CHERI GAULKE Abbreviated Resume 2023
SELECTED HONORS, GRANTS AND AWARDS
California Humanities, California Documentary Project Grant for Production, 2023
The Edison Innovation Award, from the Thomas Edison Film Festival, 2023
The Chimaera Project, To.Get.Her. Finishing Fund, 2022
California Humanities, California Documentary Project Grant for Research & Development, 2018
MY HERO International Film Festival, Eva Haller Women Transforming Media Award, 2018, 2020
MY HERO International Film Festival, Media Arts Educator Award, 2016
California Community Foundation, Mid-Career Fellowship for Visual Artists, 2015
Center for the Study of Political Graphics, Art is a Hammer Award, 2013
City of Los Angeles, COLA-Individual Artist Fellowship, 2004
UCLA Film & Television Archives, oral history, Out of the 70s: L.A. Women in Film & Video, 2003
California Arts Council, Artists in Communities Grant, 1985-1988
National Endowment for the Arts, Individual Artist Fellowship, 1983
FILMOGRAPHY (with selected screenings and awards)
All films produced, directed and edited by Cheri Gaulke
Inside The Beauty Bubble, 2021, 31:15, documentary with animation, 40+ festivals, 35+awards incl. SLO FF and Dances With Films Audience Awards, Nevada City FF Heart of Gold Award, New Filmmakers LA, Best Short Doc of 2022 nominee, Thomas Edison FF Jurors’ Stellar Award
Miss Alma Thomas: A Life In Color, 2021, 20:00, documentary, for a retrospective traveling exhibition Alma W. Thomas: Everything is Beautiful, Chrysler Museum of Art, (Norfolk, VA), The Phillips Collection (Washington, DC), the Frist Art Museum (Nashville, TN) , and The Columbus Museum (Columbus, GA); 40+ festivals, 9 awards incl. Best Short Doc at Tallgrass, DC Shorts, International Fine Arts, DC Black FF, 2nd place Woods Hole
I Am COVID-19, 2020, 3:00, animation, Solstice: Create Art for Earth, curated by Judy Chicago, Turner Carroll Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico
Trudie’s Goose, 2020, 4:48, animated documentary, American Pavilion Emerging Filmmakers Showcase at the Cannes Film Festival; Women Transforming Media Award, MY HERO International Film Festival; Cucalorus Festival; Women Over 50 Film Festival, London, England; AmDocs; NOT Film Fest, Santarcangelo, Italy
Gloria’s Call, 2018, 16:47, documentary with animation, 40+ festivals incl. Slamdance; Ann Arbor FF Best Documentary; Nevada City FF Audience Award; Newport Beach Film Festival, Best Art, Architecture and Design Film; HotDocs, Audience Award runner-up, Venice Biennale 2022
I Am Be, 2016, 13:00, experimental narrative, 15+ festivals incl. California Women’s Festival Best Supporting Actress Nomination, LA Shorts Awards Best Experimental
In India: A Reflection In Three Parts, 2015, 13:36, travel music video, Travel FilmFest International Film Festival, Limassol, Larnaca
Cycle Of The Witch (Or, Sorry I Missed Church, I Was Busy Practicing Witchcraft And Becoming A Lesbian), 2013, 12:00, single-channel experimental personal narrative video, Tapping the Third Realm, curated by Meg Linton, Ben Maltz Gallery, Otis College of Art and Design; Michigan Womyn’s Music Festival Film Program; aGLIFF: Austin Gay and Lesbian International Film Festival; Reeling 2014: 32nd Chicago LGBT International Film Festival; OUTrageous!, Santa Barbara Gay and Lesbian Film Festival
Peep Totter Fly, 2011, single-channel, mixed-media interactive video installation, Los Angeles Goes Live: Performance Art in Southern California 1970-1983, LACE (Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions), a Getty-sponsored Pacific Standard Time exhibition
Note: older works have less detailed screening info due to lack of space
Our Wedding, 2010, 7:30, single-channel video
Feminist Art Workers: Heaven Or Hell?, 2008, 7:37, documentary, Making It Together: Women’s Collaborative Art + Community, curated by Carey Lovelace, Bronx Museum of Art, Bronx, New York
Sisters Of Survival, 2008, 8:00, documentary, Making It Together: Women’s Collaborative Art + Community, curated by Carey Lovelace, Bronx Museum of Art, Bronx, New York
You Can Hear It Singing: A Journey Down The Cape Fear River, 1999, 12-monitor, 4-channel video installation permanent installation commissioned by Exploris Museum, Raleigh, North Carolina
