Manuscripts Collection
In 1973 The Women's Art Registry of Minnesota (WARM) was organized to support the work of women working in the visual arts in Minnesota. At that time women were underrepresented in the galleries and museums in the region. The organization served as a network for artists to exchange information and to organize exhibitions of women’s art work.
In 1976 WARM created its own art gallery, WARM a Women’s Collective Art Space, with rotating exhibitions for members and special invitational exhibitions. Though the gallery closed in 1991, the organization continues to organize exhibitions and operate a mentor program. A fortieth anniversary exhibition was mounted in 2013.
The collection includes minutes, correspondence, financial records, grant and funding information, subject files, artists’ files, public relations files, newsletters, newspaper clippings, slides and photographs, and audio and video files. A wide range of art-related subjects are documented including women artists, funding for the arts, individual artists’ work, collective operation of a gallery, publicity for exhibits, and the recognition of emerging artists who were then represented by other galleries.
These records are divided into the following fourteen sections:
Accession numbers: 12,986; 13,309; 13,556; 13,850; 13,875; 14,589; 14,618; 16,151; 16,731; 16,733; 17,162
Digital masters of video and audiocassettes are maintained on the Society's secure digital collections storage servers and are managed and preserved in accordance with archival best practices.
The original video and audiocassettes were disposed after they were digitally reformatted into digital MOV and WAV files.
Processing and cataloging of this collection was supported with a Basic Project
grant awarded by the National Historical Publications and Records Commission
Digital audio and video transferred from video and audiocassettes by the Minnesota Historical Society for preservation purposes, (January 2019).
Catalog ID number: 001720031
Includes some minutes.
Includes member procedures and policies, friends and sustaining (1981-1982), and campaign and alumnae information.
Includes correspondence, schedules, policy and history, exhibits outside WARM gallery, Invitational Art Exhibit (1977), and Invitational Show (Women Invite Women, 1977-1978).
Includes correspondence, donor letters, consortium, and final report of the Joan Snyder show.
Includes Bush grant request and correspondence with lenders, collectors, artists, and advisers of an exhibit featuring pictures by women artists in private collections.
Includes financial, publicity, and miscellaneous material.
Includes correspondence, price lists, and slides of artists' work of juried art exhibits sponsored by WARM. Juried exhibits of 1981, 1982, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1987, 1987 can be found in Box 7.
Never executed.
Includes inventories and slides of a traveling art show by Native American women.
Correspondence and catalog.
Correspondence, handouts, comments, and final report of an outreach program sponsored by Minnesota Arts Experience (MAX) and WARM.
Includes slides.
Includes brochures, statements and information on artists, slides, and other materials.
Includes correspondence and catalog.
Catalog essay.
Includes photographs of mentors/proteges.
Includes biographies of eight Minnesota women honored.
Includes correspondence, lists of participants, publicity, and miscellaneous material of a conference celebrating WARM's 10th Anniversary.
WARM affiliate.
These files include biographical material, exhibit brochures and flyers, newspaper clippings, reviews, class material, and photographs/slides of individual artists.
SEE: separate envelope.
4 minutes MPR quotes by Tamara Blaschko, director Sally Brown, collective/board Valerie Frank; 10 minutes KUOM 770AM telephone interview w/Sally Brown; 45 plus minutes KUOM 770AM 1/5/88 studio interview w/Sally Brown, Joyce Lyon, Patrice Koelsch on WARM and funding aesthetic.
Digital audio
Digital audio
Digital audio
Digital audio
Part 1; Interviews of Phyllis Wiener, Anne DeCoster, and Terri Schubach.
Digital video: part 1
Part 2; Bonita Wahl (interview), Têtes Noires (performance), Tribute to Women in the Arts Carol Bly, Sally Brown, Roberta Davis, Nancy Hauser, Phyllis Jane Rose, Libby Larson, Kathleens Laughlins, Meridel Lesueur, [Rosalie Wahl speech]
Digital video: part 2
Don't Call Us by Laurie Beth Clark Installation, 1986 WARM Gallery, Minneapolis.
Digital video
It's W.A.R.M. in Chicago. Informal discussion with members of W.A.R.M. [Phyllis Wiener, Susan McDonald, and Linda L. Rother] and ARC.
Digital video
Digital video
Featuring Ruth Appelhof, Tina Nemetz, Mary Bergs, Rafala Green, Leann Johnson, Jane Ross, Anna Stanley.
Digital video
September/October 1999-July/August 2002. (Nos. 1-18).
Notebooks include correspondence, slides, applications, and miscellaneous material relating to the annual juried shows sponsored by WARM.
Custom-made box containing three two panel poster boards and crayon artworks by WARM artists to capture visually the ideas and concerns of the group. Also included is a smaller piece, which was taped to the larger work, and photographs of the writing on the back of the art works.
Posters (16) of exhibits; a photograph of members on the 5th Anniversary (1981), taken by Judy Stone Nunneley; and a diagram showing WARM artists' studio locations. This is one oversize folder in a box that also contains material from other manuscript collections.