NAAO Organizational Brochure, 1984
“Orcas Conference” by Charlotte Murphy
National Performance Network (NPN), History by MK Wegmann
MK Wegmann, Renny Pritikin, Martha Wilson, Lyn Blumenthal, Anne Focke, Claire Copley, Renee Levine, Joan Jeffri, David White, John O'Neal, Linda Parris-Bailey, Ruby Lerner, Dudley Cocke, Bobbi Tsumagari, Loris Bradley, Holly Hughes, John Fleck, Karen Finley, Tim Miller, Peter Alexander, John Baldessari, Rosamund Felsen, Peter Plagens, Judy Spence, Kate Horsfield, Judy Moran, Joseph Celli, Pauline Oliveros, Mary Luft, Robert Mapplethorpe, National Performance Network, NPN, National Endowment for the Arts, NEA, Alternate ROOTS, Dance Theater Workshop, DTW, Contemporary Arts Center New Orleans, CAC, Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art, LAICA, New Langton Arts, Franklin Furnace, Video Data Bank, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, And/Or Gallery, Washington Project for the Arts, WPA, Rockefeller Foundation, Warhol Foundation, Ford Foundation, Highlander Center, Roadside Theater, Appalshop, National Campaign for Freedom of Expression, NCFE, New York Live Arts, Common Field, Southern Arts Exchange, Performing Arts Exchange, National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy, NCRP, Actors' Equity, New Artspaces, Beyond Survival, New Forms Regional Initiative, Expansion Arts Program, NEA Challenge Grant, Arts Money, The Emerging Arts, New Orleans, Los Angeles, New York, Chicago, Seattle, Atlanta, San Francisco, Whitesburg, alternative spaces, artist-led organizations, touring, cultural equity, racial equity, community-engaged art, cultural democracy, arts funding, Reagan administration, NEA Four, peer panels, multiculturalism, Economic Recovery Tax Act
“NEA V. Finley: A Decision in Search of A Rationale” by Lackland H. Bloom Jr. in Washington University Law Quarterly, 1999
Lackland Bloom, Karen Finley, John Fleck, Holly Hughes, Tim Miller, Robert Mapplethorpe, Andres Serrano, Sandra Day O'Connor, Antonin Scalia, David Souter, John Frohnmayer, Anne-Imelda Radice, Jesse Helms, Rohrabacher, Coleman, Seth Waxman, David Cole, Cass Sunstein, Owen Fiss, Kleinfeld, William Eskridge, Philip Frickey, Frederick Schauer, National Endowment for the Arts, NEA, National Council on the Arts, Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Southwest Center for Contemporary Art, Independent Commission, NEA v. Finley, Rosenberger v. University of Virginia, Rust v. Sullivan, Regan v. Taxation with Representation, R.A.V. v. City of St. Paul, FCC v. Pacifica Foundation, Cohen v. California, Texas v. Johnson, FCC v. League of Women Voters, Abood v. Detroit Board of Education, Piss Christ, The Perfect Moment, X Portfolio, First Amendment, viewpoint discrimination, unconstitutional conditions, arts funding, arts censorship, compelled speech, Section 954(d), decency, government subsidies
“Clockwork conference forms Artspaces network, elects board” by Ann Markovich in the New Art Examiner, October 1982
NAAO Founding
“Trying It Again at New Artspaces III” by Janet Ventura in High Performance Magazine, Fall 1982
Founding of NAAO
New Artspaces III Conference registrants participants
Harnessing the Power of Feminist Arts Organization, prepared by Joanne Sandler (principal author), Sara Gould, and Idelisse Malavés
Joanne Sandler, Sara Gould, Idelisse Malavé, Stacey Smith, Vanina Serra, Monica Enriquez Enriquez, Ruby Johnson, Amy Mannarino, Mara Kurlandsky, Rita Starpattern, Carol Taylor, Deanna Stevenson, Lenore DeKoven, Morna Murphy Mortell, Ariel Dougherty, Sheila Paige, Ann Kalmbach, Tatana Kellner, Anita Wetzel, Barbara Leoff Burge, Chris Cowden, Cynthia Lopez, Terry Lawler, Debra Zimmerman, Lauren Walling, Carolee Schneeman, Julie Dash, Dee Rees, Rachel Morrison, Crystal Emery, Lisa Jackson, Beili Liu, Abigail Disney, Barbara Kopple, Ellen Burstyn, Ellen Kuras, Sheila Nevins, Mira Nair, Christine Vachon, Thelma Schoonmaker, Pauline Kael, Sarah Jessica Parker, Laura Dern, Gabourey Sidibe, Robin Wright, Laura Garanzuay, Rachel Stuckey, Kelley