Women in Art Celebrations | Women’s History Month 2025

As we all know, March is Women’s History Month! Here we present, in chronological order, an illustrated list of events having to do with women in art. We include all March (and slightly beyond) events we have heard about that focus on women artists, though not all are necessarily designated 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.

March 1

Silvano Levy delivers the talk Mary Wykeham: Surrealist out of the Shadows at The Hepworth Wakefield, where a solo presentation of paintings and prints by Wykeham features within the exhibition Forbidden Territories: 100 Years of Surreal Landscapes. Levy is the author of a new book about the artist. Register here.

March 3

The University of Hartford celebrates Women’s History Month and the publication of I’m So Happy You Are Here: Japanese Women Photographers from the 1950s to Now with a talk by photography historian Carrie Cushman. Register here.

March 4

The 4th annual Women in the Museum Symposium takes place at Amsterdam’s Rijksmuseum. The theme is “Fabric of Fame: Materiality Versus the Canon.” This year’s edition focuses on the materiality of the physical (art) object as a gateway into the history of women makers, users and trendsetters. Hybrid event; register here for online attendance, or here for in-person attendance.
In her talk Lines are lineages…, presented by the Art Seminar Group, artist and educator Lisa Blas will trace the origin stories of women and abstraction to reach new perspectives of painting in a global context. Hybrid event, may be attended online or in person at The Women’s Club of Roland Park; register here.
In the lecture Art and Motherhood at Oslo’s Nasjonalmuseet, Hettie Judah—author of Acts of Creation: On Art and Motherhood—explores how images of motherhood from across art history have reinforced the expectations imposed on flesh and blood parents, and how feminist artists have worked to subvert them.

March 6

To mark the 50th anniversary of the United Nations International Women’s Year (IWY) the 2025 Betty Churcher AO Memorial Oration celebrates diverse voices and the contributions of artists internationally. An exclusive conversation between Judy Chicago and Katy Hessel will be followed by a panel discussion with leading Australian artists Alison Alder, Marie Hagerty, Raquel Ormella and r e a, hosted by Tracy Cooper-Lavery, Head, Art Across Australia and Chair of the National Gallery’s Gender Equity Action Group. Hybrid event; register here for online attendance, or here for in-person attendance.

Common Threads Press hosts an evening with Sharbreon Plummer, curator of the exhibition Of Salt and Spirit: Black Quilters in the American South at the Mississippi Museum of Art, and also author of Diasporic Threads: Black Women, Fibre and Textiles. She will walk the audience through her research and the curatorial work that underpins the exhibition, followed by a Q&A session.
Hosted by The Arts Society Amersham, Suzanne Fagence, author of How We Might Live: At Home with Jane and William Morris, presents The Female Gaze: photography from Julia Margaret Cameron to Lee Miller.

March 7

Discover the incredible stories of female artists featured in the Toledo Museum of Art’s European collection, guided by Megan Reddicks Pignataro, Research Associate in European Art. On the tour It’s a She Thing: European Women Artists at TMA (1600–1900), visitors will learn about influential artists from Artemisia Gentileschi to Marie-Victoire Jaquotot, whose groundbreaking work continues to inspire today. The tour is free but registration is required and limited.

March 8

Memphis is brimming with powerful, innovative, and trailblazing women shaping the arts. Organized by Dixon Gallery and Gardens and Theatre Memphis, the annual event Women in the Arts brings together a host of women of all ages for a day of performances, demonstrations, classes, and dialogues ranging from personal stories to championing gender equality.
The Clark Art Institute hosts A Conversation with Kiki Smith. The artist joins exhibition curator Kathleen Morris to talk about how Smith, who has worked in a wide range of materials over her career, became engaged in the medium of tapestry. They also explore Smith’s long-standing interest in using printmaking to realize work in other media.
Opera Saratoga presents Frida Kahlo and the Bravest Niña in El Mundo, an interactive children’s opera, at the Albany Institute of History and Art. After the program concludes, there will be post-performance discussion between the artists and attendees.
The National Museum of Women in the Arts hosts Frida Kahlo: Art and Legacy, a virtual event. Sarah Powers, curator at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts (VMFA), will talk about her research for the exhibition Frida: Beyond the Myth upcoming at the VMFA. Following the presentation, Powers will converse with Laura Hoffman, NMWA director of digital engagement.
The Evelyn De Morgan Closing Event at Wolverhampton Art Gallery explores—with expert talks, a creative workshop and the option to attend an evening performance by Flexus Dance Collective—themes within De Morgan’s work that relate to International Women’s Day 2025. Register here.
Elements of York International Women’s Week:
- Suzanne Fagence, author of How We Might Live: At Home with Jane and William Morris, presents Exploring the lives of Jane Morris, Effie Gray and Margaret Cameron.
- As part of its series Exhibition talks: International Women’s Day, Beningbrough hosts sculptor Rebecca Stevenson for an informal conversation with curator Rachel Conroy. Rebecca created the work Mary, Maria, Marianne (click the link then scroll down to see the sculptural arrangement) to honor Mary Delany, Maria Sibylla Merian, and Marianne North. Rachel is author of Women Artists and Designers at the National Trust.

