Judy Chicago’s The Birth Project (1980-1985): The Power of Parturition and Textile Arts
When I walked into The Birth Project exhibit in the Judy Chicago retrospective at the the de Young...
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Category: Nasty Women Writers: Artists
Painting Historic Women on Plates! In the 1930s Nasty Woman Artist Vanessa Bell Did It Too.
In the 1930’s Vanessa Bell and her partner and fellow artist Duncan Grant returned much of their...
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Feminist Artist Judy Chicago’s The Dinner Party: Celebrating Women Across Time
Until I stood before it in the Brooklyn Museum, I didn’t understand it fully. I had seen...
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Nasty Woman Artist Vanessa Bell: Life as Artform
Woman artist Vanessa (Stephen) Bell (1879-1961) turned every place that she lived into a living...
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Judy Chicago: Feminist Art, Collaborative Works and ChangeMaker
Last summer, I went to an exhibit by George Fok titled Passing Through at the Contemporary Jewish...
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Francesca Caccini (1587-1646): The First Woman to Compose an Opera
(The featured image above is from the 2018 performance of Caccini’s La Liberazioine at the...
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Welcome, Controversy. We’ve been expecting you.
We’ve been waiting months for the delayed unveiling of Maggi Hambling’s sculpture honoring Mary...
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Edmonia Lewis(1844-1907): An American Black Woman Sculptor Trapped in Structures Harder Than Marble
Edmonia Lewis had two problems. One: that she was not white and two: that she was not male. She...
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Shattering Ceilings: Glass and Bronze!
Little by little, we move closer to a new year. (I’ve always been noted for stating the obvious!)...
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