Breaking the Bronze Ceiling: One Inspiring Public Sculpture at a Time!
This original post ran over three years ago, celebrating the unveiling of a magnificent bronze...
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Category: Nasty Women Writers: Artists
Faith Ringgold’s The French Collection of Story Quilts
One of the most important artists of our time, Faith Ringgold was born in Harlem, N.Y. in 1930. At...
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Nasty Woman Artist Hilma af Klint: How the World Works
It was one painting in the Museum of Modern Art in New York, but it stood out to me and I took a...
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Faith Ringgold’s Children’s Books: Bringing Hope and History to Life
Faith Ringgold’s children’s books arose out of her story quilts, one in particular: Tar Beach. A...
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Faith Ringgold: Quilting Truth into History
Someone told me to go see the exhibit “Faith Ringgold: American People” at the de Young museum in...
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Woman Artist Julia Margaret Cameron (1815-1879): Photographic Vision
In 1926 Virginia and Leonard Woolf’s Hogarth Press published Victorian Photographs of Famous Men...
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May Alcott Nieriker: Littlest Woman, Big Ambition, American (1840-1879)
The youngest sister of Little Women author Louisa May Alcott, May Alcott Nieriker was a successful...
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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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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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