THE WAITRESSES is a collaborative performance art group founded in 1977 by Jerri Allyn and Anne Gauldin. Other members have included Leslie Belt, Patti Nicklaus, Denise Yarfitz, Jamie Wildperson, Chutney Gunderson, and Anne Mavor. Most of the artists met while attending the Feminist Studio Workshop at the Woman's Building in Los Angeles, California. They drew upon their own waitressing experiences and incorporated research about working women. They focused on five issues: work; money; sexual harassment; food production; and stereotypes of women /waitresses - mother, servant, sex object. Their work has been exhibited in cultural centers, universities, on billboards, and in museums. Out of the gallery and into restaurants and the streets, they performed in parades, conferences, buses, for the media, and in public sites internationally.This catalogue is published by Otis College of Art and Design in conjunction with the exhibition "Doin' It in Public: Feminism and Art at the Woman's Building," October 1, 2011 - February 26, 2012, organized by the Ben Maltz Gallery and supported by the Getty initiative "Pacific Standard Time: Art in L.A. 1945-1980." Contributing writers include Marlena Doktorczyk-Donohue, Suzanne Lacy, Carol McDowell, Michelle Moravec, and Gloria Feman Orenstein.
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