“A History of Artist-Run Organizations” by Judy Moran
Judy Moran, Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times, Richard Alpert, 80 Langton Street, New Langton Arts, San Francisco Art Dealers Association, Jacki Apple, Art in America, Lawrence Alloway, Ruth Iskin, The New Artspace, Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art, LAICA, Womanspace, Houston Center for Photography, Public Art Works, Women and Their Work, Beyond Baroque, P.S. 122, Headlands Center for the Arts, High Performance, Heresies, Artists Space, Committee for the Visual Arts, National Endowment for the Arts, NEA, Extraordinary Support for Artists Organizations, ESAO, Susan Sontag, Illness as Metaphor, George Lodge, James Gleick, Chaos Making a New Science, Vaclav Havel, Disturbing the Peace, Arthur Schlesinger Jr, Cycles of American History, William Graham Sumner, Roberto Bedoya, National Council for the Arts, MacArthur Foundation, Galleria de la Raza, Studio 24, Beacon Street Gallery and Theatre, Women's Counseling Center, Ralph Reed, Pat Robertson, Christian Coalition, Randolph Street Gallery, RSG, National Performance Network, NPN, Work Paper II Arts Boards Myths Perspectives and New Approaches, Quiet Crisis Report, Alvin Toffler, Powershift, College of Marin
“X12: One of the first off-shoots of the contemporary women's art movement…” by Vernita Nemec, Womanart Magazine, Summer 1976
Museum A Project for Living Artists, Cindy Nemser, Carolyn Mazzello, Agnes Denes, Silvianna, Silvianna Goldsmith, Lil Picard, Lawrence Alloway, Emily Genauer, Bob Levin, Nanette Ranone, Lois di Cosola, Iris Crump, Mary Ann Gillies, Helene Gross, Doloris Holmes, Inverna Lockpez, Arline Lederman, Doris O'Kane, Alida Walsh, X12, WomanArt, Art Workers Coalition, AWC, Women Artists in Revolution, WAR, Ad Hoc Women's Committee, SoHo 20, Second Story Spring Street Society, White Mask Theater, Artists Space, Rabinovitch & Guerra, CAPS, Graz Museum, Museum of Modern Art, Women Artists of America 1707-1964, Newark Museum, Mount Holyoke Celebrating the Coming of Age of Women as Creative Artists, Mount Holyoke, Women's International, New York
“Near Contact” by David Joselit and Amy Lien & Enzo Camacho, published by Common Practice New York, 2016
David Joselit, Amy Lien, Enzo Camacho, Matthew Shen Goodman, Miriam Katzeff, Common Practice New York, Artists Space, Printed Matter, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Museum of Modern Art, Whitney Museum, Guggenheim Museum, New York Public Library, Lawrence Weiner, A.I.R. Gallery, Adam Weinberg, Judson Church, Rhea Anastas, Katherine Brewer Ball, Ralph Lemon, Stephen Levin, Park MacArthur, Nadja Millner-Larsen, Andrea Fraser, Lise Soskolne, Working Artists and the Greater Economy, W.A.G.E., Sabrina Blaichman, Neringa Černiauskaitė, Andrew Kachel, Clara Lopez, Cloé Perrone, Carla Acevedo-Yates, Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College, CCS Bard, Bard College, Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Lambent Foundation, VIA Art Fund, New York City, Manila, Singapore
A Guide to Defunct Artist-Run Spaces, DC Edition. Edited by Natalie Campbell,Blair Murphy and Paddy Johnson, October 2017
Paddy Johnson, Blair Murphy, Natalie Campbell, Art F City, Beltway Public Works, BPW, Washington Project for the Arts, WPA, Museum of Temporary Art, MOTA, Civilian Art Projects, Jayme McLellan, Victoria Reis, Transformer, Decatur Blue, José Ruiz, Ryan Hackett, Javier Cuellar, Champ Taylor, Brian Balderston, Gabriel Martinez, Delicious Spectacle, Victoria Greising, Megan Mueller, Dan Perkins, Camden Place, Sam Scharf, FCDC, FightClub, Nick Pimentel, Lisa Garfield, Jason Conny, Anthony Smallwood, Dan Zeman, Jennifer Kessler, Stephanie Murdoch, FLEX, Calder Brannock, Billy Friebele, Jonathan Monaghan, Michael Dax Iacovone, Hardart, Rogelio Maxwell, Janet Schmuckal, The Hosiery, Gold Leaf Studios, Market 5 Gallery, John W. Harrod, Mott's Market Art, NoMüNoMü, Nora Mueller, Joseph Orzal, Outer Space, Chandi Kelley, Frank