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“Throughout art history, the people who’ve had the power to write dominant narratives decided to exclude women and art made in Latin America,” curator Cecilia Fajardo-Hill told Artsy. “It’s a form of segregation, and it is unacceptable.”

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APPROACH: USE OF NEGATIVE SPACE

Ashraf Foda: Poster design, American University, Cairo

Jennifer Hueur: NY Times

Dearbhla Kelly: Irish Times

Noma Bar: Various editorials

Unknown: Tehelka

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Decades Before Judy Chicago's 'The Dinner Party,' Virginia Woolf's Sister Made a Set of Dinner Plates Celebrating 50 Historic Women | artnet News

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Features the rich collections of the Library of Congress and brings to light remarkable but little-known contributions made by North American women to the art forms of illustration and cartooning. Spanning the late 1800s to the present, the exhibition highlights the gradual broadening in both the private and public spheres, of women’s roles and interests, and demonstrates that women once constrained by social conditions and convention, have gained immense new opportunities for self-expression and discovery.

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Called Her Paris: Women Artists in the Age of Impressionism, the exhibit showcases women who worked in Paris in the late 1800s. Some of the artists include Berthe Morisot, Mary Cassatt, Marie Bracquemond, Harriet Backer, Anna Ancher and Lady Elizabeth Butler. These women were not all Parisian, but rather traveled to Paris in order to be part of the mecca of artistic education and production at that time, even when their home countries were more welcoming of women in men-dominated artistic fields.

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Revolt, They Said is a wall-sized diagram based on an ongoing drawing in which Geyer delineates a network of 850 women without whom the American cultural landscape would not be as we know it today.

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Olimpia Zagnoli illustrates How to Eat Spaghetti Like a Lady

(Above) Olimpia Zagnoli / (Below) Alfred Eisenstaedt

In Time Life magazine in 1942, a "series of photographs" by Alfred Eisenstaedt was published as a tutorial for women, teaching how to elegantly consume spaghetti “like a lady”. The step-by-step guide featured portraits of a coiffured model determinedly twirling the strands of pasta on her spoon and, eventually, eating it in a dignified fashion. 

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A visual mapping of the women’s movement in India through the posters the movement had produced.

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Episode 35 of Eric Molinsky's Imaginary Worlds Podcast Wonder Woman is finally going to make her cinematic debut in Batman v Superman. Bringing her to the big screen has been a long and fraught process. She is a beloved character with a tricky backstory -- not just in the comics, but real life too. While Superman and Batman drew from familiar genres of sci-fi and detective tales, Wonder Woman was created by a psychologist who tapped into long forgotten utopian feminist fiction, adding a few twists of his own. Featuring Jill Lepore ("The Secret History of Wonder Woman"), former DC exec Jenette Kahn and artist Cliff Chiang.

As we inch closer to the release of the first full Wonder Woman movie, this is a good look back into the character’s origins in feminist utopian fiction, suffragist art, and women’s rights.

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Women Who Draw

An open directory of female* professional illustrators.

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5 Women Artists—Archives Edition

Selections from the Getty Research Institute’s collections :

Barbara T. Smith—A performance- and installation-art pioneer. Her work explores concepts that strike at the core of human nature, including sexuality, spirituality, and death. 

The Guerrilla Girls—An anonymous feminist protest group that confronts discrimination against women artists and artists of color in the art world and tackles broader social issues. 

Harmony Hammond—A trailblazing feminist, lesbian, and queer artist whose work aims to “break down the distinctions between painting and sculpture, between art and women’s work, and between art in craft and craft in art.”

Marcia Tucker—An influential curator of painting and sculpture at the Whitney Museum of American Art and founder of the New Museum of Contemporary Art. At the New Museum she organized key exhibitions such as Bad Paintings (1978) and Bad Girls (1994). 

Joanie 4 Jackie—A feminist video project started by filmmaker, artist, and writer Miranda July in 1995. These chain-letter videos, started during the Riot Grrrl movement, aimed to create a generation of female film makers in a pre-YouTube era. 

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Check out this great article over at Hyperallergic on the See Red Women’s Workshop, which made the posters above and ran from 1974 to 1990.

“The workshop started in 1974 with a newspaper ad calling for female visual artists “to combat images of the ‘model woman’ which are used to keep women from disputing their secondary status.” A range of women joined See Red, from photographers and filmmakers to illustrators and graphic designers.”

And check out the book in our collection: See Red Women’s Workshop: Feminist Posters, 1974 -1990 (HQ1236.5 .G7 S74 2016 Quarto)!

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Illustrated Women in History is a project which aims to illustrate and research women in history to...