Nancy Angelo

Who is Nancy Angelo?

Nancy Angelo is an organizational psychologist and formerly a performance and video artist who took part in the feminist art movement in Los Angeles. As an artist, she is best known for co-founding the collaborative performance art group The Feminist Art Workers in 1976 with Candace Compton, Cheri Gaulke, and Laurel Klick.

After studying photography in Denmark and attending San Francisco Art Institute, Angelo moved to Los Angeles in 1975 in order to enroll in the Feminist Studio Workshop at the Woman’s Building. She took an active part in refurbishing the old three-story structure on North Spring Street near Chinatown that housed the Woman’s Building and making it suitable for learning and practicing art.