March 12

There Were Important Women in the History of Prints, hosted by the Paul Mellon Centre, celebrates the collaborative (and Open Access!) volume Female Printmakers, Printsellers, and Print Publishers in the 18th Century: The Imprint of Women, c. 1700–1830. Hybrid event; register here.
The Spencer Museum of Art at The University of Kansas hosts an Artist Talk with Artist-in-Residence Mary Sibande, visiting from Johannesburg, South Africa. Sibande’s work is included in the museum’s current exhibition Bold Women. It is an in-person event, but will also be livestreamed on the museum’s YouTube channel.

March 13

Paris A. Spies-Gans delivers the Anna Jameson lecture “The Spirit of a Particular Age”: Women Artists and the Challenges of an Integrated Art History. This lecture will consider the complicated legacies surrounding women artists and notions of historical truth. Hybrid event; register here for Zoom attendance, or here for in-person attendance. The Anna Jameson Lecture series is generously supported by the Diane Apostolos-Cappadona Trust.

March 14

In Mary Cassatt and the Making of a Transatlantic Legacy at the NYPL’s Vartan Gregorian Center for Research in the Humanities, art historian Ruth E. Iskin offers a fresh perspective on the renowned painter and printmaker. Iskin, author of the new book Mary Cassatt between Paris and New York, will discuss with Tulane University professor of European art Michelle Foa the lasting impact of Cassatt’s work on the art world and the broader political and cultural landscape. Register here.

March 16

The Minneapolis Institute of Art hosts Mary Sully: Native Modern, with Philip J. Deloria, author of Becoming Mary Sully: Toward an American Indian Abstract. The talk will explore Sully’s eclectic style as an expression of her grounding in Plains aesthetics and material culture. It will also consider Sully’s emergence as a newly recognized artist immersed in the principles of both Native arts and American modernism.

March 21

The British Museum presents The Women Who Made Picasso, in which a panel of distinguished experts discusses accomplished women (artists among them) whose contributions Picasso’s fame has until recently overshadowed. Register here.

March 22

In Capturing Her Environment: A Curator’s Exploration of Maine’s Female Artists, Francesca Soriano, Associate Curator of American Art at the Farnsworth Art Museum talks about the lives and works of nine pioneering women artists who lived and worked in Maine during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Soriano is the curator of the exhibition Capturing Her Environment: Women Artists, 1870–1930.
Art with Tosca offers the small group tour Her Brush, Her Story: Celebrating Artists, Muses, and Advocates at the National Gallery of Art. This 2-hour tour of the National Gallery of Art uncovers the fascinating stories of women artists, the evolving portrayal of women in art, and the trailblazers who fought to ensure their place in museum collections.

March 26-30

Double-Edge Theatre produces Leonora, la maga y la maestra at The Farm in Ashfield, MA. This surreal performance is inspired by the life, writings, and art of British-born Mexican artist Leonora Carrington. Through a captivating encounter between Leonora and Adán (an everyman), the play brings to life the magic, mystery, and humanity in Carrington’s work.

March 27

In the virtual program The Magical Worlds of Leonora Carrington, sponsored by the Rose Art Museum at Brandeis University, Susan Aberth converses with Gannit Ankori, Henry and Lois Foster Director and Chief Curator, and curator of the Rose’s current exhibition, Leonora Carrington: Dream Weaver. Together, they will explore Carrington’s childhood immersion in Irish folklore, her harrowing escape to Mexico in the 1940s alongside other European refugees, and her creative journey across mystical terrains, steeped in magic, mythology, and the occult.

March 28

Gordon Russell Design Museum hosts an online talk by Karen Livingstone, who introduces her book Women Pioneers of the Arts and Crafts Movement.
Memorial Art Gallery (MAG) at the University of Rochester offers a unique culinary experience: hoMAGe Culinary Series: Alma Thomas Dinner connects the vibrant works of Alma Thomas with a five-course dinner and wine pairing with Chef and Sommelier commentary, and shared insights led by Jess Marten, MAG Curator of American Art.