Adams, PASS Gallery, Richard Siegman, Pleasant Plains Workshop, Kristina Bilonick Royer, Porch Projects, Mariah Anne Johnson, Signal 66, Steve Lewis, Pat Rogan, Eric Gravely, John Figura, Space 4, Somewhere in Trinidad, Ray Hennessy, Sneak Preview, David Bethuel Jamieson, Maureen Leak, Peter Stebbins, The Warehouse, Molly Ruppert, Paul Ruppert, Washington Women's Arts Center, WWAC, Barbara Frank, Richard Squires, Marta Minujin, Alice Denney, Howard Finster, Bad Brains, Arlington Arts Center, Torpedo Factory, Capitol Hill Arts Workshop, DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities, DC Redevelopment Land Agency, RLA, Pennsylvania Avenue Development Corporation, PADC, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Eastern Market, Blagden Alley, Dupont Circle, Howard University, Kennedy Center, Hirshhorn Museum, Phillips Collection, National Museum of Women in the Arts, Kresge Foundation, Washington Convention Center, Gallaudet University, Catholic University, George Mason University, American University, Washington DC
Jim Melchert, Director of the NEA Visual Arts Program, Annual Report 1980
Memo from Mary Hayter to Senator Heinz about Annie Sprinkle, April 1990
“Ministry of Truth: The Trump administration turned the federal government into an arbiter of truth… a group of artists and researchers fought back,” by Anita Little, ACLU Magazine, Spring 2026
Marta Martínez, Rhode Island Latino Arts, RILA, National Queer Theater, Theater Offensive, National Endowment for the Arts, NEA, Vera Eidelman, David Cole, William Smith, Sandra Day O'Connor, NEA v. Finley, Trinity Repertory Company, Providence, First Amendment, Administrative Procedure Act, Executive Order 14168, Criminal Queerness Festival
“The Art Workers’ Coalition: not a history” by Lucy Lippard, Studio International Journal, November 1970
Art Workers' Coalition, AWC, Lucy Lippard, School of Visual Arts, Museum of Modern Art, MOMA, Jean Toche, Jon Hendricks, Poppy Johnson, Guerrilla Art Action Group, Artists Tenants Association, Kestutis Zapkus, Hilton Kramer, Don Judd, Donald Judd, Carl Andre, Ad Reinhardt, Richard Artschwager, Robert Smithson, Philip Leider, Richard Serra, Takis, Vassilakis, Artists and Writers Protest, Art Strike, Soho Artists Association, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Whitney Museum, Guggenheim Museum, Jewish Museum, Black Panthers, Chicago Seven, My-Lai
Lunch with Justice Scalia: A Liberal Artist Meets a Conservative Judge for Lunch by Sara Kellner
Edward Jones' Masters Thesis, “Perspectives: The Emergence of the Artists' Space Movement,” December 1984
Edward Jones, Irving Kaufman, Jacob Rothenberg, City College of New York, City University of New York, Jacki Apple, Billy Apple, Jeffrey Lew, Holly Solomon, Horace Solomon, Richard Nonas, Jene Highstein, Stefan Eins, Willoughby Sharp, Martha Wilson, Claire Copley, Gordon Matta-Clark, Alanna Heiss, Suzanne Harris, Jerry Vis, Bill Beirne, Carol Parkinson, Tina Girouard, Martha Wilson, Trudie Grace, Linda Shearer, Jock Reynolds, Joy Silverman, Brian O'Doherty, Thomas Hut, Henry Geldzahler, Phillip Glass, Joseph Kosuth, Richard Landry, Kynaston McShine, James Rosenquist, Marcia Tucker, Lucy Lippard, Sol LeWitt, Carl Andre, Jean Cassou, Hilton Kramer, Linda Nochlin, Joan Jeffri, Sally Webster, Lacy Davisson, Lynne Warren, Robyn Brentano, Mary Delahoyd, Bob Smith, Alfred Stieglitz, New York State Council on the Arts, National Endowment for the Arts, Committee for the Visual Arts, Artists Space, 112 Greene Street, 98 Greene Street, 3 Mercer, Apple, Franklin Furnace, Franklin Furnace Archive, Institute for Art and Urban Resources, P.S. 1, Center for New Art Activity, Fashion Moda, Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art, LAICA, Holly Solomon Gallery, Copley Gallery, Avalanche Magazine, New Museum, New York University, Los Angeles, New York, Chicago, SoHo, Bronx, Fluxus, Experiments in Art and Technology, Hyde Park Art Center, Judson Memorial Church, Photo Secession Gallery, Momentum
