by Elaine Luther | Oct 17, 2020 | Inventors
Water guns, the telephone, caller ID, traffic lights with three lights – all things we take for granted today and probably never think about who invented them or what life was like before these wonderful inventions. Here are 7 Black American inventors and what...
by Elaine Luther | Oct 17, 2020 | Inventors
Women have always been inventive, even if we don’t always hear about it. Here are 7 things you use or encounter every single day, and probably didn’t know that a woman invented or co-invented it! Woven Clothing Elizabeth Wayland Barber, he author of...
by Elaine Luther | Oct 17, 2020 | Astronauts and Pilots
We love Amelia Earhart, don’t get us wrong, but there are so many amazing and brave women pilots to know about! Here are just 7 of them. Thérèse Peltier was a sculptor who learned to fly from her friend and flew in a straight line for 200 meters, about 2.5...
by Elaine Luther | Oct 14, 2020 | Arts and Crafts for Kids
Lee Krasner was an abstract expressionist painter whose husband was also a painter. When they met, she was more well known and successful than he was. Many people credit him with achieving abstraction first, before his wife. But biographer Gail Levin, who wrote a...
by Elaine Luther | Oct 13, 2020 | Arts and Crafts for Kids
Women Artists as Allegories Women artists in the Renaissance period (14th Century) and before often painted themselves as an allegory of painting. An allegory is an idea, embodied in a person. The Statue of Liberty is the idea of liberty, expressed in a statue of a...
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