March 29

Catherine Hall-van den Elsen—author of the book Luisa Roldan—delivers the Philadelphia Museum of Art’s Eda G. Diskant Lecture: The Extraordinary Life of Luisa Roldán. She recounts the story of the developing recognition of a 17th-century woman now recognized as one of the most significant sculptors of Spain’s early modern period. Hybrid event; register here for online attendance, or here for in-person attendance.

March 31

Jacqueline Marie Musacchio’s talk The Art and Life of Francesca Alexander at the Boston Athenaeum draws on the work of the self-taught 19th-century artist—and other sources including letters, diaries, guidebooks, newspapers and magazines—to discuss Alexander’s art, and her place in history. Musacchio is the author of a new book about the American-born 19th-century artist, philanthropist and celebrity.

And beyond…

April 3

The Dallas Museum of Art sponsors the Brettell Lecture Seeing Double: The Mirrored World of Eva Gonzalès. Nikki Georgopulos, Assistant Professor in the Department of Art History, Visual Art & Theory at the University of British Columbia, explores Afternoon Tea by Eva Gonzalès as a springboard for a broader discussion of mirrors, gender, and the body in French art of the mid-19th century.

April 4

In an episode of NCFS Unbound, a series of virtual book dialogues sponsored by the Nineteenth-Century French Studies Association, Ruth E. Iskin talks with Vanessa Schwartz about her book Mary Cassatt between Paris and New York.

April 5

The Oklahoma City Museum of Art presents The Legacy of Nan Sheets: Art, Community, and Oklahoma City’s Museum. Michaela Wegman’s talk explores Sheets’ life and enduring impact as the first director of the Oklahoma Art Center and an influential figure in Oklahoma’s art scene. Register here.

April 8

In the talk Women Pioneers of the Arts and Craft Movement at the National Galleries of Scotland, Karen Livingstone introduced her new book of the same name. The book celebrates the work and ambition of the women who were at the heart of the most influential art and design movement of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, including May Morris, Gertrude Jekyll and Annie Garnett. Hybrid event; book here for online (YouTube) version, or here for in-person version.

April 12

On the opening day of the exhibition Rachel Ruysch: Nature into Art at the Toledo Museum of Art, there are three celebratory events: Tour With a Curator; Lecture with a Curator; and Tour with a Curatorial Research Associate.

April 13

The American Folk Art Museum presents I Can See It All Even With My Eyes Closed, a virtual seminar on the life and art of Madalena Santos Reinbolt (Brazil, 1912–1976), a day of talks and presentations held in both English and Portuguese. It is the first large-scale program exploring the artist’s life, art, influences, and creative processes. Madalena Santos Reinbolt: A Head Full of Planets is on at the museum through May 25.

April 22

In her talk Changing Perspectives on the “Self” by Women Artists, presented by the Art Seminar Group, art historian Aneta Georgievska-Shine surveys the changing perspectives on the creative “self” from the female point of view, looking at examples that range from the Renaissance to the present. Hybrid event, may be attended online or in person at The Women’s Club of Roland Park; register here.

April 24

Rosalba Carriera | Portraits of 18th Century Venice, a lecture at the National Galleries of Scotland by Christopher Baker, Editor of The Burlington Magazine and a former Director at the National Galleries of Scotland, will survey Carriera’s extraordinary career and critical fortunes.

April 25

Smithsonian American Art Museum hosts We Gather at the Edge: Contemporary Quilts by Black Women Artists Open House. Artists Sylvia Hernandez, Beverly Smith, Chawne Kimber, Peggie Hartwell, and Helen Murrell, members of the WCQN, talk with the public about their works, which are on view in the exhibition. Aleia Brown and Mary Savig, curators of We Gather at the Edge: Contemporary Quilts by Black Women Artists, will share additional insights with the public about the curatorial process behind the exhibition.

May 4

Paris Spies-Gans delivers the lecture Breaking Barriers: Sophie Frémiet and the Rise of Women Artists in Europe at The Getty. Paris will delve into Frémiet’s era “to upend longstanding assumptions about women’s opportunities and wrongly forgotten triumphs.” Hybrid event; register here for Zoom attendance, or here for in-person attendance.

Celebrations of Women in Art during Women’s History Month and Beyond, 2025