McClure, Diane Sikes, Connie Arismendi, Simone Pero, Duana Butler, Tina DiFeliciantonio, Kristen Fitzpatrick, Jennifer Naylor, Kerry McCarthy, Erin Zona, Women's Arts Consortium, WAC, Women's Studio Workshop, WSW, Women Make Movies, WMM, New York Women in Film & Television, NYWIFT, Center for Women & Their Work, CW&TW, Ford Foundation, Society for International Development, University of Southern California, Media Diversity and Social Change Initiative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Library of Congress, New York Public Library, Museum of Modern Art, Foundation Center, Candid, International Documentary Association, Center for the Study of Women in Film and Television, Motion Picture Academy, feminist art, women in film, intersectionality, MeToo, Time's Up, MUSE Awards, artist residencies, Designing Women, Getting Real, Response to Hate, Women's Marches, 50/50 by 2020, Austin, New York
Congressman Pat Williams’ The Independent Commission: Testimony of the Legal Task Force, July 1990
Floyd Abrams, Michael McConnell, Henry Monaghan, Theodore Olson, Kathleen Sullivan, Pat Williams, Paul Henry, Dana Rohrabacher, Independent Commission, Legal Task Force, National Endowment for the Arts, NEA, Cahill Gordon and Reindel, University of Chicago Law School, Columbia University Law School, Gibson Dunn and Crutcher, Harvard University Law School, Committee on Education and Labor, Subcommittee on Postsecondary Education, National Council on the Arts, Federal Council on the Arts and Humanities, Corporation for Public Broadcasting, Kennedy Center, National Foundation on the Arts and Humanities, American Arts Alliance, American Council for the Arts, National Assembly of State Arts Agencies, National Assembly of Local Arts Agencies, American Association of Museums, Association of American Cultures, AFL-CIO Professional Employees in the Arts, Coalition of Writers Organizations, National Coalition for Education in the Arts, Creative Coalition, National Campaign for Freedom of Expression, Show Coalition, National Artist Equity Association, American Design Council, American Council for the Traditional Arts, National Alliance of Media Arts Centers, Miller v. California, Regan v. Taxation With Representation, FCC v. League of Women Voters, Speiser v. Randall, Advocates for Arts v. Thomson, Arkansas Writers' Project v. Ragland, First Amendment, obscenity, indecency, viewpoint discrimination, content restrictions, self-certification, selective funding, unconstitutional conditions, prior restraint, peer review, NEA reauthorization, Artistic Freedom: Our American Heritage, Williams Arts Group
Ariel Dougherty, Women’s Cultural Organizations & The NEA in the Early 1980s - Doc B
Ariel Dougherty, Olive Cheritree, Bob Carr, Pat Williams, Women's Studio Workshop, WSW, NEA, National Endowment for the Arts, NEH, National Endowment for the Humanities, Heritage Foundation, NAAO, National Association of Artists' Organizations, National Association of Women Artists, Museum of Modern Art, Hirshhorn Museum, Film Forum, Apple Computer, Congressional Arts Caucus, Women's Interart Center, Earth Onion Women's Theatre, Women Make Movies, Women's Community, Womenswork, Chrysalis Magazine, Feminist Press, Running Women Press, Camera Obscura, Feminist Radio Network, Women's Jazz Festival, Maine Association for Women in Film, Women's Legal Defense Fund, Women's Experimental Theatre, Art Resources Open to Women, Women's Caucus for the Arts, Women's Caucus for Art, Artemisia Fund, Hera Education Foundation, Women's Art Center, Heresies Collective, Midmarch Associates, Where We At Black Women Art, Gypsy Rainbow Dance Theater, Women's Resources, The Woman's Company, American Place Theatre, 13th Moon, New Victoria Publishers, Women Artist Filmmakers, Women in Film, Oakland Ensemble Theatre, Universal Jazz Coalition, Atlanta Women's Art Collective, Front Range, DC Slide Registry of Women Artists, Women in the Arts Foundation, Women In Design International, Creative Women's Collective, Olivia Records, Motion, At Foot of the Mountain, Spiderwoman