’tweens, 1997, 9:15, single-channel video, funded by Pasadena Arts Commission
Out Loud, 1995, 18:30, single-channel video, now a legacy film at Frameline Distribution
Sea Of Time, 1993, 12:00, single-channel video, Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum, Santa Barbara, CA
L.A. River Project, 1992, 12:00, single-channel video
Pillar Of Smoke, 1992, 9:00, single-channel video, A Matter of Life and Breath, curated by Kim Abeles, California Museum of Photography, University of California, Riverside
Frogskin, 1991, 6:30, single-channel video
Once Upon A Time, 1991, single-channel, mixed-media video installation, Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, CA
El Sereno Serenade, 1990, multi-channel, mixed media video installation, Los Angeles Festival
Bound To Please, 1989, video and mixed media installation, Beyond Baroque, Venice, CA
L.A. River Project, 1989, multi-monitor, single channel, mixed-media video installation, Fragile Ecologies: Artists’ Interpretations and Solutions, curated by Barbara Matilsky, Queens Museum of Art, Flushing, NY, and toured nationally by SITES, Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Services
Diane Gamboa: Artist, 1989, 5:45, documentary
Medusa’s Beauty Secrets, 1988, 10:00, single-channel video
Celebrate…, 1988, 5:00, single-channel, mixed-media video sculpture
Our Lady Of L.A., 1987, 29:00, documentary
Leaps Of Faith, 1985, 6:00, performance documentary
Eclipse In The Western Palace, 1977, 5:00, single-channel PortaPak video, collection of the Getty Research Institute
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
Queer Forms, Katherine E. Nash Gallery, University of Minnesota, curated by Howard Oransky, 2019
Artist Couples, curated by Trevor Norris, Long Beach Community College Art Gallery, Long Beach, California, 2019
Cryin’ Out Loud, juried by Micol Hebron, Center for Contemporary Arts, Santa Fe, New Mexico, 2017
It’s a Wonderful World, juried by Betty Ann Brown, Groundspace Project, Los Angeles, California, 2017
UN Women USNC LA Media Summit Exhibition in support of #HeForShe, curated by Niku Kashef, YouTube Space LA, 2016
WonderWomen, curated by Frenchy Lunning, Howard Oransky and Susan Smoluchowski, Katherine E. Nash Gallery, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, 2015
Binding Desire: Unfolding Artists Books, Ben Maltz Gallery, Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles, CA, 2014
Over There (and back), curated by Trevor Norris, Frank M. Doyle Arts Pavilion, Orange Coast College, Costa Mesa, California, 2014
“The House We Built: Feminist Art Then and Now,” curated by Joyce Lyon and Howard Oransky, Katherine E. Nash Gallery, Regis Center for Art, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, 2013
Tapping the Third Realm, curated by Meg Linton and Carolyn Peter, Ben Maltz Gallery, Otis College of Art and Design and Laband Art Gallery, Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, CA, 2013
Under the Wings of Artemis: Scholars, Artists and the Places Between, curated by Lauren Dudley and Sandra Kroupa, Special Collections at the University of Washington Libraries, Seattle, WA, 2014
Breaking in Two: A Provocative Vision of Motherhood, curated by Bruria Finkel, Arena 1, Santa Monica, CA, 2012
Doin’ It in Public: Feminism and Art at the Woman’s Building, curated by Meg Linton and Sue Maberry, Ben Maltz Gallery, Otis College of Art and Design, a Getty-sponsored Pacific Standard Time exhibition, Los Angeles, CA, 2011-2012
Los Angeles Goes Live: Performance Art in Southern California 1970-1983, LACE (Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions), a Getty-sponsored Pacific Standard Time exhibition, Los Angeles, CA, 2011-2012
SELECTED PUBLIC ART
Tampa, Vanowen, Winnetka, City of LA Bridge Improvement Program, art for 3 bridges, 2012-13
Valor: Filipino World War II Veterans Memorial, Lake Street Park, commissioned by Eric Garcetti, City Council Office 13, 2005
Silver Lake Street Medallions, commissioned by Silver Lake Neighborhood Council, 2005
Pillars of Community: Legends of Lakewood, City of Lakewood, 2004
Consider: Seven Generations, Lake View Terrace Branch Library, City of LA, 2003
