Cheri Gaulke
Old Girl in a TuTu
Director, Producer, Writer, Editor: Cheri Gaulke is a pioneer in the feminist art movement in Los Angeles and an award-winning filmmaker whose films have screened in film festivals internationally.
Gaulke's work has been presented at the Museum of Modern Art (NY), the Museum of
Contemporary Art (LA), in a Smithsonian-touring exhibition, and in settings all over the world including buses, churches, and prehistoric temples. Gaulke has received artist fellowships from National Endowment for the Arts, California Arts Council, City of Los Angeles, California Community Foundation, and California Humanities.
Recent films: Gloria's Call about women and surrealism (40 film festivals; Best Documentary, Ann Arbor Film Festival; 2022 Venice Biennale); Miss Alma Thomas: A Life in Color about an under-recognized African-American artist (for a museum retrospective); and Inside the Beauty Bubble about a gay hair salon owner (50 festivals; Audience Awards at San Luis Obispo Film Festival and Dances with Films). She is currently in post-production on her first feature documentary, Acting Like Women, about feminist performance art and the Woman's Building in 1970s-80s Los Angeles.
In 2025, Cheri Gaulke will attend:
Gala Dinner
Filmmakers Parade
