by wpengine | Sep 2, 2019 | News/Blog
American University, Washington, DC, 24–25 September 2021 Self-portrait with Easel, 1640s, by Michaelina Wautier (So. Netherlands, 1617–1689). Held in a private collection; source, Wikimedia. Update, May 14, 2020 The Feminist Art History Conference has been postponed,...
by wpengine | Aug 9, 2019 | News/Blog
Guest post by Emma Steinkraus, Assistant Professor of Fine Arts, Hampden-Sydney College Two of my favorite seventeenth-century women artists, Giovanna Garzoni and Maria Sibylla Merian, were also excellent naturalists. As I combed through their paintings and prints...
by wpengine | Jul 20, 2019 | News/Blog
Thoughts on the MIA’s Exhibition of Native American Women Artists Guest post by Elizabeth Sutton, Associate Professor of Art History, University of Northern Iowa A Nation is not conquered until the hearts of its women are on the ground. Then it is finished,...
by wpengine | Jul 8, 2019 | News/Blog
A Curator’s Perspective Guest post by Judith W. Mann, Curator of European Art to 1800, the Saint Louis Art Museum On the occasion of what would have been Artemisia Gentileschi’s 426th birthday (July 8), it is worth reflecting on events of the last year that...
by wpengine | Jun 30, 2019 | News/Blog
Guest post by Laura Gowing, Professor of Early Modern History, King’s College London The exhibition Bright Souls: The Forgotten Story of Britain’s First Female Artists, just opened in London’s Connaught Street. The show puts together for the first time...