Theatre, NY Feminist Art Institute, Women & Their Work, W.A.R.M., Concerted Effort, Pro Feminia Theatre, Calyx, TARTS, Teaching Artists To Reach Technological Savvy, Women's Work in Film & Video, Reauthorization of Foundation on the Arts and Humanities Act of 1985, women's cultural organizations, arts funding, NEA reauthorization, women in the arts, Congressional testimony, Women's Cultural Organizations and the NEA in the Early 1980s, New York, Los Angeles, Washington DC, Atlanta, Oakland, San Francisco, Brooklyn, Detroit, Minneapolis, Austin, Chicago, Boulder, Kansas City, Albany, Schenectady, Wakefield
Ariel Dougherty, Women’s Cultural Organizations & The NEA in the Early 1980s - Doc A
Ariel Dougherty, Women's Studio Workshop, WSW, NEA, National Endowment for the Arts, NEH, National Endowment for the Humanities, Heritage Foundation, The Woman's Building, Women's Graphic Center, National Association of Women Artists, TARTS, Teaching Artists To Reach Technological Savvy, United Women's Art Fund, Women's Work in Film & Video, women's cultural organizations, arts funding, NEA reauthorization, women in the arts, Los Angeles, Women's Cultural Organizations and the NEA in the Early 1980s
Kim Chan Remembers Celebrate 69
Kim Chan, Tim Miller, Holly Hughes, Karen Finley, John Fleck, Jan Rothschild, Charlotte Murphy, Bill Warrell, Penelope Boyer, Jim Epstein, Perry Jude, Alan Prokop, Debra Singer, Margaret Schnipper, Brian Tate, Tim Turner, Victoria Reis, Saied Azali, Finley, Hughes, Miller, Murphy, Washington Performing Arts, d.c. space, NAAO, National Association of Artists' Organizations, National Campaign for Free Expression, Washington Project for the Arts, WPA, 15 Minutes Club, Perrys Washington DC, Dance Place, National Gay and Lesbian Task Force, NGLTF, The DC Arts Center, DC Committee to Promote Washington, OUT/DC, Transformer, Siren Arts, Jacob's Pillow, The Kennedy Center, NEA Four, culture wars, free expression, censorship, Washington DC, Asbury Park
New Artspaces II: Beyond Survival, New Orleans, LA, 1981: Brochure mailer
“Prescription For a Healthy Art Scene” by Renny Pritikin
NAAO Untitled (Conference), Buffalo, NY, 1986: Agenda
OUT! T-Shirt: Fight for Homoerotic Art, Sexpression 1990
Celebrate 69: A Benefit for NAAO and the National Campaign for Freedom of Expression, 1990
On Edge: Alternative Spaces Today by Robert Atkins (1998)
Peter Taub, Paul Brenner, Geno Rodriguez, Ann Hatch, Ann Philbin, Helene Winer, Janelle Reiring, Kerry James Marshall, Jane Saks, Jeff Jones, Robert Crane, Holly Block, Cee Scott Brown, Anne Pasternak, Will Wilkins, Hilton Kramer, Jeff Gates, Xu Bing, Robert Blanchon, Leon Golub, Eve Laramee, Lauren Lesko, James Luna, Rosy Martin, Muntadas, Esther Parada, Carolee Schneemann, Andres Serrano, Rikrit Tiravanija, Cindy Sherman, Robert Longo, Taub, Bedoya, Serrano, Franklin Furnace, Randolph Street Gallery, NAME, Washington Projects for the Arts, WPA, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Capp Street Project, Alternative Museum, NAAO, Drawing Center, PS1, New Museum of Contemporary Art, 98 Greene Street, Apple, 112 Workshop, White Columns, New Langton Arts, DiverseWorks, Hallwalls, Nexus Contemporary Art Center, The Kitchen, Sushi, Aljira, Artists Television Access, Metro Pictures, Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation, Joyce Merz Gilmore Foundation, Art in General, Art Matters, Real Art Ways, MacArthur Foundation, Visual Studies Workshop, Art Papers, VIVA! Lesbian and Gay Latino Artists, Art FBI, COCA, Center On Contemporary Art, LACPS, Los Angeles Center for Photographic Studies, LACE, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, San Francisco Mime Troupe, Women's Philharmonic Orchestra, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, California College of Arts and Crafts, Pierogi, Artists Space, Civilian Warfare, Gracie Mansion, New York State Council on the Arts, Arts Challenge Fund, Creative Time, Spiderwoman Theatre, File Room, T-Race, P-Form, NEA Four, alternative spaces, arts funding, Culture Wars, NEA funding cuts, earned income, On Edge, Art in America, Chicago, New York, San Francisco, Houston, Buffalo, Hartford, Newark, Atlanta, Seattle, Los Angeles, Washington DC
