by Elaine Luther | Sep 22, 2019 | Artists
Kathë Kollwitz, 1867-1945 Kathë Kollowitz (say the W like a V), is known for her prints that protest a social situation from her times, or show the profound grief of a parent whose child has died. Print Making to Make a Statement Print making was a choice that she...
by Elaine Luther | Sep 22, 2019 | Artists
Mary Cassatt, American Impressionist, 1844-1926 Mary Cassatt was a wealthy American woman who is known for painting other wealthy women in (more or less) proper places – at home, with children, at the opera. At first glance, you might think she was proper herself. But...
by Elaine Luther | Sep 21, 2019 | Artists
If you can name one abstract painter, he’s probably a man. But women painted abstractly too, and in fact the first artist to achieve abstraction in a painting was a woman, artist Lee Krasner. Sometimes it may seem like only men were abstract painters, but it’s not...
by Elaine Luther | Sep 7, 2019 | Inventors
Sometimes, an invention is invented because someone makes an imaginative leap from one thing to another. That can be why a regular person comes up with a clever new innovation that the experts didn’t see—the expert is focused on their one area of expertise, that they...
by Elaine Luther | Sep 7, 2019 | Inventors
Sarah E. Goode (1855-1905) was the first African American woman to be awarded a U.S. Patent, for a cabinet bed, which would fold up during the day “so as to occupy less space, and made generally to resemble some article of furniture when so folded.” Her patent was...
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