and Ann Leffler Slayton and Josephine Withers founded WWAC.
In 1985 Cusick and WWAC participated in the Focus International held in Nairobi as part of the World Conference on Women, 1985.
[8][4] The Washington Printmakers Gallery originated with a group of artists meeting at WWAC.
[9][10] In 2018 the American University Museum held a retrospective exhibition of WWAC entitled Latitude: The Washington Women's Arts Center 1975-1987.
[11] Also in 2018, as a companion to the Latitude exhibition, Lucy Blankstein and Ellouise Schoettler interviewed over a dozen WWAC alumni.