The Woman’s Building History: Cheri Gaulke (2011)
Video (5:58): Queer performance artist and filmmaker Cheri Gaulke interviewed about The Woman’s Building. This video was made by students at Gloria Orenstein’s class at USC’s Multimedia Across the College Program entitled Women in Art and Literature in 2011.
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About Cheri Gaulke
Cheri Gaulke has a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Minneapolis College of Art and Design and a Master of Arts degree (in Feminist Art/Education) from Goddard College. In 1975, she moved to Los Angeles to be involved with the Feminist Studio Workshop at the Woman’s Building. There she embraced the notion that feminist art could raise consciousness, invite dialogue, and transform culture. She worked primarily in performance art from 1974-1992, addressing themes such as religion, sexual identity, and the environment. In addition to her solo work, she cofounded collaborative performance groups Feminist Art Workers (1976-81), which merged feminist art and education techniques into interactive performances; and Sisters Of Survival (1981-85), who wore nun’s habits in the spectrum of the rainbow and presented their anti-nuclear performances in Europe and the U.S. With her partner, Sue Maberry, Cheri Gaulke explored their relationship through the documentation series “Thicker than Blood: Our Lesbian Family” (1992). – Today, she works in a variety of media, but mostly video, installation, artist’s books, and public art.