On This Spot is a steadily growing archive putting pioneering women artists on the map. Our new Season Four begins with the remarkable women of Coenties Slip, Chryssa, Agnes Martin, and Lenore Tawney, and continues with Maria Lassnig, Colette Lumiere, Marcia Marcus, Margaret Morton, Mimi Gross, Deborah Kass, Marisol, Liliana Porter, and Ursula von Rydingsvard.
Mothers of Invention: The Feminist Roots of Contemporary Art at the 92nd Street Y Weill Art Gallery explores the innovations of performance, craft, abstraction, and eco-feminism through photographs, text, and a selection of short documentary films produced by On This Spot.
Curated by the book’s authors: Eleanor Heartney, Helaine Posner, Nancy Princenthal, and Sue Scott.
A Screening and Discussion at The South Street Seaport Museum
Saturday, May 9 | 3:30p.m.
213 Water Street, New York, NY 10038
As we reflected on Women’s History Month, Collective Power: Women Artists Shaping Downtown New York revisits the feminist collectives that transformed the city’s art world—and revives the spirit of consciousness-raising that shaped them.
New York Preservation Archives Project (NYPAP)
(BAR)d Birthday Breakfast Benefit
Featured speaker Loretta Howard
The Academy Art Museum presented a three-part lecture series and screening featuring On This Spot. Easton Maryland
We are honored to announce that we are the recipient of the 2025 Deborah Buck “Stepping Up To The Plate Award.” This annual award recognizes institutions and women artists’ collectives across the U.S. that advance and support gender equality in the arts.
On This Spot is incredibly grateful for this recognition.
In the summer of 2025, On This Spot partnered with Leroy Street Architectural Studio to present Season Three: Lower East Side Artists. The window exhibition highlighted pioneering women who shaped the neighborhood’s cultural and artistic identity. The pop up exhibition brought these stories directly into the community.
Artists Alice Aycock, Jane Dickson, and Co-Founder and Executive Director of On This Spot Loretta Howard joined Rail Editor-at-Large William Corwin for a conversation on the New Social Enviroment.
The Historic Districts Council and On This Spot present a virtual tour of the Lower East Side, exploring the rich cultural and artistic history of this storied neighborhood.
An online discussion with Loretta Howard, Executive Director, joined by On This Spot board members and Association of Professional Art Advisors colleagues Naomi Baigell and Lorinda Ash.
The premiere of On This Spot’s third season of short documentaries, focused on the Lower East Side.
Melissa Stern profiles On This Spot for Art Spiel, calling it “a terrific new web series that seeks to document the histories of women artists in NYC from the 1950s to the 2000s.”
On This Spot videos featured in a series of the SoHo Memory Project newsletters. Dedicated to celebrating the history of SoHo as a New York City neighborhood, this collaboration helps preserve its past and connect present generations a rich cultural legacy.
Village Preservation hosted a webinar with historian William Roka and curator Loretta Howard discussing On This Spot. The evening included screening of a number of videos including The Guerilla Girls and Joan Mitchell. The conversation introduced the project’s broader aims while highlighting how New York itself serves as the leading character across all the videos.
Lesley Dill, Bentley Brown, Eilzabeth Smith and Loretta Howard participated in a panel discussion hosted by Melissa Rachleff Burtt at NYU’s Einstein Auditorium.
New York University’s Steinhardt Graduate School of Visual Arts Administration preseted On This Spot Documentaries Screening and Panel Discussion February 8, 2025
On This Spot’s Yoko Ono documentary presented at the 2024 MASNYC awards.
(left to right)Signe Howard, Loretta Howard, Nancy Blum and Rico Gatson
We are thrilled to be among a recipient of The NYC Women’s Fund for Media, Music and Theatre (“Women’s Fund”), administered by NYFA in partnership with the City of New York Mayor’s Office of Media and Entertainment. The fund addressed the underrepresentation of women in the entertainment industry.
Xuezhu Jenny Wang interviews On This Spot Co-Founder Loretta Howard on the project’s alignment with the changing landscape of digital media, as well as her experience as a feminist entrepreneur.