by Elaine Luther | Jul 27, 2021 | Artists
This article is for parents, other adults, or advanced kid readers. (If you’re new here, you may not know that many of our posts are written for kids!) Edmonia “Lewis’s best-known work in her lifetime was the Death of Cleopatra, a twelve-foot tall sculpture...
by Elaine Luther | Nov 2, 2020 | Arts and Crafts for Kids
Alma Woodsey Thomas’ paintings look like they’re a mosaic, from a distance, but in reality they’re paintings made of painted shapes. These painted shapes make up the abstract images she painted. Her paintings have names that reference what she was...
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 | Apr 16, 2019 | Artists
Mary Edmonia Lewis was a sculptor in America at a time when it was difficult for any woman to be a sculptor, and significantly more difficult for a black woman to do so. Author Kirsten Pai Buick, author of the book Child of the Fire, about Edmonia Lewis, says that...
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