WORKS (San Jose, CA) Organizational Brochure
Lawndale (Houston, TX) Newsletter, July 1979
Lawndale Annex, University of Houston, James Surls, George Bunker, Gail Stack, David Hickman, Don Woodman, Ed Hill, Don Marshall, Contemporary Art Center, New Orleans, Keith Ferris, Trinity House Co-op Gallery, Austin, Linda Surls, Dallas Womens Co-op, Dallas, Clyde Connell, Greater Gator Group, Roberto Molina, Houston, Luanne Stovall, Galveston, Bert Long
Information and Correspondence from the Institute of Contemporary Art at the Virginia Museum, 1979
Correspondence from 1708 EAST MAIN to other alternative space galleries, October 1978
San Francisco Bay Area Artists’ Organizations List, a Project of the NAAO San Francisco Caucus
NAAO New Member Letters & Renewal Letters, various years
Robin Drummond, Portland Center for the Visual Arts, Claire Copley, Charlotte Murphy, Hudson, Jessica Cusick, MK Wegmann, Judy Moran, Inverna Lockpez, Louise Shaw, Lynn Schuette, Marilyn Arsem, David Avalos, Centro Cultural de la Raza, Claudia Barker, Gere Baskin, Detroit Focus, Jackie Battenfield, Rotunda Gallery, Sherman Fleming, Washington Project for the Arts, WPA, Biff Henrich, Hallwalls, C.E.P.A, Alan Millar, Lab Art Re Grup, Michael Peranteau, Diverse Works, Judith Thorpe, Society for Photographic Education, Susan Wyatt, Artists' Space, Nexus Contemporary Art Center, INTAR, Susan Born-Ozment, John Frohnmayer, Jesse Helms, Dick Armey, Helms Amendment, National Campaign for Freedom of Expression, Pat Williams, Don Adams, Arlene Goldfarb, Alliance for Cultural Democracy, Glen Harper, Art Papers, Michelle Wallace, Vince Leo, Penny Boyer, Mary Drayton-Hill, New Works Collaborative Touring Program, Organizing Artists, Helen Brunner, Don Russell, Minneapolis, Austin, Buffalo, Los Angeles, LACE
NAAO Membership Meeting at Houston Conference, 1985 - Minutes
NAAO Board Meeting at Houston Conference, 1985 - Minutes
Hudson, Judy Moran, Jessica Cusick, Biff Henrich, Carlos Martinez, Louise Shaw, Ruby Lerner, Michael Perri, Lynn Schuette, Ariel Dougherty, Susan Wyatt, Sue Schroeder, MK Wegmann, Jeanne Hollenbeck, Don Russell, Joy Silverman, Joseph Sanchez, Claire Copley, Robin Drummond, Charlotte Murphy, Michael Peranteau, David White, Renny Pritikin, Jean Murakami, Sylvia Orozco, Richard Andrews, Gary Nickard, Feature Gallery, Chicago, New Langton Arts, San Francisco, Artists Space, New York, Women's Studio Workshop, Rosendale, Art and Distance, Houston, Maryland Art Place, Baltimore, Dance Theater Workshop, CEPA Gallery, Buffalo, Nexus Contemporary Art Center, Atlanta, Alternate Roots, Bay Area Association of Artists Organizations, BAAO, National Endowment for the Arts, NEA, Equitable Life Assurance Society, National Performance Network, Hammarskjold Sculpture Garden, Mexic-Arte, Austin, Pennsylvania State Arts Council, IBM, Open Dialogue II, San Antonio, Special Constituencies Committee, National Directory of Artists Organizations, Sushi, San Diego
NAAO Founding Members List
Contemporary Art Institute of Detroit, Columbus, Ohio Foundation on the Arts, Contemporary Art Workshop, Chicago, Columbia University Arts Administration, New York, Sushi, San Diego, Zone, Springfield, C.A.G.E., Cincinnati, La Mamelle, Art Com, San Francisco, Mary Luft, Tigertail Productions, Miami, Southern Exposure Gallery, El Sama, Ybor City, College of the San Francisco Art Institute, Movimento Artistico del Rio Salado, MARS, Scottsdale, Creative Time, Portland Center for the Visual Arts, Portland, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, Rising Sun Media Arts Center, Santa Fe, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, LACE, Los Angeles, New Harmony Gallery of Contemporary Art, New Harmony, Pro Arts, Oakland, Artists Production Press, Chicago Books, New York, CEPA Gallery, Buffalo, Hallwalls, Arts in Mesa, AIM, Mesa, San Francisco Camerawork, Atlanta Art Papers, Atlanta, Individual Artists of Oklahoma, Oklahoma City, Valley Art Guild, Sharon, Big River Association, Saint