Water Street: River of Dreams, Lincoln Heights/Cypress Park Metro Station, 2003
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS (by the artist)
Reading Contemporary Performance: Theatricality Across Genres, Meiling Cheng and Gabrielle Cody, Eds. Routledge. Essay entitled “Sisters Of Survival” by Gaulke, 2014
Feminist Art Workers: A History, by Cheri Gaulke and Laurel Klick, with essays by Marlena Doktorczyk-Donohue, Meiling Cheng, Marie B. Shurkus and others, published by Otis College of Art and Design, in conjunction with “Doin’ It in Public: Feminism and Art at the Woman’s Building,” Ben Maltz Gallery, Otis College of Art and Design, a Pacific Standard Time exhibition, 2012
Sisters Of Survival, by Jerri Allyn, Anne Gauldin, Cheri Gaulke, Sue Maberry, published by Otis College of Art and Design, in conjunction with “Doin’ It in Public: Feminism and Art at the Woman’s Building,” Ben Maltz Gallery, Otis College of Art and Design, a Pacific Standard Time exhibition, 2011
SELECTED ARTICLES, BOOKS, AND REVIEWS (about the artist)
JONES, Amelia. Essay “Dyke Talk, or ‘Political Lesbianism’ and Queer Feminist Art (History): Amelia Jones in Dialogue with Cheri Gaulke, A.L. Steiner, and Terry Wolverton,” Otherwise: Imagining Queer Feminist Art Histories, Manchester University Press (Rethinking Art’s Histories series), Eds. Amelia Jones and Erin Silver, pgs. 160-174, ill., 2016
MORAVEC, Michelle. “Performing Prehistory: ‘Would you rather be a goddess or a cyborg?’” n. paradoxa, International Feminist Art Journal, Volume 33, pgs. 73-84, ill., 2014
PHELAN, Peggy. Live Art in LA: Performance Art in Southern California, 1970-1983, edited by Peggy Phelan, Routledge, ill. (Included in an essay “Lost Bodies: Early 1970s Los Angeles Performance Art in Art History,” by Jones, Amelia) p. 115-184, 2012
NEEL, Tucker. “Red Leatherette: LACE Performances Say Goodbye, Hello,” artillery, Volume 6 Issue 4 April/May 2012
OLLMAN, Leah. “’Breaking in Two,’ Visions of Motherhood at Arena 1.” Los Angeles Times online, March 1, ill., titled “Ever-Attentive Mothers of Art” in the print edition, 2012
HALE, Sondra and Terry Wolverton, Eds. From Site to Vision: The Woman’s Building in Contemporary Culture, Los Angeles: Otis College of Art and Design, ill., 2011
KLEIN, Jennie and Myrel Chernick, Eds. The M Word: Real Mothers in Contemporary Art, Demeter Press, p. 270-273, ill., 2011
KORT, Michele. “When Feminist Art Went Public,” Ms. Magazine, pgs. 40-43, ill., 2011
LINTON, Meg, Sue Maberry, Elizabeth Pulsinelli, Eds. Doin’ It in Public: Feminism and Art at the Woman’s Building, Los Angeles: Otis College of Art and Design, ill., 2011
MARK, Lisa Gabrielle and Paul Schimmel, Eds. Under the Big Black Sun: California Art 1974 to 1981, Los Angeles: Museum of Contemporary Art. (Included in the essay “In and Out of the Studio,” by Frances Colpitt), 2011
KLEIN, Jenny. “Goddess: Feminist Art and Spirituality in the 1970s,” The Countercultural Experiment, Elissa Auther, editor, University of Minnesota Press, ill., 2011
SWARTZ, Anne. “The Home that the Woman’s Building Built: Cheri Gaulke and Sue Maberry Construct a Visual Narrative of the Lesbian Family,” Journal of Lesbian Studies, Special Issue: Lesbian Art and Art by Lesbians, Guest editor: Margo Hobbs Thompson, Routledge: Taylor & Francis Group, Volume 14, Numbers 2-3, April-September 2010, pgs. 201-237, ill., 2011
SELECTED COMMUNITY-BASED AND EDUCATION WORK
Artistic Director, Righteous Conversations Project (Holocaust survivors & teens), 2011-2021
Full-time Faculty, Video Art, Harvard-Westlake School, 1988-2019
Visual Arts Department Chair, Harvard-Westlake School, 2015-2018
Founder and Director, Digital Storytelling Adventures (taking teens to 7 countries recovering from conflict to make documentaries), 2013-2019
Artist-in-Residence, A Window Between Worlds (domestic abuse survivors), 2015-16
Arts Review Panelist/Advisor for: Long Beach Museum of Art (2010), California Community Foundation, (1998) City of LA Cultural Affairs Dept. (1994, 2006), Getty Trust Fund (1997), Ohio Arts Council (1988)
Lectures: USC, University of Michigan, Armory Center for the Arts, Claremont Graduate University, Pomona College, Loyola Marymount University, UCLA, College Art Association, CalArts