NAAO Untitled (Conference), Buffalo, NY, 1986: Post-Conference Special FLASH Report
Charlotte Murphy, Hudson, Louise Shaw, Lynn Schuette, Marilyn Arsem, Claudia Barker, Gere Baskin, Jackie Battenfield, Biff Henrich, Alan Millar, Michael Peranteau, Judith Thorpe, Susan Wyatt, Michael Perri, Judy Moran, Jessica Cusick, Ariel Dougherty, Sue Schroeder, Guerrilla Girls, William Olander, Fletcher Mackey, Amalia Mesa-Bains, Susan Wheeler, Pat Oleszko, Nathan Lyons, Ric Amis, Colette Brooks, Tomas Ybarra-Frausto, Suzanne Lacy, Peter Jemison, Jolene Rickard, Eve Laramee, Loris Bradley, Michael Giza, MK Wegmann, Bernadette Brennen Hilt, Daniel Klepper, Carole Ann Klonarides, Michael Owen, Branda Miller, Michael Smith, Murphy, Hallwalls, C.E.P.A., MICA-TV, Albright Knox Art Gallery, NEA, National Endowment for the Arts, New York State Council on the Arts, ANNPAC/RACA, The Lab/the.art.re.grup, SPACES, New Langton Arts, 1708 East Main, American Indian Contemporary Arts, ART/COM/La Mammelle, The Artists Foundation, Artists Space, Artists Television Access, Eyes and Ears Foundation, Art Matters, Arts Midwest, Artspace, Arts Parts, Art Works, Austin Visual Arts Association, Bayfront Nato Center for the Arts, Beacon Street Gallery, Bronx Council on the Arts, C.A.G.E., Capp Street Project, Center for Puppetry Arts, Chicago Society of Artists, Contemporary Arts Center, Center for Contemporary Arts, Creative Time, Group Material, High Performance, Individual Artists of Oklahoma, Installation, Intersection for the Arts, John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Delaware Center for the Contemporary Arts, Detroit Focus, Diverse Works, LACE, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles Center for Photographic Studies, Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, Materials for the Arts, Arts for Transit, Mid-Atlantic Arts Consortium, Mid-America Arts Alliance, Minor Injury, Mobius, New York Foundation for the Arts, New York State Senate Culture Committee, Nexus Contemporary Art Center, Ohio State University Gallery of Fine Art, Opportunities for the Arts, Painted Bride Art Center, Printed Matter, Public Art Fund, Pyramid Arts Center, Randolph Street Gallery, Rotunda Gallery, San Francisco Camerawork, Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum, Sculpture Space, Several Dancers Core, Society for Photographic Education, Society of Layerists in Multi-Media, Soundwork, Sushi, Video Data Bank, Visual Studies Workshop, W.A.R.M. Gallery, Washington Project for the Arts, WPA, White Columns, The Woman's Building, Women's Studio Workshop, Kamber Group, INTAR Latin American Gallery, INTAR, Hammarskjold Sculpture Garden, NAAO Untitled Conference, Consensus Trust Convention Model, Consensus Trust, alternative spaces, PSA, Buffalo, New York, Chicago, San Francisco, Los Angeles, New Orleans, Houston, Atlanta, Minneapolis, Boston, Washington DC
NAAO Bulletin – January-February-March 1987
Lyda Pola, Pat Anderson, Rebecca Krafft, Inverna Lockpez, Wendy Kesselman, Martha Wilson, Jock Reynolds, Anne Focke, Renny Pritikin, Anita Contini, Joy Silverman, Sharon Spencer, Cee Brown, Steven Cantrell, Alyson Pou, Douglas Wagner, Tony Devarco, Paul Berger, James Enyeart, Andy Grundberg, David Jacobs, Carol Kismaric, Mark Klett, Esther Parada, James Pomeroy, Martha Rosler, Alan Sekula, Carol Squiers, Evon Streetman, Anne Tucker, Frank Hodsoll, Gere Baskin, Fern Shaffer, Roberto Bedoya, Susan Wheeler, Victor Sorell, James Alinder, Ellen Thurston, Paul Carlson, Lockpez, Hodsoll, INTAR Latin American Gallery, INTAR, Artists Space, Franklin Furnace, Washington Project for the Arts, WPA, Works Progress Administration, and/or, New Langton Arts, Creative Time, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, LACE, Social and Public Art Resource Center, SPARC, NEA, National Endowment for the Arts, Arts Midwest, Illinois Arts Alliance, New York