The Iowa Women Artists Oral Histories date from mid-1998 to September 1999, and measure 12.25 linear inches. The interviews cover childhood, education, development as an artist, artwork, creative process, and influences. They vary in length, but the average interview was one and one-half hours. The interviews usually took place in the artist's home or studio. The interviewer, Jane Robinette, traveled over 5,800 miles to thirty-three towns and cities, collecting seventy-nine interviews on 148 tapes, resulting in 1,830 transcript pages. The transcripts are arranged alphabetically, preceded by individual biographical abstracts and Jane Robinette's notes about the interview.

An additional impetus of the Iowa Women Artists Oral History Project was the construction of a website, www.lucidplanet.com/IWA, which features sound bytes from the interviews, text clippings from the transcripts, updates of recent exhibits, short biographical sketches of each artist, and a small sampling of each artist's work.