ALL ARCHIVAL REPOSITORIES holding primary source materials of and about women visual artists active in the U.S. since 1945 are invited to be included in WAAND, the Women Artists Archives National Directory, an innovative Web directory developed by Rutgers University Libraries. Please list your collections with WAAND and make your holdings known to interested scholars and students around the world. To list or manage your collections in WAAND click here.

WAAND is designed to become a powerful research tool for scholars, students, artists, and collecting institutions around the world. WAAND directs users to the location of the papers of contemporary women visual artists and to the records of organizations of women artists active in the U.S. since 1945.

WAAND founding participants include the Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution; Fales Library and Special Collections, New York University; Hatch-Billops Collection, Archives of African American Cultural History; and the Museum of Modern Art Archives. Principal Investigators are Dr. Ferris Olin and Judith K. Brodsky, founding directors of the Institute for Women & Art at Rutgers.