Manuscripts Collection
The Women's Art Registry of Minnesota (WARM) was begun in 1976 as a women's collective art group to provide a supportive environment for women artists to show their work. They built their own gallery space which served as a catalyst in the development of a downtown art district. The artists worked in mediums of paint and oils, textiles weaving, pottery, paper, and wood. The organization remained active until January, 1991 when it closed its gallery in Minneapolis and moved to smaller quarters in Saint Paul.
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 cassettes. 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:
This collection is indexed under the following headings in the catalog of the
Minnesota Historical Society. Researchers desiring materials about related topics,
persons or places should
Accession numbers: 12,986; 13,309; 13,556; 13,850; 13,875; 14,589; 14,618; 16,151; 16,731
Processing and cataloging of this collection was supported with a Basic Project
grant awarded by the National Historical Publications and Records Commission
Catalog ID number: 001720031
Correspondence and notes.
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.
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.