Press Releases Announcing the Founding of NAAO
“Life Beyond Survival: Building a National Network at the Second Conference of Alternative Spaces,” by Michael Bonesteel, New Art Examiner, June 1981
“Will the White House Become an Alternative Space?” by Kay Larson, Village Voice, June 5, 1978
“Jo-Anne Birnie Danzker Reconsidering Parallel Galleries,” author unknown, Vanguard, June-July 1978
Jo-Anne Birnie Danzker, Robert Smith, Bob Smith, Michael Asher, David Askevold, John Baldessari, Allan Kaprow, Geoffrey James, Glenn Lewis, Bill Kirby, Jessica Bradley, Ian Wallace, Russell Keziere, Brenda Wallace, Claude Gosselin, Peggy Gale, Clive Robertson, Marien Lewis, Michael Morris, Bob Stearns, Rosalee Goldberg, Brian Dyson, Babs Shapiro, Marcella Bienvenue, Peter Fraser, Tanya Rosenberg, James Pomeroy, Anne Focke, Janet Kardon, Alanna Heiss, Phil Patton, Kay Larson, Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art, LAICA, Association of National Non-Profit Artists Centres, ANNPAC, Canada Council, A Space, Artons, The Western Front, Art Metropole, CEAC, Winnipeg Art Gallery, Ontario Arts Council, The Kitchen, Parallelogramme, Parallelogramme Retrospective, Alberta College of Art, Shoestring Gallery, Clouds and Water, Galerie Media, Eighty Langton Street, Philadelphia College of Art, Institute for Art and Urban Resources, B.C. Cultural Fund, Strike magazine, Art in America, ARTnews, Vanguard, New Artsspace Conference, Santa Monica, Los Angeles, Calgary, Toronto, Vancouver, Winnipeg, Montreal, San Francisco, Seattle, New York, Philadelphia
“Is There Space for Alternatives? LAICA Conference,” by Virginia Hillix, New Art Examiner, June 1978
“A Clean, Well-Lighted Space” by Alice Steinbach, Cultural Post, July-August 1977
Alternative exhibition spaces, run by artists for artists, are helping the avant-garde go public
Workshops Alternative Spaces
The New Artsspace Conference, Los Angeles, 1978: LAICA Response Letter
Invitation for Anne Focke to attend NEA Visual Arts Alternative Spaces Meeting Called By Brian O’Doherty, October 6, 1976
“Clockwork conference forms Artspaces network, elects board” by Ann Markovich in the New Art Examiner, October 1982
NAAO Founding