Department of Cultural Affairs, Artemisia, National Alliance of Media Arts Centers, NAMAC, Friends of Photography, Academia Nacional de San Alejandro, Ansel Adams Center, John M. Olin Foundation, Dia Arts Foundation, Pollock-Krasner Foundation, Detroit Focus, Printed Matter, Newton Arts Center, University Center at Binghamton, Partners for Livable Places, University of Massachusetts Arts Extension Service, Opportunities for the Arts, NAAO Midwest Regional Conference, NAAO Western Region Conference, Fifth Annual Criticism Workshop, Dialogue Criticism Workshop, First National Sculpture Conference, Advancement Program, Artists File, NAAO Directory, NEA Arts Management Fellowship Program, Advancement grants, artists' slide registry, proportional representation, NEA panels, arts funding, foundations, alternative spaces, New York, Chicago, San Francisco, Washington DC, Los Angeles, Cincinnati, Binghamton, Cuba, Funding for Artists and How It Got That Way, Taking Ourselves Seriously, Proportional Representation of Women on NEA Panels
NAAO Bulletin – April-May-June 1987
Antonio Petracca, Jason Tannen, Pat Anderson, Rebecca Krafft, Charlotte Murphy, Inverna Lockpez, Louise Shaw, Lynn Schuette, Marilyn Arsem, Jessica Cusick, Susan Born-Ozment, Kim Haddow, Jody Haddow, Douglas Haddow, Michael Faubion, Nathan Lyons, Claudia Barker, Judith Teitelman, Gary Larson, Steven Benson, Andrea Einsley, Jeanne Lakso, Charles Cooper, Julie Fehrenbach, Elise Ferguson, Edsel Reid, Peter Taub, Jose Gonzalez, Rose Austin, Martha Winans, Mary Clark, Gere Baskin, Fern Shaffer, Nancy Steinmeyer, Jesus Negrete, Richard Andrews, David Fraher, Alene Valkanas, Susan Wheeler, Victor Sorell, Molly Jolly, Don Adams, Carolyn Berry, Robert Haywood, Karen Kleinfelder, Paul Laster, Alexander Lemski, Ruby Lerner, Rosanne Martin, Yvette Martini, Dmitri Matheny, Jean McLaughlin, Andy Ostheimer, Carla Peterson, Joseph Sanchez, Barbara Sexton, Susan Shutan, Daniel Tisdale, Murphy, Lockpez, Pyramid Arts Center, C.A.G.E., Cincinnati Artists' Group Effort, NEA, National Endowment for the Arts, NYSCA, New York State Council on the Arts, WPA, Works Progress Administration, Arts Midwest, Artemisia, INTAR Latin American Gallery, Beacon Street Gallery, Randolph Street Gallery, Detroit Focus, Visual Studies Workshop, Illinois Arts Alliance, C.A.I.D., Contemporary Arts Institute of Detroit, Mexican Cultural Institute, Mirarte Magazine, Printed Matter, LACE, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Contemporary Arts Center, Hallwalls, Ohio Arts Council, Eastman Kodak, International Museum of Photography, Rochester Institute of Technology, Eastman School of Music, School for American Craftsmen, Genesee Early Music Guild, Writers & Books, Portable Channel, ROCLA, Rochester Committee on Latin America, Deaf Artists of America, National Technical Institute for the Deaf, NTID, Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation, Mendel Art Gallery, ACUCAA, Association of College University and Community Arts Administrators, Artspace, Artists' Alliance, Art Research International, Artists' Television Access, ATA, Asian American Dance Theatre, Asian Arts Institute, Bayfront Nato Center for the Arts, CARFAC, Canadian Artists' Representation, Le Front des Artistes Canadiens, Center for Arts Information, Centro Cultural de la Raza, The Clocktower, The Fabric Workshop, Gallery Route One, Headlands Art Center, Light Work, Community Darkrooms, New York Foundation for the Arts, Northwest Artists Workshop, Paper Press, P.S. 122, Soundwork, Temple Gallery, Yellow Springs Institute, Circuit Breakers Festival, ROCLA Festival, C.A.G.E. X-mas Bizarre, Pyramid Soup Kitchen, NAAO West Coast Regional Conference, Midwest Regional Conference, Alternative Spaces Collaborate, NEA Visual Arts Residency Program, NAAO Directory, TVC.A.G.E., Pipsqueaks and Whirligigs, Tugging the Worm, fiscal agent, arts funding, alternative spaces, arts education, Rochester, Cincinnati, Chicago, Detroit, Washington DC, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Finger Lakes