Sep 10, 2026 | About Women Artists
There’s a Problem with How Museums Talk about Craft Museums honor the techniques and materials used when it comes to paintings and sculptures. They do this by including the information on the label, they tell us this painting is by Mary Cassatt, an American...
Dec 29, 2025 | About Women Artists, My Art & Studio
In September, I attended part of an online feminist art history conference – it was also in person at American University in D.C., but I did the online thing. There was a very cool presentation about a group of women artists in the ’70s who did a series of...
Jan 21, 2024 | About Creativity, About Women Artists
What is a Cyanotype? Cyanotypes are a photographic process where sensitized paper or fabric is exposed to the sun (or other UV light source) in order to make an artistic print. The process was invented in 1842 by Sir John Frederick William Herschel, who wanted a quick...
Nov 12, 2020 | About Women Artists, Teaching
We don’t see enough art projects out in the world that are inspired by the art of women artists, so I decided to create some and find some more. They’re on my blog at BeingBold.me. You can find them all here:...
Nov 9, 2019 | About Women Artists
On the origins of Ruth Asawa’s method for creating her suspended wire sculptures. The Myth There is a myth about Ruth Asawa, the Japanese-American sculptor known for her suspended wire forms. The myth says that she went to Mexico in 1947 (or ‘48) and “a local...
Feb 10, 2019 | About Women Artists
Artist Nicole Havekost, whose work I saw at Woman Made Gallery and I interviewed here, is teaching a workshop in November 2019 called the Doll as Storyteller, at Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts. Read all about the class here. And know that if cost is a barrier,...
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