Established in 1975, Women Artists Newsletter was published by Cynthia Navaretta,[1] with founding editor Judy Seigel,[2] under the Midmarch Associates imprint along with a staff of volunteer writers, photographers and graphic designers.
Functioning as a space for information exchange and communication for and among a community of women artists, the newsletter published books reviews, articles, museum and gallery listings, event listings, interviews, how-to information, and other assorted news related to art, feminism and women's issues.
[3] Contributors throughout the run of the publication included Isabel Case Borgatta,[4] Joyce Kozloff, Lil Picard, Miriam Schapiro, Sylvia Sleigh, Joan Snyder, Nancy Spero and May Stevens, many of whom were also affiliated with the feminist collective and journal Heresies.
[5] The archive, housed at the Smithsonian Archives of American Art, includes press releases, exhibition and events announcements, catalogs, posters, and newspaper clippings regarding women artists and organizations.
Photographs are of women's organizations, events and artists including Faith Ringgold, Susan Schwalb, Lowery Simms, Sari Dienes, Judy Seigel, Audrey Flack, and June Wayne, among others.