The ''Woman's Art Journal'' (''WAJ'') is a
feminist art
Feminist art is a category of art associated with the late 1960s and 1970s feminist movement. Feminist art highlights the societal and political differences women experience within their lives. The hopeful gain from this form of art is to bri ...
history journal that focuses on
women in the visual arts. The journal also serves as a forum "for critical analysis of contemporary art issues as they relate to women."
Overview
The ''Woman's Art Journal'' is published twice annually, in May and November, by Old City Publishing, Inc.
Ute Tellini is the journal's book editor. The journal's editorial offices are located at
Rutgers University
Rutgers University (; RU), officially Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, is a public land-grant research university consisting of four campuses in New Jersey. Chartered in 1766, Rutgers was originally called Queen's College, and was ...
.
History
Elsa Honig Fine first proposed a journal on women and the arts at a 1979 meeting of the
Women's Caucus for Art
The Women's Caucus for Art (WCA), founded in 1972, is a non-profit organization based in New York City, which supports women artists, art historians, students, educators, and museum professionals. The WCA holds exhibitions and conferences to promo ...
.
She founded ''Woman's Art Journal'' in 1980. Fine wrote that the original goals of the journal were "documenting women artists who were celebrated during their lifetimes but are now lost to art history, looking at the art of the past through a feminist lens, and reviewing the ever expanding number of books on women and issues related to women in all areas of the visual arts."
Fine announced in 2005 that the journal would cease publication. Due to support from the feminist community, the journal continued with
Joan Marter
Joan Marter is an American academic, art critic and author. A 1968 graduate of Temple University, Marter is the "Distinguished Professor of Art History" at Rutgers University. Marter is the co-editor of the ''Woman's Art Journal
The ''Woman's Art ...
and
Margaret Barlow becoming co-editors in 2006.
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{{Feminist art movement in the United States
Visual arts magazines published in the United States
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Feminist magazines
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Women's studies journals
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