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2008 Women s History Month

2008 Theme: Women's Art: Women's Vision. The history of women and art is quintessential women's history. It is the story of amazing women's accomplishments acclaimed at the time but written out of history.". National Women's History Project. Each time a girl opens a book and reads a womanless hist

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2008 Women s History Month

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    2. 2008 Theme: Women’s Art: Women's Vision “The history of women and art is quintessential women’s history.  It is the story of amazing women’s accomplishments acclaimed at the time but written out of history.”

    3. National Women’s History Project Each time a girl opens a book and reads a womanless history, she learns she is worth less.                         – Myra Pollack Sadker “History helps us learn who we are, but when we don’t know our own history, our power and dreams are immediately diminished.”

    4. 2008 Honorees Each year the National Women’s History Project (NWHP) honors women that serve as elements of awareness and change in history. This year, the theme of Women’s Art: Women’s Vision served “to honor the originality, beauty, imagination, and multiple dimensions of women’s lives.” “To ensure that a diversity of art and artists are represented, the 2008 Honorees were selected based on their art, their vision, their art form, their cultural background, the region in which they live and the quality and passion of the nomination submitted. ”

    5. Judy Chicago Born in 1939 in Chicago, IL Artist: Painter, Printmaker, Tapestry, and Needlework Author Feminist Educator Intellectual

    6. Harmony Hammond Born in 1944 Painter Writer Wrappings: Essays on Feminism, Art, & the Martial Arts Lesbian Art in America: A Contemporary History Received Lambda Literary Award Curator

    7. Edna Hibel Born in 1917 in Massachusetts Colorist Painter Stone Lithographer Serigrapher Etcher Sculptress Filmmaker

    8. Lihua Lei Born in 1966 in Taiwan Multimedia Installation “Lei is leading a movement that embraces disability as reflected through the work.  She is certainly redefining the possibilities for others with disabilities in breaking new ground.”

    9. Violet Oakley 1874-1961 Muralist Stained Glass Artist First woman to receive the Gold Medal of Honor from the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts

    10. Rose O’Neill 1874-1944 Illustrator Author Business Woman In 1917, admitted to the all-male Society of Illustrators in New York City.

    11. Faith Ringgold Born in 1930 in Harlem, New York Painter Quilter Writer Best known for her painted story quilts Her motto: “If One Can Anyone Can All You Gotta Do Is Try”

    12. Miriam Schapiro Born 1923 Print Painter “pioneer in feminist art who reevaluates roles assigned to women and art and society”

    13. Lorna Simpson Artist “With the African-American woman as a visual point of departure, Simpson uses the human figure to examine the ways in which gender and culture shape the interactions, relationships and experiences of our lives in contemporary multi-racial America. ”

    14. Jaune Quick-to-See Smith Born 1940 Painter Printmaker One of today’s most acclaimed American Indian artists

    15. Nancy Spero Born in 1926 Painter Social, Political, and Feminist activist

    16. June Claire Wayne Born 1918 in Chicago, IL Painter Lithographer Filmmaker

    17. Reference National Women’s History Project http://www.nwhp.org

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