Bia Lowe, Lesbian Art Project—Noun+Verb, 1977; Unknown. Terry Wolverton, Insurgent Muse: Life
Bia Lowe, Lesbian Art Project—Noun+Verb, 1977; Unknown. Terry Wolverton, Insurgent Muse: Life and Art at the Woman’s Building. The Lesbian Art Project (or LAP) was founded by art historian Arlene Raven in 1977 as a project of the Woman’s Building, a feminist art organization she had co-founded. She wanted to conduct art historical research about lesbian artists. She was joined by a group of her students (Kathleen Berg, Nancy Fried, Sharon Immergluck, Maya Sterling, and Terry Wolverton) who called themselves the Natalie Barney Collective and who expanded the scope of the project to include art projects, educational workshops and events. In 1978 and 1979, the project was co-directed by Raven and Wolverton.In her book, Insurgent Muse: Life and Art at the Woman’s Building, Terry Wolverton gives a very personal and heartfelt narration of her work with The Lesbian Art Project, an endeavor which she describes as “consisting of equal parts art historical research, community building, activism, group therapy, heavy partying, and the kind of life-as-art performance sensibility inherited from the Fluxus artists and so prevalent in Southern California art of the 1970s.”Terry says in the book: “We are after nothing less than an exploration of the meaning(s) of ‘lesbian,’” and the collective “imagine[s] the Lesbian Art Project as a springboard from which to launch a reinvention of the lesbian community.” [x] -- source link
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