An Art of One's Own: The Story of Women in Art

In Virginia Woolf's feminist essay, A Room of One's Own, she stated, "Women need money and a room of their own" to succeed as writers. The essence of her wisdom still applies to struggling women artists today. Until the last few years women were mostly excluded from art history books. We will center on a diverse group of women from the Renaissance to the present and discuss the various genres of their art from history and myth to portraiture, still life, domesticity, self-reflection, protest, and abstraction. Some of the artists include Artemesia Gentileschi, Elizabeth Vigee Le Brun, Berthe Morisot, Kathe Kollwitz, Jaune Quick-to-See Smith, Frida Kahlo, Alma Thomas, Georgia O'Keeffe, Helen Frankenthaler, Imogen Cunningham, Margaret Bourke-White, Faith Ringgold, and Emmi Whitehorse. Please join us to experience the talented artists who are finally being recognized as succeeding in an art of their own.