President Annie Shaver Crandall, 1986-1988

The records span the period from 1972 to 1988 and the bulk dates from 1978-1986. They consist primarily of presidential correspondence and subject files, but also include officer and advisory board correspondence, annual conference materials (such as program brochures, exhibition catalogs, typescripts of speeches, et.), WCA chapter newsletters and exhibition announcements, photographs and video/audiotapes. Significant topics include the WCA's involvement in discrimination/affirmative action surveys and cases, influence on the College Art Association, art exhibitions and publications sponsored by the WCA, annual conferences, and the establishment of annual awards for senior women in the visual arts.

The Ofelia Garcia and Annie Shaver-Crandell files also contain information about the two Women Artists Visibility Events, including posters, T-shirts, banners and badges.

The growing strength and numbers of the local WCA chapters are shown by the need to create subseries of correspondence between the National Office and the chapters during the period 1984-1988. The New York City, New Jersey, and Philadelphia chapters have been maintained as separate series. Similarly, because of the bulk of conference material after 1984, a separate series was created for conferences covering the period 1984-1988. Separate series were also created for publications, membership rosters, audio-visual materials, and photographs.

The records of Elsa Fine, which were donated to the WCA, create a separate record group. Fine's material includes manuscripts and correspondence relating to her 1978 book Women and Art, and the never-published revision of Women's Studies in Art and Art History, first published by the WCA in 1974. The Fine papers also include catalogs and announcements of exhibitions which were sent to Fine in her capacity as editor of Women's Art Journal.