In 1903, Sir Arthur Evans, excavating at the palace of Knossos on the island of Crete, discovered fragments of faience statuettes depicting female figures holding snakes. Two of these statuettes were ...
Ethel Smyth was a twentieth-century British composer and a champion of women’s rights and female musicians. During her lifetime, she composed symphonies, choral works (musical pieces written for a ...
Shelley Lowell was born in the Bronx, NY in 1946. She studied Advertising Design & Visual Communications at Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY, graduating with a BFA. She has maintained two parallel art ...
Susan B. Anthony’s life and work offer a glimpse into the extraordinary events of both the abolitionist movement and the women’s suffrage movement in the late nineteenth century. Anthony was the face ...
Since 2015, Anne Pasternak has served as the Shelby White and Leon Levy Director of the Brooklyn Museum, one of the oldest and largest fine arts institutions in the nation. For more than thirty years, ...
Virginia Woolf is a renowned British novelist associated with the modernist movement in literature; her writing is characterized by experiments in language, narrative, and the treatment of time. Woolf ...
Born in Ankara, Turkey in 1981, Pinar Yolacan studied Fashion at Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, and Media Art in Chelsea School of Art before graduating from the Cooper Union with a ...
The correct spelling of this name is ANDREA VILLARREAL. Andrea Villareal was a teacher, poet, feminist, labor organizer, and revolutionary who, with her sister Teresa, published the feminist newspaper ...