Woman's Building History: Cynthia Marsh 1/2 (from Otis College)

Cynthia Marsh was on faculty at the Woman's Building in Los Angeles from 1973 to 1978. She went on to be a professor of printmaking and design at California State University, Northridge from 1978 to 1992. She then served as the Chair of Communication Arts at Otis College of Art and Design in Los Angeles from 1992 to 95. She left to become Chair of the Art Department at Austin Peay State University, in Tennessee, where she founded the Goldsmith Press and Rare Type Collection. Since its inception, press has received ten regional and national grants including an NEA award in 2006. http://www.apsu.edu/Art/faculty/marsh/index.html

This video was commissioned by Otis College of Art and Design for the exhibition "Doin' It in Public: Feminism and Art at the Woman's Building" (1973-1991) in the Ben Maltz Gallery, October 1 December 3, 2011. This video is part of an ongoing series of oral histories about the Woman's Building (partially funded by the Getty Foundation).

The exhibition is part of a "Pacific Standard Time: Art in L.A.
1945-1980," a Fall 2011 city-wide initiative sponsored by the Getty Foundation.

http://www.otis.edu/public_programs/ben_maltz_gallery/womansbuilding.html

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