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National Association of Women Artists. The National Association of Women Artists, Inc. (NAWA) is a United States organization, founded in 1889 to gain recognition for professional women fine artists in an era when that field was strongly male-oriented. It sponsors exhibitions, awards and prizes, and organizes lectures and special events.
The absence of women from the canon of Western art has been a subject of inquiry and reconsideration since the early 1970s. Linda Nochlin's influential 1971 essay, "Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists?", examined the social and institutional barriers that blocked most women from entering artistic professions throughout history, prompted a new focus on women artists, their art and ...
In the winter of 1970-71 the group established the Women's Art Registry, a slide collection of work by female artists, which served as a model for later registries like West-East Bag (W.E.B.). [3] The registry was housed by several galleries, including cooperatives 55 Mercer and A.I.R. , before going to Special Collections and University ...
The feminist art movement in the United States began in the early 1970s and sought to promote the study, creation, understanding and promotion of women's art. First-generation feminist artists include Judy Chicago, Miriam Schapiro, Suzanne Lacy, Judith Bernstein, Sheila de Bretteville, Mary Beth Edelson, Carolee Schneeman, Rachel Rosenthal, and ...
Women artists from the United States. This is a non-diffusing subcategory of Category:American artists . It includes artists that can also be found in the parent category, or in diffusing subcategories of the parent.
Nationality. American. Known for. Painting. Movement. Impressionism, Regionalism. Spouse. Weds W.M. Spencer in 1890, Weds A.Y. Smith in 1895 [1] Effie Anderson Smith (September 29, 1869 – April 21, 1955), [1] also known as Mrs. A.Y. Smith, was an early Arizona impressionist painter of desert landscapes, many of Cochise County and the Grand ...
Lucille (or Lucile) Wilcox Joullin was born in Geneseo, Illinois on September 6, 1876. She worked with John Vanderpoel at the Art Institute of Chicago. In 1894, she went to San Francisco. Her first marriage was to artist Jules Mersfelder. Her second was to Amédée Joullin (a painter himself) in 1907. The couple went on an extended honeymoon in ...
At the Mid-west Women's Artists' Conference in Michigan in 1975, attendees from Minneapolis learned about the practicalities of maintaining a cooperatively run gallery. The Women's Art Registry of Minnesota was founded as a cooperative by 37 women artists in 1976. It was the first feminist art cooperative in Minnesota.