Louis, Artist's Network, Washington, Pyramid Arts Center, Rochester, Washington Project for the Arts, WPA, Harlem Exhibition Space, Real Art Ways, Hartford, NAME Gallery, A.R.E., Fondo Del Sol Visual Arts Media Center, River Center for the Arts, New Hope, PS 122 Association, Performance Gallery of San Francisco, Oberlin Dance Collective, Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans, 80 Langton Street Corporation, Artists Space, Committee for the Visual Arts, Lill Street Gallery, ARC Gallery, ARC Gallery Educational Foundation, Espace DBD, ABC No Rio, Painted Bride Art Center, Philadelphia, LAICA, Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art, Chicago Artists Coalition, Ten on Eight, Kansas City Artists Coalition, Urban Institute for Contemporary Arts, UICA, Grand Rapids, Women's Art Registry of Minnesota, WARM, Minneapolis, Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Collaborative Projects, Detroit Focus, Detroit, Center for Book Arts, 1708 East Main, Richmond, Washington Women's Art Center, The New Museum, Art Across the Park, Franklin Furnace, Astro Artz, High Performance, Marcia Plevin Productions, Loft Space, Winston Salem, The Upstairs, Tryon, Bookspace, Association of Artist Run Galleries, Foundation for Art Resources, Cityarts Workshop, Printed Matter, Self Help Graphics, Desire Productions, Baltimore, Sun Valley Center for the Arts and Humanities, Sun Valley, Artists Alliance, Tampa, Sculpture Space, Utica, Group Material, Nexus, Video Data Bank, Heresies Collective, The Kitchen, Center Gallery, Chapel Hill, Fashion Moda, Bronx, Eyes and Ears Foundation, EEF, P. Dora Gallery, Providence, Women and Their Work, Austin, The Light Factory, Charlotte, Organization of Independent Artists, Plane Notion, Santa Monica, ANNPAC, RACA, Toronto, Public Art Fund, Casa Aboy, Colician de Artistes, Puerto Rico, On the Boards, Seattle, Exit Art, Visual Studies Workshop, Florida Department of State Division of Cultural Affairs, Marsha Orr, Tallahassee, Works San Jose, San Jose, Claire Copley, And/Or, Artemisia Gallery, Artemisia Fund, Sheldon Atovsky, Catskill Center for Photography, Woodstock, Communicationsphere, Cambridge, Context Gallery, The Drawing Center, Karen Finley, Foundation for Today's Art, Nexus, Laguna Gloria Art Museum, Robert McGinnis, New Music Chicago, Randolph Street Gallery, Rotunda Gallery, Brooklyn, Delaware Center for Contemporary Arts, Wilmington, Spaces, Cleveland
NAAO Membership List (by region), May 1985
A.R.E., Astro Artz, High Performance, CalArts, California Confederation of the Arts, CCA, Terry Ellis, Espace DBD, Eyes and Ears Foundation, EEF, Falkirk Community Cultural Center, FCCC, Foundation for Arts Resources, FAR, Anne Focke, Friends of Photography, Friends of Support Services for the Arts, South of Market Culture Center, Dennis Hudson, Installation Gallery, La Mamelle, Art Com, Landmark Art Projects, L.A. Artcore, Los Angeles Center for Photographic Studies, LACPS, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, LACE, Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Arts, LAICA, New Langston Arts, New Performance Gallery of San Francisco, Nine One One, On the Boards, Portland Center for the Visual Arts, PCVA, Pro Arts, Kathryn Reasoner, San Francisco Camerawork, Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum, SBCAF, Self Help Graphics, SHG, Southern Exposure Gallery, Stained Glass Window Association of Hawaii, Sushi, The Women's Building, Works San Jose, Aritzlan, Art and Distance, Art League of Houston, ALH, Art Account, Arts in Mesa, AIM, The Center for Contemporary Arts in Santa Fe, D-Art Visual Arts Center, Diverse Works, Dianne Glenn, Jeanne Hollenbeck, Houston Center for Photography, HCP, Houston Women's Caucus for Art, HWCA, Individual Artists of Oklahoma, IAO, Laguna Gloria Art Museum, LGAM, Lawndale, Mexic-Arte, Midtown Art Center, Movimento Artistico del Rio Salaso, MARS, Open Door Arts Cooperation, Joe Rodriguez, Salt Lake Art Center, SLAC, Southwest Craft