Since the soft launch of the WAL App (in January 2017) and the subsequent official launch party (in March of the same year), the App has been downloaded 2,687 times. Further, the blog has attracted a total of 1,290 views from countries around the world including: Senegal, Pakistan, India, Brunei, China, Singapore, Dominican Republic, Slovakia,…
The WAL App project (among other many great case studies and analyses) is featured in the first volume of Feminism and Museums: Intervention, Disruption and Change. “Mention “feminism” outside of sociology or politics and you’re often met with an eye-roll or confusion. However, the hard reality is that females remain a highly oppressed group globally: deemed…
If you missed the Launch of the Women’s Art Library App, we have a temporary exhibit in the Special Collections and Archives room at Goldsmiths Library showcasing how the WAL App was made. The exhibit will be on display until April 13, 2017.
Thanks to all who attended the Women’s Art Library App launch! We took the opportunity to thank the 7 artists featured on the WAL App: Marcia Bennett-Male, Claire Collison, Angela Edmonds, Caroline Hands, Kathleen Fox, Freddie Robins and Kim Thornton. Each artist was given a ‘How to Make an Archive Travel?’ bag (designed by the amazing…
The WAL App will be officially launched on March 3rd, 2017. The event will be held from 5.30pm – 7.30pm at the Women’s Art Library, Special Collections and Archives, in Goldsmiths Library, Goldsmiths, University of London New Cross, London, SE14 6NW The event provides an occasion for women artists, academics, students and all other members of the…
I am happy to announce that the WAL App has been ‘pre-released’ on the App Store (the official launch will be coming soon)! Try it out and let us know what you think. The WAL App provides information about the Women’s Art Library and allows you to read about women artists featured in the Library’s archive,…
The WAL App is in the last stages of design, content arrangement and coding. It has been a great journey to this point, and I am looking forward to your response to the App which will soon be live. In the meanwhile, I want to say thank you to the many that helped to this point: thank you to…
I’ve spent the weekend working on the WAL App’s content, and particularly a special feature I am excited to include – voice recordings of the women artists speaking about their lives, work and art on their own terms. I must admit I have always loved listening to women speak: because in their voices you hear more than just the story told,…
Winning grants for research projects can be difficult – and even more so if you: are an early career researcher, are doing something that is not ‘mainstream’, are using the ‘f’ word too much (no, not ‘funding’, I mean ‘feminist’), don’t have the time or experience or teams or funds or support to work on a number of grant applications (from the…
There are many resources out there that can help you start coding. I wrote about a few in a previous post, including books, advice from successful developers and Meetups. If you have done this and are still stuck for whatever reason – e.g. you have a ‘day job’, it’s too complicated, it’s taking too much time, you’ve never…
One of the first women artists to catch my eye, spark my interest and capture my imagination early on was Frida Kahlo (1907-1954). Her parents were Guillermo Kahlo (1871–1941), a German-born photographer who emigrated to Mexico in 1891, and Matilde Calderón y González (1876–1932), born in Oaxaca to an indigenous father and a mother of Spanish descent. Her art, once described by…
Over the last two days, Althea and I met 6 of the 7 artists that will be featured on the WAL App. Together we looked at art slides, photographs, exhibition pamphlets, magazine articles, posters and other (digital and physical) materials held at the Women’s Art Library – drawing together aspects of each artist’s contribution to the archive. In selecting from…
