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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Category: Nasty Women Writers: Artists
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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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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Judy Chicago: Feminist Art, Collaborative Works and ChangeMaker
In the summer of 2021, I went to an exhibit by George Fok titled Passing Through at the...
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Agnes Pelton, Jan Rindfleisch and the Importance of Archives of Women Artists
Abstract Artist Agnes Pelton’s (1881-1961) work was lost to the public since her death in 1961,...
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Abstract Artist Agnes Pelton (1881-1961): Liberation in the Desert
Though some complained about the growing number of “cults” in California in the 1930s, for...
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The Swans of Harlem by Karen Valby. Five Black Ballerinas, Fifty Years of Sisterhood, and Their Reclamation of a Groundbreaking History
These are the women who changed the way the world thinks about ballet and ballerinas, the women...
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Woman Artist Gego: Revealing the Dimensions of Space
At the Guggenheim Museum in New York I was treated to an exhibit of the work of German-Venezuelan...
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The Power of Her Paintbrush: The Story of Theresa Bernstein by Janice Hechter
Children are an ideal audience for highlighting historically marginalized women. Such works expose...
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