Center, Sun Valley Center for the Arts and Humanities, Texas Fine Arts Association, TFAA, Women and Their Work, Xicanindo, Detroit Focus, Herron Gallery, Hudson, John Michael Kohler Arts Center, JMKAC, Lill Street Gallery, Minnesota Artists Exhibition Program, Minnesota Institute of Arts, MIA, Muskegon Fine Arts Guild, N.A.M.E. Gallery, NAME Gallery, New Harmony Gallery of Contemporary Art, NOVA, Opportunities for the Arts, Ohio Foundation on the Arts, Ox Bow, Michael Perri, Plane Notion, The Popular Arts Workshop, Randolph Street Gallery, The Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago, Frank Salantrie, Spaces, St. Paul Art Collective, Urban Institute for Contemporary Arts, UICA, Video Data Bank, VDB, Visual Arts Information Service, Wisconsin Painters and Sculptors, Women's Art Registry of Minnesota, WARM, American Jewish Art Club, AJAC, Sally Anderson, ARC Gallery, Educational Foundation, Artemesia Gallery, Artists Gallery, Artists Services, United Arts Council, UAC, Beacon Street Gallery, Hull House, Bookspace, C.A.G.E., CAGE, The Center for New Television, CNT, Chicago Artists Coalition, CAC, The Chicago Society of Artists, Suzanne Cohan, Contemporary Arts Center of Detroit, CACD, Contemporary Art Workshop, CAW, The Detroit Artists Market, DAM, Jan Garden Castro, Big River Association, BRA, Lynn Kearney, Michael Perri, Staten Island Council on the Arts, SICA, The Studio in a School Association, Soho Television, The Artists Television Network, White Columns, Franklin Furnace, Group Material, Janet Goldner, Henry Street Settlement, The Heresies Collective, Independent Curators, ICI, Intar Latin American Gallery, Henry Korn, The Kitchen, Les Levine, Barbara Ann Levy, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, LMCC, Margo Machida, The New Museum, Organization of Independent Artists, OIA, Printed Matter, Public Art Fund, PAF, Real Life Magazine, Walter Robinson, Art in America, Ann Rosenthal, The Rotunda Gallery, Linda Shearer, Architectron, ABC No Rio, Artists Space, Arts Across the Park, The Association of Artist-Run Galleries, Nancy Azara, Barking Dog Museum, Center for Occupational Hazards, Chicago Books, Artists Production Press, City Arts Workshop, Collaborative Projects, Kiki Smith, Community Gallery, The Brooklyn Museum, Claire Copley, Creative Time, Jessica Cusick, Dance Theatre Workshop, DTW, The Drawing Center, Exit Art, Fashion Moda, Karen Finley, The Little Flags Theatre Foundation, Ian MacFarlane, Maryland Art Place, MAP, The Mattress Factory, MOBIUS, Naked Feet, National Artists Equity Association, NAEA, The Open Studio, Painted Bride Art Center, Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, PCA, Pioneer Crafts Council, Touchstone Crafts Council, Prints in Progress, Project, Pyramid Arts Center, Real Art Ways, RAW, Sculpture Space, Spring Garden Music, Tomorrow's Art World Center, U.S. Committee of the International Association of Art, Valley Art Guild, Visual Studies Workshop, VSW, Washington Project for the Arts, WPA, Washington Women's Art Center, WWAC, Women's Studio Workshop, WSW, The Writer's Center, Zone, Artists Alliance, Art Papers, Arts on the Park, Casa Aboy, Colicion de Artists, Center Gallery, City of Atlanta Bureau of Cultural Affairs, Contemporary Arts Center, El Sama, Kim Irwin, Nabil Kanso, The Light Factory, Robert McGinnis, Marsha Orr, Nexus, Barbara Schreiber, Second Street Gallery, 1708 East Main, Tigertail Productions, Mary Luft Co., The Upstairs, Alternate Roots, A. Salon, Jackie Bailey, Boston Visual Arts Union, BVAU, Marilyn Boyd de Reggi, The Brandywine Graphics Workshop, BGW, M.C. Carolyn, The Catskill Center for Photography, C.E.P.A. Gallery, CEPA, Clayspace, Communicationsphere, Desire Productions, District Curators, Richard Freeman, Lucine Ann Folgueras, The Artists Foundation, Fondo del Sol, Foundation for Today's Art, Nexus, Andrew Gillis, Hallwalls, Biff Henrich, Hispanic Institute for the Performing Arts, HIPA, Institute of Contemporary Art University of Pennsylvania, ICA