As we all know, March is Women’s History Month! Here we present, in chronological order, a list of events having to do with women in art. We include all March 2026 events we have heard about that focus on women artists, though not all are Women’s History Month celebrations, per se. Some of the events are free to attend; others are fee-based. If you are aware of any events not listed here, do email details to us (erika@artherstory.net) or comment below.
Throughout March
- Art with Tosca presents Her Art: The Legacy of Women Artists Through the Ages, a four-part lecture series that explores the evolving role of women artists from the early modern period through the mid-20th century.
- March 3: Trailblazers of the Early Modern Period (17th Century and Before)
- March 17: Women Artists in the Age of Revolution (18th & 19th Centuries)
- March 24: Breaking Boundaries at the Dawn of Modernism (1900–1930)
- March 31: From Muse to Maker—Women Artists Reclaim Modernism (1930–1960)
Special discount: Through Art Herstory, Art with Tosca kindly offers a 15% discount for the 4-part series tickets. To take advantage, apply the code AWTxARTHERSTORY at checkout.
- March is “Morris Month,” a month-long celebration of William and May Morris. The list of related activities on the William Morris Society website includes these events that focus on women artists:
- March 11: May Morris and the Art of Embroidery by Lynn Hulse (in collaboration with The Victorian Society)
- March 18: A Remarkable Woman: Pragmatic Feminism in May Morris’s Plays (in collaboration with The Pre-Raphaelite Society)
- March 24: An Introduction to Women in Print (William Morris Gallery, Walthamstow)
- March 24: May Morris’ Embroidery Designs Print Room Visit (in collaboration with the Ashmolean Museum)
March 5
The Peabody Essex Museum (PEM) and the Heckscher Museum host (virtually) Sculptural Legacies: A Curatorial Roundtable on Emma Stebbins, Edmonia Lewis and John Rhoden. Stebbins, subject of a solo exhibition at the Heckscher Museum, was a queer sculptor working in 19th-century Rome who is famous for having created Central Park’s Bethesda Fountain. Lewis, subject of a traveling solo exhibition that has just opened at the PEM, was the first Black and Indigenous sculptor to achieve international acclaim in the 19th century.
March 5–9
The inaugural Making Their Mark Forum brings together leading global figures in contemporary visual arts and culture to champion the advancement of women artists. The Forum will feature dynamic panel discussions, keynotes, poetry readings, and performances, all designed to spark action and drive progress toward gender equity in the visual arts.
March 6
Puffin Schools presents Virtual Visit: Katy Hessel, author of The Story of Art Without Men, a webinar in which Katy highlights some of the female artists throughout history featured in her forthcoming book for young readers, and speaks to why representation is so important.
March 8
Glessner House hosts May Morris Designs, an online presentation by textile scholar and practitioner Lynn Hulse, who specializes in embroidered furnishings of the Aesthetic and Arts and Crafts movements.
March 9
Art History in Focus presents Artist in Focus: Artemisia Gentileschi, an online interactive talk by Art History in Focus director Siân Walters. The program will last approximately one hour including interactive Q&A. A recording will be available later for registrants who were not able to view the event live.
March 9–10
The 5th annual Women in the Museum Symposium takes place at Amsterdam’s Rijksmuseum. The year’s theme is Women in the Museum XL: The (Museum’s) Future is Female. View the full program here. The organizers offer both live-stream and in-person tickets—register here.
March 11
The Netherlands Interuniversity Institute for Art History (NIKI) Florence sponsors the online and in-person lecture Plautilla Nelli’s Holy Conversations, by Jane Adams & Catherine Turrill-Lupi. The event celebrates Suor Plautilla Nelli, the first Florentine woman to achieve fame as an artist in the 16th century.
March 12
Wake County Public Libraries offers the online Author Talk with Jennifer Dasal. Dasal, author of The Club and host of the Art Curious podcast, presents the never-before-told story of the Club, a female-only Residence known as The American Girls’ Club in Belle Époque Paris. The program is one-time only, live; no recording will be available.
March 13
The Courtauld’s Manton Centre for British Art hosts the conference Views of their Own: Rediscovering and Re-presenting the Work of Women Artists. Bringing together art historians and curators, the conference investigates the challenges and opportunities presented by the recovery and re-presentation of historic women artists whose work and reputations have fallen out of art historical narratives. It will explore various approaches to the complexities of bringing to light artists long overlooked by art history, whether in an exhibition or through the written word. The conference is timed to coincide with the Courtauld Gallery’s current exhibition, A View of One’s Own: Landscape Drawings by British Women Artists, 1760–1860.
March 14
The Lincoln Glenn Gallery’s Upper East Side location hosts the launch of The Power of Her Paintbrush: The Story of Theresa Bernstein, a new book by Janice Hechter for young readers about the realist painter.
March 20
The in-person lecture Artemisia Gentileschi with Professor Christopher Marshall at the University of Melbourne offers a new account of the life, work and legacy of the globally renowned Italian Baroque painter.
March 21
Sheila Barker, director of the Center for Women in Renaissance Archives, The Medici Archive Project, gives the annual Mary Strauss Women in the Arts lecture—Reframing Artemisia Gentileschi’s Success: The Market Appeal of Feminist Art in the 17th Century—at the Saint Louis Art Museum.
March 23
Dame Marina Warner delivers the 2025 Anna Jameson Lecture at London’s National Gallery. “’Rachel Weeping for Her Children’: Memories of Massacre, Flight, and Refuge” will draw on Anna Jameson’s work, paintings in the National Gallery, and contemporary women artists (Paula Rego, Kiki Smith, Marcelle Hanselaar). To attend in person, register here; to attend online, register here.
March 28
Art with Tosca’s unique tour Her Brush, Her Story: A Special Art Tour at the National Gallery of Art honors the extraordinary women who shaped the history of art—as artists, patrons, collectors, scholars, and advocates—and explores the museum’s collection through the lens of female creativity and expression.
Special discount: Through Art Herstory, Art with Tosca kindly offers a 10% discount on Preferred Access and Concession tickets. To take advantage, apply the code AWTxARTHERSTORY at checkout.
March 29
The Albany Institute of History and Art hosts Curator Talk: Blanche Lazzell and the Advancement of American Modernism, with speaker Robert Bridges, Chief Curator at the Art Museum of West Virginia University. The lecture is organized in conjunction with the exhibition Blanche Lazzell: Becoming an American Modernist, organized by the Art Museum of West Virginia University and generously supported by Art Bridges. The presentation will cover Lazzell’s life and art, illustrating her important position as a pioneering American Modernist.
More Art Herstory posts:
Museum Exhibitions about Historic Women Artists: 2026
New Books about Women Artists | Jul–Sept 2025
Ten Intriguing Books About Remarkable Women Artists, a guest post by Carol M. Cram
